The Orange Disaster Artist

The Orange Disaster Artist

In the motion picture The Disaster Artist, James Franco portrays one of the most outrageous, calamitous film makers ever known – well, in the company of Ed Wood, who is in turn fabulously interpreted by Johnny Depp – who has been so bad at his trade that, paradoxically, he has become a cult figure and there you are, he has made history in one of the best films of 2017, in a way, just like Donald J. now has a cult following and as Bill Maher and others have argued, he has transformed the Republican party into a machine wherein they all kiss the ass of the Big Shark, prostrate in front of the idol, the one who is the best, has ‘perfect calls’ even when he talks bribery and extortion, the One who can abandon Kurds and anyone else, give everything to Russia – indeed, his supporters have taken to wearing shirts which state that ‘they would rather be Russians than Democrats’ – so much for the old stance against adversaries, support for a strong defense…

The latest role model to emerge at and from the Impeachment Hearings is Doctor Fiona Hill, a sage, formidable, calm, brave woman who has talked about the stupidity of the Trump supporters – not directly though, but everything she has said indicates a ghastly IQ and abysmal lack of virtue and morals on that side of the aisle – that perpetrate, diffuse and spread Russian lies and conspiracy theories that serve them in dividing allies, creating a wedge between the US and its (former?) friends that would be so hard to fix- in an article in The Economist (the latest issue out at stands today) they describe the decades that would take for America to re-establish a damaged reputation in the Eastern part of Europe and everywhere, after this administration – the idiot at the very top and his henchmen – has been engaged in exactly the kinds of activities they used to advise others to stay away from – investigating political opponents, bribery and corruption…there was a ‘quid pro quo’!

Even my own country is affected by all this, for according to the same article in the Europe section, under the Dirty Mop heading, they mention that prosecutors investigating corruption – under the auspices of the acclaimed honored DNA, whose boss has been recently anointed as the Head of the European Prosecutor’s Agency or whatever the official name of the outfit would be – would have problems in cooperating with American agencies, given that from 2017, the policy of the US has moved away from targeting corruption…officials here have learned it seems to stay clear from statements about ‘the rule of law’ and instead insist on the new Transactional approach that is the new mark of the Trump administration, and they say that they need information and support from the US institutions to help American businesses enjoy a good business climate…

Doctor Fiona Hill was so tough even as a young girl that when a boy set her pigtails on fire, she used her hands to extinguish the fire and then continued with the test she had to take and she came across yesterday as fantastically more qualified, talented, impressive, articulate, concerned about the security of the US, wise and sensible than any of the donkeys asking her questions, from the republican side, who promote Putin’s version – first launched as he met with Orban, another weirdo, but not our own PM, who happens to have the same name and they are not related, it would be hard to be across the borders, especially when those two lands are not too fond of each other.

After all this tragic comedy, we can only look forward to the contemporary version of All the President’s Men, which for the movie version of the Travails of Rudy, Gordon, The three Amigos and the Ship of Fools they would have material for hundreds and hundreds and hours, ergo, a series with multiple episodes is more indicated…