{"id":79361,"date":"2021-08-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79361"},"modified":"2021-08-27T11:34:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T16:34:44","slug":"dear-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79361","title":{"rendered":"Dear Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

To: Hollywood
From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant and Lapsed Movie-Goer
Re: Planning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Moguls, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get an option in on this story<\/a>. Stat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And don’t put some moron who cut his\/her teeth writing comic book movies on the job of writing the screenplay; the story calls for someone of David Mamet’s stature and talent. Nothing less. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t f*** this one up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(NARRATOR: “Hollywood will f*** this one up”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE: And in case anyone tries to morph some credit over to the civilian and\/or military chains of command?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis Herculean effort couldn\u2019t have been done without the unofficial heroes inside the airfield who defied their orders<\/strong> to not help beyond the airport perimeter by wading into sewage canals and pulling in these targeted people who were flashing pineapples on their phones,\u201d Mann said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Which brings up a troubling question: if one must defy orders to do the right thing, what does that do for unit cohesion and morale? The authority of the chain of command? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hidden in this one bit of scarce good new is a lot of really awful stuff for the future of this nation’s institutions. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To: HollywoodFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant and Lapsed Movie-GoerRe: Planning Dear Moguls, Get an option in on this story. Stat. And don’t put some moron who cut his\/her teeth writing comic book movies on the job of writing the screenplay; the story calls for someone of David Mamet’s stature and talent. Nothing less. Don’t f*** […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,439,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-the-afghan-debacle","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79365,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79361\/revisions\/79365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}