Gail: We will fight the energy cause forever, but I remain confident that future generations, trapped in an overheated, air-neutered world, will look back in horror at the time when the President of the United States said he didn’t “believe in global warming” and clarified oil drilling .
I suspect you have a second…
Brett: Second, I just don’t think everyone disagreeing with Trump will accomplish anything. Like it or not, you and I and the rest of America are locked into this movie theater for the next four years. Go through the popcorn.
Gail: We may be stuck with him, but we have to keep fighting the good fight. I have to admit that I started going to the movies alone, in the middle of the afternoon, to avoid Trump. Watching the Bob Dylan biopics was a great distraction from the nominated cabinets.
Have you seen anything good lately? Yes, I am trying to change the subject.
Brett: On the flight to California, I watched “Reagan,” the biopic starring Dennis Quaid as the 40th president. The movie was so misconceived, so poorly acted, so imbecilically scripted, and so moronically executed that it briefly turned me, a Reagan fan, into a communist. But I’d love to see a Dylan biopic, along with “The Brutalist,” which I hear is awesome.
And speaking of awesome, Gail, be sure to read on Andy Webster Obituary for Jules FeifferThe Great Village Voice Cartoonist, who died earlier this month at 95. I can’t say I’ve always been on board with Feiffer’s politics, but I’ve always loved his honesty, his originality, his wit and playfulness. He captured my kind of people: smart, neurotic, worried, confused, unmistakably Jewish New Yorkers. And he never left. When asked last year after publishing a high school graphic novel if he had a new project, he replied: “What a silly question. Of course.”
