Last night on my way home from a Christmas party, I drove past a theater showing The Interview. The film was over and a fleet of TV camera trucks was outside, interviewing everyone in sight. There were no reports of terrorist activities. Sony seems to be doing good business with the movie today. Whatever concerns anyone had about the First Amendment being crumpled by the temporary unavailability of this one movie seem to be calmed. Am I the only one who thinks this whole matter — which only days ago seemed to be threatening the American Way of Life — was much ado about very little? And doesn't something smell a little fishy about the claim that the whole Sony hacking was North Korea's retaliation against a film that maligned their beloved leader and glorified the idea of murdering him?
No, I'm not suggesting Sony staged anything to promote this movie. And I'm certainly not suggesting the corporation hasn't been damaged and many of its employees embarrassed and inconvenienced by the hacking of their computer network. I'm just thinking this is a more pedestrian (and perhaps non-Korean) crime that took an odd turn when it became all about the movie.
I awoke this morn to messages telling me of a nice review of my new book, The Art of the Simon & Kirby Studio. Read the review here, then order the book here.
And that's about it from here. Hope you all have a fine day today. Which is not to suggest you can't also have a fine day tomorrow and the day after and the day after and…