100+ Guest Stars in Tales From the Crypt!
Tales From the Crypt premiered on this day in 1989. Hollywood legends, rock icons, a Terminator or two, Oscar winners, past and future James Bonds, and even a couple of adult stars all signed up for a twisted date with the Crypt Keeper.
Cate Blanchett losing Best Actress for TÁR (2022) to Michelle Yeoh is the kind of Oscar decision that ages worse every year. The performance is on the level of Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood (2007), and the Academy already knows it.
@MegKeene This shouldn't be a far stretch for @JewishBook and its patrons. Either way, the upfront investment for an imprint, one with a solid business case and a dozen titles to start, should be nominal. I have some ideas, might talk to some people.
Boomers are dying.
Old men have, for the most part, no connection to the younger generation, even with those entering middle age.
Incalculable consequences must follow. Better to see things as they are.
All told, the taste of the dad books was for successful mediocrity, either through perseverance or accumulative gains, both fantastic criteria that somehow fit the boomer generation's experience of longevity & prosperity, but also had some connection to the past of hard work or self-denial, even in an increasingly hedonistic age. Goodby to all that-
I think it's helpful to be remined of how life works. You will not have any of your opportunities or gifts taken from you just because your face is looking older now. When you remember this, it makes the concern about ones changing face dissipate. Sure your face is looking different, but your life/fate/track doesn't care what age you are, nor your weight, your color, your height, your gender, or the state of your face. Your gifts and talents remain, and the opportunities that are just for you will still keep coming. The only person that can push you off your own track is you.
@FACE_the_book if you want to read more.
@erikadreifus More can be said about this problem, which has less to do with AI than years of soft-skulled solicitude toward every possible cause except the cause of literature.
I ask again, albeit rhetorically, this time re #GrantaAIGate: if writing fiction doesn't give you joy, why do it in the first place? It's not like there is real money in it. And if it does, why cede the pleasure to AI?