SONTAG AWARD NOMINEE

“Michael Eisner decides, ‘I can’t make a movie about Martin Luther King, Jr.-they’ll be rioting at the gates of Disneyland!’ That’s bullshit! But that’s what the new world order is. They control culture, they control ideas. And I think the revolt of September 11th was about ‘Fuck you! Fuck your order-‘ … The studios bought television stations. Why? Why did the telecommunications bill get passed at midnight, a hidden bill at midnight? The Arabs have a point! They’re going to be joined by the people who objected in Seattle, and the usual ten per cent who are against everything, and it’s going to be, like, twenty-five per cent of this country that’s against the new world order.” – Oliver Stone, as captured in this week’s New Yorker. Funny, but I haven’t heard bin Laden rail against Michael Eisner yet.