Joseph R. Cooper: Who's this guy? Douglas "Swish" Reemer: He's my entertainment lawyer. He's helping me with my movie contract. Joseph R. Cooper: Now you're such a big shot you're gonna act in a Hollywood movie? Fucking sellout.
Edward Nygma: [during his introduction of "The Box"] Now, you can be a part of the action. Witness the entertainment in your living room. [presents "The Box"] Edward Nygma: The Box, in every home in America, and one day, the world.
[chastising a major actress] Traci Levine: Thank God she's leaving! Andrew: Can you believe Entertainment Weekly called her "the new sweetheart of American cinema?" Traci Levine: That cunt? She made Julie take my table because she thought I hadn't bathed recently - like she should talk. Did you see her eat? Andrew: Yeah. Did you check out her legs? Now I know why they call 'em calves. Christian Markelli: I bet after sex, she smokes a ham. [Lila appears] Lila Montagne: Darling, give me a glass of Cuvée. I do hope we're not speaking disparagingly about our clientele. Gossip is so ignoble, especially regarding those less fortunate. Traci Levine: Less fortunate, that bitch? Andrew: You know somethin', tell! Lila Montagne: No, I would never... tell tales such as... with the frequency she does it, the poor child must think that binging and purging are aerobic exercise. Christian Markelli: She hardly looks bulimic! Lila Montagne: Yes, if I were a different sort, I'd suggest a little more of the purging and a little less of the binging.
In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.
I read that Monica Seles got stabbed. And although I have nothing against Monica Seles, I'm glad somebody in sports got stabbed. I like the idea of it; it's good entertainment. If we're lucky, it'll spread through sports. And show business, too! Wouldn't you like to see a guy jump up on stage and stab some famous singer? Especially a real shitty pop singer? Maybe they'll even start stabbing comedians. Fuck it, I'm ready! I never perform without my can of mace. I have a switchblade knife, too. I'll cut your eye out and go right on telling jokes.
It's not just another reality show. It brings back variety, very high production values and family entertainment. There isn't anything like it – you can't compare it to the X Factor.
Bullworth: What is it exactly you're concerned about, Murphy? Dennis Murphy: I'm concerned that you stood up in front of three hundred people in a black church and told them that they were not a factor and never would be as long as we remain in the pocket of the insurance lobby! I'm concerned that you went to a fundraiser in Beverly Hills and told various leaders of the entertainment industry that they make a lousy product, and since many of them also happen to be Jewish, you decided the PRUDENT thing to do would be to MOCK their Jewish paranoia! I'm concerned that we are in an after-hours club in Compton on the eve of the most important event of the campaign swing, where God knows how much illegal activity is taking place and YOU are SMOKING MARIJUANA! Now, Senator - I work for you. You call the shots. But I will be able to do my job so much better if you will just simply tell me... what is this new strategy? Just tell me a little bit! [Bulworth exhales smoke into Murphy's face] Bullworth: Have a drink, Murphy. Live your life.
Governor: You're the only man I know that somehow maintains the respect & admiration reckless teens *and* the Highway Patrol. You know the entertainment monkey business Webb, and you could interface with the Legion of State Task Forces with their pitiful self interests exposed in a film such as this. Webb Wilder: Sounds about as fun as a root canal.
[from "MTV Diary: Aaliyah"] want people to remember me as a full-on entertainer and a good person.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained
Morris Weissman: You're providing a lot of entertainment for nothing. Ivor Novello: Morris... I'm used to it.
I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.
John Aboud: Ice T, in a very innovative form of entertainment suicide has agreed to do a rap song with David Hasselhoff. Paul F. Tompkins: Stop now before it's too late.
It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in good faith and without bombast, that art could morally influence the world. Today, the idea has largely been dismissed, as it must in a mass media society where art's principal social role is to be investment capital, or, in the simplest way, bullion. We still have political art, but we have no effective political art. An artist must be famous to be heard, but as he acquires fame, so his work accumulates 'value' and becomes, ipso-facto, harmless. As far as today's politics is concerned, most art aspires to the condition of Muzak. It provides the background hum for power.
Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen's younger, more attractive boyfriends.
It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot.
You're my life now.
[about Zack Carey who's driving a Ferrari] James Smith: What is he? Pimp? Only people I know got pimp cars are pimps. Nomi Malone: He's the entertainment director. James Smith: That's exactly what I said - he's a pimp!
There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.
I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right?
We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.
Panem et circenses.
Vergn
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.
Audiences see personalities on shows interacting with wild animals as if they were not dangerous or, at the other extreme, provoking them to give viewers an adrenaline rush. Mostly, the animals just want to be left alone, so it
Entertainment is business: the business of fucking art in the face.
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and function and nothing is left out of place. Storytelling is thus at a discount and like everything else in a world ruled by the laws of exchange value, literature is required to submit itself to the requirements of the market and must learn, like any other commodity, to adapt and serve needs that lie outside of itself and its concrete value. It is forced to stand not for itself but for an ideological cause of one sort or another, whether it be political, social or literary. It cannot exist for itself: like everything else it has to be justified. And for this very reason the power of storytelling is automatically devalued. Literature is reduced to the status of complimentary utilitarian functions: as a pastime to provide distraction and entertainment, or as a heightened activity that would claim to explore 'great truths' about the human condition.
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment.
Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure
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