Day: March 17, 2003

I guess it’s a slow newsday on the Hollywood beat, since CNN has a story about the supposed Superman curse — you know, everyone from George Reeves to Christopher Reeve who ends up playing Superman or being associated with a movie or television series ends up getting killed or having some horrible disease, etc.

They left out the worst incident, though, in which his role as Superman apparently led Dean Cain to have delusions that he could actually act.

(Gee, I can’t wait for the sequel to such fine cinema as Dragon Fighter).

NPR’s Juan Williams has a long interview with writer Walter Mosley about Mosley’s new book about America’s response to terrorism, What Next. The only problem is that Mosley is clearly living in an alternate world where the only difference between, say, Cuba and the United States is one of minor economic issues.

Moreover, the interview is filled with inanties such as this bizarre exchange between Williams and Mosley about why the United States should remove Saddam Hussein. Mosley argues that unless the U.S. can tie Hussein directly to the 9/11 attacks, there’s no reason to get rid of him,

Juan Williams: The connection [between Hussein and terrorist attacks] would be that he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and possibly letting them fall in to the hands of terrorists who are the enemies of America.

Walter Mosley: We developed the weapons of mass destruction that crashed into the World Trade Center. They were our jets.

Mosley might want to stick to writing novels.