Where has all the humor gone eh ?. Remakes of PINK PANTHER movies ---You hacve got to be joking! ho hum- are we dumb : short of ideas; living in the past and not admitting to it? . The absence of the authorPETER SELLERS is a timely reminder of how authorship and originality is usually the key spark in creative enterprise.
money and markets are sometimes mere pawns in the face of genuine creativity, so why do the majority worship them ?
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We hear too much of the brilliance of marketing and too little of the brilliance of authors . Maybe you know some movies with that theme we can add here. It doesn't matter how many millions you throw at an idea, if the creator is not the key the stuff can be crap .
Authorship - why do we seems to be losing respect for it. Without the author you may have nothing but hot air and mere seking after that illusive spark. New things often in their very nature are cheap and unvalued -its a reality of life that its spiritual and not entirley material -its where worship of markets and marketing really misses the point . The curse of the pink panther had all the big names in it, but it missed the vital ingredient - the creative element that comes from one man who was not in it. Is Steve Martin and the men driving the remake risking a deep insult to their industry and a basic principle of respect for authorship?


We know we are in trouble when the film industry thinks the future is in remakes . The future is in authors . But don't leave the future to the sycophants or waste your time with revisionists. get reality ( see GHANDI below)

The original PINK PANTHER MOVIES are now out on DVD. While the gags come slower than most of us moderns would prefer, I found myself wondering how these movies got a PG rating ? They are not suitable for children as the adults are behaving like children --rebelling against what is now more recognised by that generation as unacceptable attitudes. Boy we have become more conservative in the last 20years!. What do you think ?


Want to watch something really great "GHANDI -with BEN Kingsley . A one man lesson on the impact of ideas in history . An Indian talking to the west about what he considers their best ideas - Its a reality check, not only for keen christians but all theose in west who want to know more clearly what's best about their history of ideas ---Anyone who takes the words of Jesus seriously, as he tried to do . I found the story Absolutely fascinatingly but then its the first time i've seen it -I am a bit slow perhaps ?