Trash Has Given Us An Appetite For

Tasteful And Colossal Are - In Movies, At Least - Basically Antipathetic.

An Avidity For More Is Built Into The Love Of Movies. Something Else Is Built In: You Have To Be Open To The Idea Of Getting Drunk On Movies. (being Able To Talk About Movies With Someone -- To Share The Giddy High Excitement You Feel -- Is Enough For A Friendship.

At The Movies, We Are Gradually Being Conditioned To Accept Violence As A Sensual Pleasure. The Directors Used To Say They Were Showing Us Its Real Face And How Ugly It Was In Order To Sensitize Us To Its Horrors. You Don't Have To Be Very Keen To See That They Are Now In Fact Desensitizing Us.

Robert Redford ... Has Turned Almost Alarmingly Blond-he's Gone Past Platinum, He Must Be Into Plutonium; His Hair Is Coordinated With His Teeth.

In Show Business There's Not Much Point In Asking Yourself If Someone Really Likes You Or If He Just Thinks You Can Be Useful To Him, Because There's No Difference.