My cousin Susan Blair Ross is a Broadway star. She is smart as a whip. She was the person who first suggested I move to Hickory Valley. I had absolutely no interest in Diane, Princess of Wales, until she encouraged me to sit down and watch a series of videos she had made of interviews with Diane. I changed my mind. There was a woman who understood how to shift power and money in the service of people and a better world.
So when cousin Susan suggested to me that George Clooney was
something more than just another handsome actor, I was skeptical. However, knowing that she is always right about these things, I started to watch George Clooney movies. By the end of Syriana, I had become a serious Clooney fan. I just saw his latest, Michael Clayton, and my respect for Clooney is over the top.
No one has ever succeeded in communicating the weirdness of trying to navigate inside the Tapeworm better than Clooney. His movies ought to be mandatory curriculum in America’s business and laws schools.
Phil:
Grok the model!
Big 🙂
Catherine
Now, if Cloony’s character had taken the $10 million, started a foundation, and run for office with the ongoing support of U North, it would have been even better. The foundation would do screened social investing, mostly in U North Stock. Grants would to go find a cure for cancer.
A propos of getting accurate information being important to create a realistic map (rather than of George), here’s a post from Google Blog about Google Earth’s potential for educating people about how coal mining is devastating the Appalachian landscape: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/you-are-connected-to-mountaintop.html
This post reminded me how sometimes narrative fiction can illustrate what’s going on in a more powerful compelling way than nonfiction.
One drama I’d encourage all to seek out is A Very British Coup, done back in the ’80s or maybe early ’90s. Watching, contemplating this superb series gave me a framework for understanding the kinds of things Catherine talks about here in a way economic articles have never been able to do.