Living in the future
It’s usually Peter’s job to provide the glimmering Edelstein sentences, but I’d like to submit this one: “Who’da thunk when Meryl Streep won her Oscar for Sophie’s Choice that 25 years later she’d be capering fatuously to Abba songs while, next door at the multiplex, Batman would be reenacting Götterdämmerung?”
It’s not only a great sentence, it’s a good question. It is a trippy future we’re living in, just not the one we expected. We don’t have the flying cars, but we do have Wagnerian comic books for movies. Who would have thunk it?
Any nationally known journalist who can not only get away with starting a sentence “Who’da thunk…” but do it in such a way that it’s actually impressive — and then cap it by including the words “capering fatuously” in the same sentence — well… Wrong as he might be about Dark Knight, my hat’s off to Mr. Edelstein.
— Peter Suderman · Jul 18, 10:57 PM · #