All I can say is: an infantile reality-TV star has been elected president of the United States and adult coloring books are booming in the literary market--anything is possible.
I may be kidding myself, but I find it hard to believe that if Brookhiser were in charge he would tolerate the infantile antics of "Corner" stars like Jonah Goldberg and the notorious "K-Lo".
Growing up during the 1980s in a desert of American popular culture featuring embarrassing or psychotic women and narcissistic or violent men, the miraculous possibility of the kind of woman I might seek to be appeared without warning when I discovered the old black and white films of the 1930s and 1940s, films made before Marilyn became a star in the infantile, regressive 1950s.
During the last 15 years, there have been at least a dozen sitcoms starring physically unattractive, infantile, selfish, dimwitted husbands (ugly babies, really), unconditionally loved by their beautiful, clever, kindhearted and competent wives.
Gervais also stars as David Brent, an insecure, infantile office boss, who wants to be popular with his employees, and who says at various times that he thinks of himself as the head of a family, a "chilled-out" entertainer, a comedian, and, so magnanimous is he to his charges, a foreign-aid worker.
In their infantile egocentrism, the faceless hordes of pop-music leeches lament the passing of their favorite stars as if the stars would really give a fuck if THEY died.
"The Pirate Movie" stars Kristy McNichol and Christopher Atkins in a cut-rate kiddie version of Gilbert and Sullivan, laced with synthetic pop ballads and leavened with infantile dirty jokes.
It is infantile arrogance.
