GHOST WRITER : Looks Could Kill

I don't know if Machiavelli would approve of theater about two Prime Ministers - former and present - fighting over the services of a writer as they moralize to the death, but I'm sure he'd consider it comedy. The fashion show of cinema has drawn Roman Polanski from the world of demons to news of Swiss politics. Yeah, it's, 'war on terror,' now and forever, til avalanche due us part. Thankfully, it's mostly down hill.

Politician: 'The worst thing about my life - it's so boring - I'm so out of touch.'

Writer: 'How does it feel to be so out of touch? How does it feel to be so hated... loved?' 

('Like an avalanche is loved hated?' thinks the writer...)

Of course politicians are actors that wrestle their egotism instead of reading and paying. Politicians should pay for spying don't you think? The taxes do that you say? They pay for the machines and algorhymthems? You can't be serious. The world's changed. Serving others by seeking royalties for government business is to be guilty of corruption. Secret Service should not mean self serving. Self service is private. A patriot of little else but pageantry and denial undoes his country through ignominious royalty. He feeds on deniability and makes glorious ignorant suspicions instead of capacities. I feel like period. You feel you me? A politician is like a child, he's merely punctuated, and so should be seen - not heard - unless of course he serves the greater artistry.

Enter : concept : ghostwriter.

A ghostwriter is a reporter who publicizes those who cannot tell their own stories because they've already been so wildly successful cheating others that they can't be trusted authorship for fear that they might cheat themselves and further frustrate a readership bordering on revolt. Very true, Roman Polanski, very true. God loves peace and is quite the ghostwriter. Ghostwriters don't threaten people, ghosts merely publish heros too stingy to admit that writing is the historian's art form.

Writer: 'Did you ever want to be a proper politician?'

Politician: 'Did you ever want to be a proper writer?'

Writer: 'Ouch. Ghosts are gentle spirits.'

John Belushi - good American - Tom Wilkinson - bad American. Not since Peter Seller's Clare Quilty, has the Brown Recluse been so stunningly portrayed on film. 'Bipolar relationships In A Multipolar World,' is perfectly ironic title for an artificial science, and therefore perfectly so pedantic a cover don't you think?

Way past the point where Google would take care of your ignorant paranoia with a single 'feeling lucky' button, there's a ghost in the machine making sure nothing gets blown and all that's black and white and red all over continues to be the news... Which would otherwise tend to be blue if not tragically black and bleakly capped like the North Sea.

When secretary has become walking stick, writer has become secretary, and prostitute has become publicist, the politician can play-act psychiatrist, priest, and whistleblower, and the ghostwriter can have an agent and the media a moon-raking union. Muck rakers used to expose the worst our society had to offer to dare the politician to form a more perfect union. Now, armed with late breaking news, politicians rake us like coal, oil, mandatory minimum sentences, breeding a more perfect state to unite coutry sides to traditions of justice and ignorance.

Machiavelli would be proud:'we had our disagreements,' (regarding mass murder), 'but we always stayed close,' some how encodes, 'the last guy committed war crimes - not me - I'm against that - anyway - he couldn't stand before my stunningly fair tribunal because he got what he had coming to him and now he's dead. So let's gather together in solemn continuity because war is officially civil before martial.'

Mr. Polanski has officially earned the right to direct operas... er, music videos.