Nobody Still Doesn't Know Anything

FOTP News in Review for . . . Sunday, July 21st, 2024

The line, the real one, is William Goldman’s from Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.”

The same could be said for those who talk about the 2024 election.

The Sunday morning talk shows, which on their best days — and there aren’t a lot of those — leave the same impression on the body politic as does duck flatulence at a wastewater treatment facility, seemed particularly parenthetical and gratuitous, especially considering the breaking news that occurred just a few hours after the last one ended.

Slovenia's Tadej Pogačar won this year’s 2024 Tour de France for the third time.

I kid, of course. I’m talking about Xander Schauffele winning The British Open.

(Just because the English call it “The Open Championship” doesn’t mean the rest of us have to. We won the war, after all.)

Pogačar, incidentally, upon winning, said, “I’m out of words.”

It should only happen in America.

It won’t.

Which, all joking aside, is impossible these days, brings us to the hours before President Joe Biden fell on his aging but honorable sword. The announcement was the best news for Democrats but also the worst — the saddest. A good man, a very good president had just announced he didn’t have it anymore.

We start today, though, with someone who’s turning out to be the official voice of the sanctimonious and execrable and arrogantly ignorant