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A review of ‘State of Fear’
Somewhere in a bar in West Hollywood sits a “Big Time Media Agent” drunkenly explaining to his bartender how screwed he is. It seems that he’s Michael Crichton’s Agent, and he didn’t vet his clients most recent book before publishing, assuming as any of us would, that its automatically “Hollywood gold” because of course, “Michael Crichton wrote it”.
Then someone drops the bomb and tells him the book has two evil protagonists First, an Environmentalist Lawyer and second and far worse, A bloviating actor who “plays the president on a weekly TV show” and drives with great pride, an electric car! Worse still, most of what is made out as laughable by the author is the idiocy that makes up the sanctimonious liberal ‘for a cause’ culture that makes up much of the free time of the Hollywood elite.
Lawyers always suffer at the hands of Michael Crichton, if you’ll remember the scene in Jurassic Park where “The Lawyer” while sitting in a toilet, is eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
I remember the scene because the audience I was with, clapped.
You can make a movie or have a TV show about lawyers, it happens all the time. You can generate thousands of miles of footage about the evil “military industrial complex”, you can have all priests portrayed as pederasts, all cops as crooks and all ex-military types are Nutcase-Rambo-Time-Bombs, but you cannot under any circumstances make fun of “Hollywood Actors” as they go about making the world safe for us common people to live in.
I applaud Michael Crichton for writing a book that dares Hollywood to make it into a movie. However, if there’s a buck in it, they will try, only they will do to him what they did to Tom Clancy on “Sum of All Fears” where they changed the evil characters into safe to hate “Neo-Nazi’s” from the politically incorrect ‘Palestinian Terrorists’. Clearly the potential loss of market share in the middle-east vs. the potential loss of market in Hayden Lake Idaho had something to do with this decision.
This book is guaranteed to really piss some people off. If you are someone who takes the doctrine of environmentalism seriously, you might try reading something less inflammatory, like Ann Coulter instead. There is simply nothing for you in this book as there is nothing in the Da Vinci Code for the serious Catholic.
This is a book of heresy to the followers of the holy church of “mother earth” and my Birkenstock brothers are likely to take after Mr. Crichton with a pitchfork the way they did to Bjorn Lomborg. |
