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To: paret who wrote (8936)	8/8/2002 7:48:03 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Respond to of 48461

If I would have been with her, that milk would have been poured on that head of that low intelligence quotient moron..... I can see the arrest report, assault by a bottle of breast milk. Why, as Americans, do we allow this crap? BTW, I read an interview of Clint Eastwood this morning, and he thinks Americans are becoming a PC wuss society. I agree. Q. Director Don Siegel once said that you not only didn't mind giving your characters anti-social traits, sometimes you insisted on it. But you showed other sides, too. A. Oh yeah, absolutely. You balance it. But everybody is so fearful nowadays. They'd rather just make it all in the norm of the wuss society, instead of going with what your feelings are. You know, in "Dirty Harry," some critics complained that we were racist, because some of the criminals Harry arrested were black. But actually, when Don [Siegel] and I were casting it, we took black guys in the stunt workers union deliberately, to give them credits and get them started. Q. Where does the wuss factor come from? Has it gotten worse? A. Who knows where it came from? Everybody gets defensive about things. Take the way they handle terrorists in movies these days. You've got to make [the villain] a neo-Nazi. You've got to take some old tired neo-Nazi group out of the Idaho panhandle. You can't do anything that's current, because God forbid you should insult somebody. We're just afraid to say what we might be thinking. Q. Great drama doesn't work that way: Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill . . . A. Take the plays of O'Neill. Those were driven by a guy wanting to tell a point of view and make them truthful. Now Hollywood's scared of its own shadow. That's why it's so easy to make "Spider-Man." Not that there's anything wrong with that. Make cartoons, have fun, do whatever. I was raised on "Snow White" and "Pinocchio." But don't be afraid to do straight-on subjects. And don't be afraid to make them socially relevant -- or irrelevant. Make them whatever you want them to be. chicagotribune.com