alright let's get a constitutional crisis up in this bitch
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Jetsons reboot.
As I watched the last half of The Towering Inferno I kept wondering, "Where did O. J. Simpson go?" Billed as one of the stars—chief of security in a huge burning building he had a big moment early in the movie when he snapped to Paul Newman, "Damn it, man, get that ambulance!" (When was the last time anybody spoke to Paul Newman like that?) And then O.J. saved a kitten from a smoking apartment. O.K. O.K. And then O.J. disappeared. For a good hour and a half he was nowhere to be seen. Maybe it just seemed that long, because the inferno was so boring, but I know he was missing for half the movie. ...I hope O.J. is not pleased to have been involved.I haven't seen O.J.'s other movie, The Klansman, but all the reviews said it was thoroughly rotten, and none of them suggested that O.J.'s performance was in any way a redeeming feature, so I don't see how O.J.'s performance can have been very good.None of which would bother me if O.J. had not said he might cut his football career short in favor of acting. Joe Namath has said the same thing, and Jim Brown actually did it. I would now like to state two hard truths. One: O. J. Simpson, Joe Namath and Jim Brown all play or used to play football so well as to make you feel good all over. Two: as actors, they aren't diddly. Brown, who has been at it longest, does have a certain screen presence, which succeeds only in making me feel that I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley. O.J. is a smooth, agreeable figure on TV sportscasts, but how many more of those do we need?I don't mind these guys making some extra money and lining up a career to fall back on when they can't play anymore. And I realize that football is harder on the limbs than acting. But becoming a real actor may be harder on the psyche than football is on the body. No one would stand for actors being given easy roles in football games.There seems to be an assumption that O.J. is really making it now because he is in the movies. But if a hot young poet or doctor or politician quit to go into bad movies, we would say tsk tsk. (Come to think of it, though, when was the last time anybody said tsk tsk about anything?) If a man can still carry a football brilliantly and chooses to act indifferently instead, he is depriving the world of great moments. Being a great running back or quarterback is a fairly high calling. It raises the country's tone. Taking part in overblown schlock movies is a low calling.
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