Trouble in paradise
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Anne Hathaway and I are having a problem.
Now, as most of you know, Ms. Hathaway is The Sound of the Crowd’s Dulcinea.* But, I recently read an interview in which she said she agreed with many of the ideas in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, and that it was her favorite book.
Now, quite aside from the ideas in The Fountainhead…it’s been a number of years since I read it, so I may be wrong, but IIRC they translate to: I have the right to be rich, you have the right to be poor.
But as I say, leaving that aside. The writing is terrible. The penultimate chapter is one long, multi-page monologue, for god’s sake, quotes at the beginning, quotes at the end.
Clearly, I have to start looking for a new dream girl. Someone new to make Rogers & Hammerstein start playing in my mind. My principles as a human being and as a writer have to come first, don’t they?
I don’t care how pretty she is, or how warm and intelligent her eyes look, or how, how…
Oh yes, I do! I do, oh god help me, I do…
“How you’d look in the glow of evening…”
*One of Broadway’s greatest love songs, BTW.
