The temptation to escape your country in turmoil: Terrence Malick's wife on America and 9/11.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/terrence-malick-wife-september-11-to-the-wonder-369391

Having read the above article, I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly what went through the minds of Alexandra Wallace and her famed filmmaker husband Terrence Malick (someone whose reputation will always rest on his 1970s films BADLANDS and DAYS OF HEAVEN, regardless of his later work following roughly two decades of retirement).

Are they the type of showbiz people who want to escape the USA when it's in turmoil a la celebs who talked about moving to, say, Switzerland during the Vietnam War?

Or do the Malicks think the Canada of 2012 is a sufficient panacea even considering its Rightward drift over the last 11 years (from not heeding Bush 43's call to Iraq to Canada pulling its embassy out of Iran)?

Sampling of links to articles on 10th anniversary of 9/11.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/9-11-first-responders-left-10th-anniversary-event-142149351.html


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/30/9-11-10th-anniversary-george-w-bush-new-york-city_n_913969.html
 
[NEW YORK magazine's Encyclopedia of 9/11]
http://nymag.com/news/articles/wtc/
 
[From the issue of THE NEW YORKER published after 9/11]
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/09/24/010924ta_talk_wtc
 
http://www.thenation.com/blog/163112/did-911-change-you

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/04/140172828/ten-years-later-flight-93-memorial-still-unfinished

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/09/12/110912taco_talk_remnick

SPRINGSTEEN TRIBUTE #2--LONESOME DAY

Wish I could get more excited about Joe Wilson and Ellen being chosen as AMERICAN IDOL judge.

[Before proceeding with this insignificant post, let's take a moment to remember the people who were victims of unspeakable terrorism in New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania eight years ago today.]

Received an e-mail from MoveOn. Haven't opened it, but I'm sure it's asking me to make donations by using Wednesday's outburst from Joe Wilson (acolyte of legendary racist Strom Thurmond aka the Man Who Gave Us Spiro Agnew As Vice President, among other sins) as a fund-and-consciousness-raising tool.

Wilson said what he said. He's foolish--and it's time to move on and not make his bricklike obstructionism an endless media topic which distracts from the real concern post-Wednesday's speech: what President Obama's truly willing to stand for in terms of creating the final health care legislation.

On to a much more trivial subject--Ellen DeGeneres as the "Nice Judge" for next year's AMERICAN IDOL. Leaving the "jump the shark" arguments aside, Fox and 19 Entertainment have essentially signaled that continuing IDOL as a broad-based "television show" is more important than hiring a mainstream celeb who actually has some music biz experience.

For that matter, someone like David Hasselhoff (who works for Simon Cowell on AMERICA'S GOT TALENT)--with a former big-star-in-Germany recording career--would have been a more appropriate choice.

And probably with a lower price tag per season than Ellen.