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...know it's a meta, meta world we live in when even Bill Clinton is asking the public to believe that "The media did it." The blame for the Lewinsky mess, says the President of the United States, lies with circulation-driven newsmongers and that devil Kenneth W. Starr. Painting himself as the victim of the media, Clinton claims that he is the one who has been wronged...
...television, we care less about Ally McBeal's clients--however intriguing older women who fall in love with 18-year olds and guys who have a fetish for women's feet are--than for our favorite legal professional. We are, indeed, more cynically meta today than we have been in decades. Though Chicago the Musical had to take a second seat to the warm and fuzzy Oklahoma when it debuted on Broadway in the mid-1970s, the show-that-hams-it-up-because-it's-a-show won the 1997 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical...
...still think there's a certain wish for sincerity that cuts through. After all, Jerry Maguire is about an agent who finally finds his heart, and its Oscar went to the dancing football player who isn't afraid to get sentimental about the kwan. This pendulum swing back from meta-gazing helps to explain the success of the gooey, sunset-flooded Titanic and its Celine Dion title song. Of course, we're not returning to the El-Cid era of filmmaking in which we're expected to throw our hearts immediately into the valiant Charleston Heston's 11th-century siege...
...emergence of Yu and Marler as themselves in the Cafe scene, which, since it veers down into meta-self-referentiality, might have been disgusting. They discuss the writing of # as well as other "weighty," matters, including all the "L.B."s (read:lbs.) in REM's "It's the End of End of the World As We Know...
...point that I'm making is basically that meta is bettah," she said during a question and answer session after the lecture...