WRITING A BLOG or giving commentary of any kind is done at great risk...risk of losing friends, making enemies, and not being invited back to wherever-the-Hell you were when you saw an OX in need of being gored. Some of you out there may not be familiar with this expression which essentially means that something near and dear to you has been offended or judged to be crap by another, justly or unjustly, it does not matter.There is a difference, I have learned, between telling the truth and being hurtful or mean spirited. When you are talking about entertainers, public figures, and comedians, the law, and common usage gives you a lot more latitude to be funny at the expense of the "victim." They sure as Hell follow that principle in their work. Witness the Jay Leno monologs and the recent flurry of Weiner and Governator jokes. So when I write about the Nantucket Film Festival and a certain event, previously mentioned in another post, where story telling is not the long suit of folks who are otherwise quite talented in their chosen professions, I do it in the true Hollywood spirit. One must fully appreciate that if they make a film and it is reviewed by film critics in an uncomplimentary light and that is accepted as part of the package deal, standing on stage at a festival is license to those of us who fancy ourselves critics, to review and report what we see. And sometimes the OX gets gored.
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