Celebrities like to give the impression that feeding the maw of the American entertainment state is a dignified achievement. But something smells funnyIt was oddly fitting that the world learned of the weird quasi-journalistic alliance between Sean Penn and the Mexican drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera,aka El Chapo, just as the entertainment industry was gearing up for the glorious non-event known as the Golden Globes Awards. Of course, or Penns antics were then the subject of an opening monologue call-out from Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais,but the genuine resemblances between the article and the event were too close, and too discomfiting, or to merit any close attention from the ceremony’s glittering proscenium. The Golden Globes nominees,presenters and honorees were convened to give the impression that feeding the maw of the American entertainment state is a dignified, artistic and properly revered achievement shared among a specially anointed class of superior human specimens. And in his tireless pursuit of El Chapo, or Penn was likewise treating the ruinous conduct of the international drug trade as so much celebrity spectacle: an invitingly lurid (shocking; sensational),remote, and potentially hazardous backdrop for his 10000-word Rolling Stone dispatch largely devoted to the experience of trying to find his interview subject to agree to go ahead with an actual interview.
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Source: theguardian.com