There is a saying that there is no such thing as Bad
Publicity. The speakers must be agents and advertisers who have nothing but a
monetary stake in whatever is getting the publicity good or bad. This week
Diane Keaton brought bad publicity and more bad publicity to her new movie Mad
Money. Diane dropped the F-bomb on Good Morning American by saying, (If she had
lips like Diane Sawyers,) "then I wouldnt have worked on my fucking
personality!" For those of you at home keeping score, that was Lips ONE,
personality: NULL. Her apology on Larry King essentially had her saying she was
not living in reality.
The premise of Mad money is that Keatons character finds all
her extensive wealth being repossessed. That is pretty low on the sympathy
scale. Next she gets a job at the Federal Reserve bank on the cleaning crew.
She and her fruitcake buddies (Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes) concoct a scheme whereby they steal old
money, Federal Reserve notes, about to be shredded. Nice idea, but in fact that
process is the highest of security in an office building already running on
high security. Full disclosure, I worked at several Midwestern Federal Reserve
branches pre -2001. Even then security was tight just in the office areas.
Anything having to do with money is protected by guards with loaded weapons.
Wait for this one to be played on the Superstation. {BB}
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