In Nick de Semlyen’s book The Last Action Heroes, a stellar survey of late 20th century Hollywood’s musclebound, killing-machine megastars who blew up bad guys as often as they blew up budgets and box office receipts, the author includes this vignette regarding Sylvester Stallone’s comedy bomb, Oscar:
Stallone’s first pure comedy since Rhinestone wasn’t a great match for his talents, requiring him to hustle relentlessly around a mansion set, upstaged by a succession of scene-stealers… When the high-energy farce test-screened in early 1991, reaction cards put an end to any wishful thinking that this would prove to be another Twins [an Arnold Schwarzenegger hit]. One viewer scrawled in pen on their card: ‘Why didn’t he take his shirt off and kill anybody?’
The moral of this Tinsel Town story?
First: life is short, so don’t watch Oscar.
Second: it is better to meet than to subvert the public’s expectations.
This is an important lesson for those seeking public office in today’s topsy-turvy political world. The public has experienced momentous tumult in terms of issues ranging from illegal immigration to abortion and has even seen in a chaotic matter of days the attempted assassination of a former president, the end of an incumbent president’s reelection campaign, and the ostensible nomination of his vice president to lead his party’s ticket. The very last thing the public needs is more surprises. […]
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