The ones that are there now are really stinking up the joint.” Let them go fishing or someplace south, stick them on a farm somewhere, and get our country moving. I don’t wish anybody ill, but I think it would be a good thing to get a lot of people out of our government. “We got to take a big breath and move on and get out of this muck and mire. DeVito himself has referred to both the president and Democrats as “clowns” (except for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whom he hails as “a gift”).ĭeVito, who likes to listen to Democracy Now and is reading Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, says that he will campaign for Bernie Sanders, as he did in 2016, and that he’d like to see him run with Tulsi Gabbard. I tell him that Dumbo is well timed for the Trump era, when the circus, clown and elephant-in-the-room metaphors are flying thick and fast. So I sat down in a comfortable chair and I read it. “It said, ‘ Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino: Final Draft’. “A year later – and it was a long year – he finally showed up with 155 pages,” DeVito recalls. He bought a script sight unseen from a fledgling filmmaker in the 1990s because he had liked the young man’s first movie script and wanted to do whatever was next. And he has produced several, including Gattaca and Erin Brockovich. And by the way, it pleases me that I am called "Larry the Liquidator." You know why, fellow stockholders? Because at my funeral, you'll leave with a smile on your face and a few bucks in your pocket.DeVito has been in many great movies: LA Confidential, Tin Men, Get Shorty, Twins, Ruthless People, Man on the Moon, Romancing the Stone, Terms of Endearment, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Matilda and War of the Roses, which he also directed. And if anybody asks, tell 'em ya gave at the plant. And if it is, you'll create new jobs and provide a service for the economy and, God forbid, even make a few bucks for yourselves. Maybe, maybe you'll get lucky and it'll be used productively. You want to make money! You don't care if they manufacture wire and cable, fried chicken, or grow tangerines! You want to make money! I'm the only friend you've got. And lest we forget, that's the only reason any of you became stockholders in the first place. I don't make anything? I'm making you money. And our devoted employees, who have taken no increases for the past three years, are still making twice what they made ten years ago and our stock - one-sixth what it was ten years ago. We'll lower taxes, reduce water and sewer." Check it out: You're paying twice what you did ten years ago. Did this community ever say, "We know times are tough. For the last ten years this company bled your money. What will happen to them?" I got two words for that: Who cares? Care about them? Why? They didn't care about you. "We can't because we have responsibility, a responsibility to our employees, to our community. Let's have the intelligence, let's have the decency to sign the death certificate, collect the insurance, and invest in something with a future. Now how would you have liked to have been a stockholder in that company? You invested in a business and this business is dead. And I'll bet the last company around was the one that made the best goddamn buggy whip you ever saw. You know, at one time there must've been dozens of companies making buggy whips. And you know the surest way to go broke? Keep getting an increasing share of a shrinking market. For even if the prayers were answered, and a miracle occurred, and the yen did this, and the dollar did that, and the infrastructure did the other thing, we would still be dead. Where I come from, that particular prayer is called "The Prayer for the Dead." You just heard The Prayer for the Dead, my fellow stockholders, and you didn't say, "Amen." This company is dead. Because that's what you just heard - a prayer. Where I come from, you always say "Amen" after you hear a prayer.
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