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Tuesday, 2002 December 24, 16:37 — cinema, economics

some spine, man!

This week KTEH showed a Lovejoy episode in which the owner of a splendid collection of Jewish antiques is made to crawl for having acquired it by bartering food and supplies to the ghetto of Cracow during the war. Heaven knows I don’t watch Lovejoy for profundity (Q.: Why the heck do you watch it? A.: Quiet, you.) but still – where in pop entertainment is any character with the character to stand up and say, “If you think my profit was excessive – and of course it was high, which is why I risked my life and reputation – you should encourage and honour the smuggler, so that in the next war there will be more of us, to drive prices down. But I suppose the moral thing, in your eyes, would have been to let people starve, and let all this fine work be melted down by the Nazis.”

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