I will offer myself to the theatres for a small fee so that they can use me as a gauge of whether a play is boring or not. If I don't feel like sleeping, this means the play is very cool."

Vezhdi Rashidov, minister of culture

What could be more vulgar than the blockbuster mass-culture mediocrity relentlessly churned out by the Hollywood machine these days? The behavior of its so-called Talent.

Case in point: Robert Downey Jr.

"The fact that you get out of bed does not mean you have woken up."

Issue 38, November 2009