Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Time 100 for '05

Time has once again released their list of the most influential people. We get the usual:Dalai Lama, George W. Bush etc. etc. Here are some of the people I was pleasantly suprised to see make the list.
Builders + Titans
Bram Cohen - BitTorrent Creator - Fuck you Hollywood.
Artists
The Halo creative team
Jon Stewart
Jamie Foxx
Zhang Ziyi
Johnny Depp

Whose on the list that shouldn't be? I like Hilary Swank, I liked Million Dollar Baby, but this is a woman who wakes from a mediocre film stupper every few years to make a good movie. If the title of the list is indicitive of its content, where are the filmakers who truly took risks and infulenced their peers last year? Don Cheadle and Javier Bardem both gave moving truthful performances last year. Adn how about the creative team of Arrested Development. At the Emmy's they showed us that dispite poor ratings, they are the sitcom's saving grace. These kind of lists can be a chance to show the world the marvelous contriubutions of its artists and others. It seems; however that most of the time it dissolves into an ass-kissing feastival. Better luck next year.

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