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"Bad news: Ayn Rand’s Alas Shrugged– sales of which are booming — is going to become a movie, starring Angelina Jolie, who will channel her father’s conservative politics and dip as deeply as she can into the shallows of her own politics of narcissism to portray the doorstopper’s protagonist Dagny Taggert, witness to the ubermensch John Galt. The conservative National Review has convened a symposium to discuss what might be considered in reactionary circles “The Rand Problem.” On the one hand, she portrayed capitalism as literally more thrilling than orgasms; on the other, she displaced the cross with the dollar sign."
Oh, joy. For a fun Saturday night, rent The Fountainhead with Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper.
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