Question about
Broadcast News below; feel free to skip all the crap about Wells in the top half.
Clicking his "Meilissa Silverstein" link there, and reading backward through his trail of banal trivial controversies that he links to, I found some articles like
this one. Excerpt:
A-category women — especially the model-pretty, drop-dead glammies (be they rail thin or breathtakingly curvy and buxom) whom I categorize as triple-As and double-As — are often trouble and not worth the long-run grief. Because they know it’s not that hard to find a replacement at a drop of a hat and are therefore a bit more adjusted to the idea of trading up if push comes to shove. They’ll almost never admit this (even to themselves), but this is often how things work. ... Thank God for life’s exceptions (my last serious relationship was with a solid A and she was fine all around for the most part) but many A-category women (with the exception of A-minus types) are a handful — often with very pricey material expectations and wanting things to be as good as what they got from their well-to-do dads if not better"
This is like getting buttonholed by some blowhard at a party who comes on with unsolicited advice like, "Trust me, don't spend millions of dollars on a status-symbol yacht—it's not worth it" as a way of showing off, except here it's far worse because he's talking about human beings, and, and... not getting into all that.
The reason I'm posting is that I hate to see
Broadcast News and the Aaron character tainted with this kind of shit, and have to ask what the hell he's even talking about here—there's no such line in the film.
Jeffrey Wells wrote:Albert Brooks‘ character voiced the first in Broadcast News: “Always choose a woman who’s just hot enough to turn you on.” He could have continued by saying, “Reach a little bit higher than that and you’re flirting with trouble. Go much higher than that and you’re flat-out asking for it.”
I Googled a few variations of this "well-known quote" to double-check and found nothing but gross forums with guys exchanging locker-room-level relationship advice, which is where Wells probably belongs, though his posturing probably wouldn't fly in places like that. Even most really lazy misquotations and fabrications have some tiny kernel of truth to make them believable, but there's none whatsoever here, is there? Can this clown please stop acting like he knows things about cinema? He's making actual movies look bad here.