"The old-fashioned rock star has gone the way of the dodo and the dinosaur. Never again will we have another crazy-as-all-getout Axl Rose, another Jim Morrison who mistakes himself for a poet and has the hypnotic ability to convince a substantial audience it is so, or another Bob Dylan who changes the way a generation sees itself and the world."

"But between Internet piracy, the fact that huge markets like China tend to disobey IP protocols, and a foolhardy tendency of studios to make unwise, profit-sharing deals with bankable talent, movies are not making money the way they used to or the way they should. And now that any old anybody with opposable thumbs can operate a digital camera, international markets have found they favor the locally produced fare over yet another sequel to "Rush Hour." Bombay prefers Bollywood to Hollywood."

"Though Wurtzel laments a de-emphasis on “talent” in pop music, she has not a single qualitative statement to make about a single contemporary film––she’s simply concerned that studios are making more money off their back catalogs than new releases, and that foreign territories “have found they favor the locally produced fare over yet another sequel to Rush Hour.”