Lord Ha Ha

Whenever he's not busy making one of his rotten little films that people mistake for class (Midnight Express, The Killing Fields, Chariots Of Fire), producer David Puttnam is shooting off his mouth about how bad everyone else's films are.

In his latest jag, he claims Hollywood is "fueling a culture of bullying in British schools." (Maybe that's so across the pond--in America, the general trend over the past 15 years has been less violence among teens, less drug use and less STDs.)

Lord Puttnam (personally I think titles of nobility help support bullying) goes on to urge filmmakers to "think far more deeply about the impact of their work on broader society."

Please don't.

It's my experience that most filmmakers are barely qualified to entertain me. Don't screw up everything by trying to morally instruct me on top of that.