Lest We Forget
This is another scene that symbolizes Tom Cruise’s escape from Scientology and the Fish Fetish rumors that have dogged his career. Neither Psychiatrists nor Scientologists could cure his Icthyphilia (love of fish). Katie has left Tom and taken their daughter. Getting her back will be Mission Impossible.
“The Simpsons” A Fish Called Selma (TV episode 1996)
Meanwhile, Marge and Patty try to tell Selma that Troy is just using
her, but she doesn’t want to admit it. She runs away to find Troy and
find answer to her questions.
Selma: [menacing] Is this a sham marriage?
Troy: Sure baby, is that a problemo?
— Fair enough, “A Fish Called Selma”
Selma: You _married_ me just to help you carreer?
Troy: You make it sound so sordid, look: don’t we have a good time
together?
Selma: Yes, but…
Troy: Don’t you have everything you ever wanted here? Money, security,
a big hot flat rock for Jub Jub?
— Just what everyone would want, “A Fish Called Selma”
Selma: But… don’t you love me?
Troy: Sure I do! Like I love Fresca. Isn’t that enough? The only
difference between our marriage and any one else’s is: we know
ours is a sham.
— When you look at it this way…, “A Fish Called Selma”
Selma: Are you gay?
Troy: Gay? I wish! If I were gay they’d be no problem! No, what I have
is a romantic abnormality, one so unbelievable that it must be
hidden from the public at all cost. You see…
Selma: Stop!
— Aw, we were just about to hear it all, “A Fish Called Selma”
Taken from the Simpsons.
First, there was Mel Gibson, who has forever ruined the Lethal Weapon movies by showing how closely he actually hews to Martin Riggs — only if Riggs were racist, anti-Semitic and a woman-hater. And unnaturally obsessed with blow jobs. (Maybe Riggs was all those things – it’s in the subtext.)
And now it’s Oliver Stone, beloved, iconic director of “Platoon” and “Wall Street”, who blamed the “Jewish domination of the media” for Americans demonizing Hitler and overrating the importance of the Holocaust. Let justice be done though the heavens fall, indeed!
I admit to being a little confused — why, when Ollie had the chance in “World Trade Center”, didn’t he reveal that 9/11 was all part of an Israeli/liberal-Jew conspiracy? Missed opportunity.
But why do our ’80s stars hate the Jews so much? If Jews run the media and Hollywood (and the banks), shouldn’t the likes of Gibson and Stone simply say “thank you,” and be on their way?
What’s next? Is Tom Cruise going to turn out to be anti-Semitic also? Oh, wait…