The locusts do have a king, it turns out.

I've got nothing to say about Mr. Owen Wilson's situation save that I hope he gets well soon. In the meantime, Variety this morning demonstrates just what a warm, caring, compassionate entity Hollywood is with a prominent story headlined "Owen Wilson Projects In Question." The article's lede: "Owen Wilson's emergency hospitalization and recovery are throwing a major monkeywrench into production of two movies and causing marketing headaches for two more."

Ah, headaches and monkeywrenches. Damn these human beings and their failings for fucking up our marketing!

Mind you, I don't condemn Variety or its reporter Tatiana Siegel for this. They're just doing their jobs in a company town. And sometimes it's instructive to get such a vivid reminder of exactly what this business we call show really is.

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[rockandroller]

Other than that fairly predictable tack, I haven't seen a lot of the blogosphere trash talking this incident, which is surprising. I think when it comes to an incident like this, people sort of are horrified and just back away from it. Almost all of us have known someone who has attempted suicide, if not achieved their goal, and it is just tragic no matter who it is or how you look at it. It may actually be that one thing that is no laughing matter, though I'm sure Joan Rivers could find a joke in it.

[me]

I'm gonna go with that Owen Wilson was "researching a role."