April '08 Entertainment—Victoria Alexander's Viewpoint on Vegas Column

Back from China, The Lost World of Tibet, Book Review: “Bambi vs. Godzilla” UFO Contactee Billy Meier DVD, There is No Aviary – The X Conference says otherwise, and more...

“We have a whole religion based on one woman who really stuck to her story.”

Comedian Greg Giraldo on Comedy Central’s “Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil”

Lost World of Tibet. I’m a huge fan of Tibet and Tibetan culture. We were in China when the riots broke out in Lhasa. It is truly embarrassing to China as the country proudly prepares for the Summer Olympics in August. Everyone is honored and national pride is enormous.

The Times’ Andrew Billen reviewed two BBC Four shows, “Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe” and “Lost World of Tibet”. Here is what Billen wrote about Tibet.

“The 14th Dalai Lama is a merry old cove and his self-help books make sensible reading, but he will still go down in history as the man on whose watch Tibet was surrendered to a China dictator. The Lost World of Tibet (BBC Four) had the monk looking through remarkable colour film of prewar Tibet under the supervision of an almost entirely superfluous Dan Cruickshank. For those who romanticise old Tibet there were some shocks.

“It was a feudal theocracy run by 200 aristocratic families. Its capital, Lhasa, was the scene of one nutty ceremony after another. One starred the “dob dobs”, huge monastic police, padded like WWF stars, who bore long sticks and whips to intimidate a crowd of 20,000 monks who flooded the city for a festival. Proctors imposed fines on dirty houses and women wearing foreign shoes. One event, sky dancing, involved a young man climbing a mast and dancing on top of it, this as punishment for a rebellion by his fellow villagers several centuries ago. A third of the year was taken up with festivals, recalling Bing Crosby's song in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: “We're busy doing nothing, working the whole day through, trying to find lots of things not to do.”

“The Dalai Lama chuckled his way through most of all this. His sister-in-law was nearer the money. “We were so blind. We knew nothing of the outside world. We were just so engrossed in our little haunt we knew nothing of what was happening to the world and what could happen. So we lost our country.”

Is the Dalai Lama backlash beginning? His Holiness has been safely immune from criticism up until now.

Book Review. “Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business” by David Mamet. Published by Random House. Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages, On Sale: February 12, 2008. Price: $13.95. Format: Hardcover, 272 pages. On Sale: February 6, 2007. Price: $22.00

I have 20 books on screenwriting but none are written by screenwriters whose names you would know. I’ve never seen any of the authors’ names on film credits. One book is by a well-known “script doctor” who is handsomely paid to fix other people’s scripts.

David Mamet is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright as well as a director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, including Heist, Spartan, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy, Wag the Dog, and the Oscar-nominated The Verdict. He has written more than twenty plays including the terrific Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross.

Who doesn’t love the volatile, verbal anarchist Alec Baldwin played in the film version of Glengarry?

“Bambi” is highly entertaining, blunt (Titanic, Mamet says, was “unwatchable”), and seductively informative. If you want to know something about the process of screenwriting, Mamet knows how the Hollywood system works from being deep inside studio offices and stars’ trailers.

Mamet’s guidelines for writing a screenplay are simple and to the point.

My copy is well marked. Best of all, however, is Mamet’s writing style. It’s warm, friendly, and delves into a myriad of topics. Mamet can reference Larry David alongside Napoleon. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of every film ever made. He easily discusses Lenny Bruce, Diaghilev, Karen Horney, and the Egyptian pharaohs. He reminds us twice that the Hebrews were forced to find straw to make their allotment of bricks for the pharaohs monument-tombs. Mamet is still holding a grudge. Mamet is a proud Jew and sprinkles “Bambi” with Yiddish terms. He’s my kind of writer, weaving in all the things he finds interesting – whether or not they have anything to do with film.

Mamet knows every Ray Milland and Carole Landis – to name just two stars of the 40’s – movies. He’s seen every classic Black & White movie twice. He’s an authority on Al Jolson! If Mamet wants to showcase a cinematic theory, he goes all the way back to a Paul Muni movie.

Yes, Mamet has a jaded view of the Hollywood studio system. He calls American icon Dirty Harry “autistic” and can’t stand Laurence Olivier’s acting. To Mamet’s credit, filmmaking is a project that, without the crew, would never happen. He appreciates the technicians and crew members that build a film. He is the crews’ champion.

It’s called “Mamet-speak”. His dialogue is known for having a distinctive, rhythmic pace. Mamet is said to use a metronome during rehearsals to perfect the actors' delivery of his machine gun dialogue. (I have also noticed that Mamet favors manly women in his films. The severe Lindsay Crouse of House of Games comes quickly to mind.) However, there is no combative style in “Bambi”. Mamet writes in a colorful, “learn from me, I’ve been through it all” style. Mamet is a Hollywood survivor – with bruises.

Mamet lays out some principles of screenwriting (“violating the aesthetic distance”), directing (“the slate piece”), and the importance of casting. He describes the cruel process of auditioning that will surely heal those who think acting is a viable career.

“Bambi” is the kind of book you don’t stop reading. You will become a Mamet fan. Amazon.com: Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business: David Mamet: Books

The Silent Revolution of Truth. A capsule review of my DVD review. Jack Gerlach and Michael Horn's film “The Silent Revolution of Truth” is fascinating and a thorough examination of highly controversial UFO contactee Billy Meier and his claims about lifelong contact with ETs. I’ll admit it, I found it compelling. http://www.theyfly.com/

Billy’s first ET contact was Sfath from the planet Erra in the Pleiades. As a life coach, Sfath wasn’t much help in enhancing Billy’s personal life. He lost an arm in a silly accident and eked out a living as a farmer. A few financial predictions would have certainly helped Meier’s Mission in Life as a “Special Friend”.

If only the Plejarens could have whispered the name Osama bin Laden into Billy’s ear. So the ETs don’t give a damn about the U.S.

Can Meier’s ET mentors locate Paul Cézanne’s The Boy in the Red Vest and Edgar Degas’s Count Lepic and His Daughters recently stolen from the E.G. Bührle Foundation in Zurich, Switzerland? Billy would become a national hero!

Perhaps the Plejarens are more interested in mathematics. The Millennium Prize Problems are seven problems in mathematics that were stated by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. Currently, six of the problems remain unsolved. A correct solution to each problem results in a $1,000,000 prize being awarded by the institute.

Imagine if Clay Mathematics had to award $1,000,000 to an ET from the Pleiades! Just imagine the Award Ceremony!

Why not have one of Billy’s friends, such as Pleija, solve The Riemann Hypothesis – it’s been pondered over for 100 years. Therefore, it must be important.

To help Pleija, here is a quick rundown of the problem: The Riemann hypothesis is that all nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function have a real part of 1/2. A proof or disproof of this would have far-reaching implications in number theory, especially for the distribution of prime numbers. This problem is still considered an important open problem.

Perhaps the Errans are not so keen on prime numbers. What about the Yang-Mills Theory?

In physics, classical Yang-Mills theory is a generalization of the Maxwell theory of electromagnetism where the chromo-electromagnetic field itself carries charges. As a classical field theory it has solutions which travel at the speed of light so that its quantum version should describe massless particles (gluons). However, the deictic phenomenon of color confinement permits only bound states of gluons, forming massive particles. This is the mass gap. Another aspect of confinement is asymptotic freedom which makes it conceivable that quantum Yang-Mills theory exists without restriction to low energy scales. The problem is to establish rigorously the existence of the quantum Yang-Mills theory and a mass gap.

So there you have it. Forget photos of wedding cake saucers, blurry photos of Errans, and a drawing of the true Jesus, Jmmanuel-Jesus. Let’s get busy solving some things that would definitely prove that communication with an advanced civilization has taken place.

These Errans reside in a dimension that is a fraction of a second in the future from our dimension (an alternate timeline). But where is the evidence? The Plejarens have given plenty: Highly detailed photography, videos, multi-toned sound recordings, metal alloy samples, and the temporary use of a weapon, which Billy employed for trial on a tree.

But I want something more.

My dear friend Hal Puthoff, Ph.D. would ask a very easy question of galactic travelers: “Where do we look for the next supernova?” So simple, so elegant!

Meier has been given a title by the Plejarens. He is Mankind’s last prophet. He is now the Prophet of the (Dawning) Golden Age of Knowledge.

When Sfath died too soon at the age of 900, beautiful Semjase took over (drawing). Semjase drew a pencil drawing of ET human criminal "god" of the Old Testament, the jealous and wrathful Jehovah "the Cruel, the Unjust". Not too many would contradiction Semjase. A drawing of Jehovah? Now that’s new material.

Also revealed by Billy is the discovery of the Talmud Jmmanuel, the 2,000 year-old document, which is considered to be so heretical that it threatens the very foundation of all the major religions. And then there is Jmmanuel, who was given the false name “Jesus Christ”. Billy also has photos of the actual tomb of the crucifixion.

I would counsel Billy to set the world on fire by solving not one, but all six, remaining Millennium Problems. I believe contact is possible. I’m ready to volunteer as a spokesperson. I’m here to serve. http://www.theyfly.com/

The X Conference. This coming weekend we will be in Washington, DC for The X Conference. Paradigm Research Group (PRG) put together a controversial program for the fourth X-Conference held at the Hilton Hotel in Gaithersburg, MD. www.x-conference.com. Founder and Program organizer Steve Bassett announced in a press release that three Aviary members would be speakers. All three, John Alexander, Ph.D. (bird code name “Penguin”), Bruce Maccabbe, Ph.D. (bird code name “Sea Gull”) and Cmdr. C.B. Scott Jones, Ph.D., USN (Ret.) (bird code name “Chickadee”), have insisted that there is no Aviary. While there is no “Aviary”, we did have dinner with “Pelican.”

The Aviary is supposedly a group of individuals with extremely high security clearances, who are in the disinformation business regarding extraterrestrial contact with Earth. In the UFO community it is believed the Aviary knows the truth and is hiding it from the world. (Photo of John with Steven Seagal and Phil Corso, author of “The Day After Roswell”. Our friend Phil said he saw an alien who gave him a message and he handled wreckage of the Roswell crash.)

The X-Conference focuses on the political, governmental and social aspects relating to extraterrestrial-related phenomena – exopolitics. It is produced by PRG as part of an ongoing advocacy effort seeking to end the government imposed truth embargo on formal acknowledgement of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

There are no photographs of EBEN-1 since he told us his soul will be separated from his body if he was photographed.

Spitzer’s $90,000 Hobby. And finally, as a former New Yorker, I followed with intense interest the Gov. Eliot Spitzer sex scandal and can’t wait for his hooker to make her national appearance, become a reality star, and “write” a book. The Gossip Bible, the New York Post’s Page Six recently wrote this: “Silda Knew Of Hookers”:

“SILDA Wall Spitzer [pictured] knew - and didn't care. That's the word we're hearing from a reliable source who says in recent days disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has told friends his wife was aware of his dalliances with hookers for years but looked the other way. "He said something like, 'My [bleep]ing wife doesn't care, so why does anybody else care?" our insider told us. The ex-gov's flack Anna Cordasco responded: "Completely false."”

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