5/29/2002: Spidering American culture

[SteveDallas]

For those in Philadelphia interested in Bollywood, there is a Bollywood Video place on Rt. 3. I think it's in West Philadelphia, but it could be over the city line in Upper Darby--I just remember it's on the way from Havertown to Center City.

I just saw Spiderman yesterday, and I thought it was good, and yeah, there was that scene in the rain that will overshadow all Kirsten's other nice appearances in the movie.

I have heard this about people in other countries watching American crap and seeing Kirsten Dunst in the rain, Christina Applegate on Married with Children, or Britney Spears darn near anywhere, and think that's the normal everyday behavior of American women. Starsky and Hutch being cited by oversees perps? That's a new one on me. What are we supposed to make of this? What are we supposed to do about it? I'm sure I'd make equally off-the-mark misinterpretations about something I watched from another country if I had equally little context to put it in. (I wonder if that happens with American consumers of Japanese animation?)