I'll show you a vendetta

I am annoyed at The New Yorker's review of "V for Vendetta" today, not because it pans something I'd hoped would be fun and pretty -- that's the reviewer's perogative, and he has several good arguments, one or two of which have already made me rethink my approach to the movie --, but because David Denby makes some derisive comments about pop culture that were entirely unnecessary in order for him to criticize the film. This is the most irritating declaration, from the top of the second paragraph:

Pop cannibalizes and regurgitates everything, including history, and in normal circumstances only a literal-minded prig would treat graphic novelists or big-screen fantasists as if they had any responsibility to truth.

I'm still too steamed to put down a coherent response here. Feel free to offer yours.

Older man/younger woman handled admirably, for a change

Oh, Alan. Such a gentleman. ( 'Boston Legal' spoiler, not that any of you watch the show. )

Sigh.