I Think Test Screening Works

Rain Man Certainly Didn't Test Really Well. If You Look At It Carefully, You Have A Disease Autism They Didn't Understand Back Then, They Didn't Know In The Test Audience Whether It's Okay To Laugh Or Not Laugh, Because It's A Film That's Done In A Way Where, "well, Maybe I'm Not Supposed To Laugh." At The End Of The Film, Dustin Hoffman Gets On The Train And Doesn't Even Acknowledge His Brother. Not Even A Glance, Nothing. That's Why The Studio Said, "can't You Just Have Him Look At Tom Cruise At The End Of The Film?"

I Don't See Sarah Palin Suddenly Spilling Over To A Wider Group Where Suddenly They Go, "wait A Minute, I've Heard Her Message, And Now I'm Beginning..." It's Not Expanding It. A Politician That Doesn't Expand From The Base Is Not A Good Politician. So I Disagree With All The Talking Heads That Go "well, She's A Very Good Politician." She's Not! Good Politicians Expand, And She Doesn't.

Sarah Palin Kept Talking And Talking, And The More She Talks, The Less Compelling She Can Be. People Say, "she's A Very Good Politician, Very Deft At What She Does," And Whatever. And I Hear That Sometimes And Go, "i Don't Know Much About This Stuff, But I Would Say No." Because The Really Good Politician Expands The Audience, Not Contracts It. She May Be Getting A Very Vocal Crowd, But It's A Very Specific Group.

Studios Just Sometimes Make Decisions On Their Own That You're Always Flabbergasted By. It Just Happens That Way For Whatever Reason - Not Even Pointing Fingers, It Just Is.

No One Really Has The Power, And Everybody's Trying To Get Through The Day, And Everybody's Nervous And Desperate.