Awards

A comment on the Emmys by producer of The Good Wife:

When you lose the Emmy competition, Robert jokes, “you dismiss the awards and say those don’t matter anyway. And then when you win, it’s ‘damn right – everything’s right with the universe.’ Everybody understands art.”

A corollary: good press can be as "negative" in the long run as bad press can be in the short run. It can go to your head. Both should be met with a shrug, "there's no accounting for taste."

In this regard, nothing more sensible has been written on this subject than Morris Weitz's Hamlet and the Philosophy of Literary Criticism. Prof. Roger Gross at the U of O, grad school theater class, included this  in our pile of textbooks. My good fortune to be his student!