Author Crichton (Jurassic Park) Tells the Truth About Clinton and Feminists in Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly Magazine ^ | 11/29/2002 | Benjamin Svetkey (interviewer)

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In this weeks Entertainment Weekly magazine there is an interview with Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, the Andromeda Strain, Disclosure, Rising Sun, and other bestsellers. He also does other work in movies and television, including creating the show E.R.

Crichton lives in L.A. and was interviewed by Entertainment Weekly's Benjamin Svetkey.

During the interview the topic turned to attacks Crichton has received for not being politically correct in his books. Crichton explains his feelings on what has become of feminism since Clinton. It's pretty amazing to read something like this is such a mainstream magazine. In fact this magazine is part of the AOL/Time/Warner empire.

Anyway, here's the exchange;

Excerpt
Entertainment Weekly: Last question about your critics: You were attacked for racism because of the depictions of Japanese businessmen in Rising Sun. Disclosure wasn't wildly popular with feminists.

Michael Crichton: There was also a lot of discussion about whether Jurassic Park was antiscience-don't forget that.

EW: Are you surprised by the controversy you sometimes stir up?

Crichton: I was surprised by the reception Rising Sun got. But I knew that making the man the victim of sexual harassment would make Disclosure controversial. That was the idea. To stir things up and make people think.

EW: You stir up the sexual politics in this latest book, too. The stay-at-home dad is its hero, while his working wife is a villain. Not a big fan of feminism?

Crichton: I wouldn't say that. I had one of the first subscriptions to Ms. magazine. I was actually quite sorry to see feminism take the nosedive it did, to watch it commit intellectual suicide with its support for Clinton. If they like the guy, he can do anything. But if they don't-if it's Bob Packwood-they kill him. It revealed the intellectual contradiction. At least that's my reading of it.

[Tokhtamish]

No, it's because America learned how to make cars as good as the Honda Accord.

[venturin]

I didn't realize Crichton was this politically honest.

Yea, an honest Hollywood type living in the heart of LaLa land. I'm sure the NOW crowd is just loving him these days.

[river rat]

"I'm sure the NOW crowd is just loving him these days.

Non Orgasmic Whores?

An insignificant "splinter" group today.... Over dried wood used....
Semper Fi

[Republic]

Eva wrote:Thanks for the link to this article. I am so glad that you have saved some of these old articles. I have a feeling that we are going to need them in our arsenal in a few years.

You know Mia-this is true. Between you and Alamo-girl, we a virtual library here on finger ready missives to direct appropriately when and if her heinous makes a move for our highest office. I have no doubt in my mind, none, that we will stop her. The wildfire grassroots campaign we will serve upon this nation will open the eyes of our nation. And that, coupled with the horrors yet to come from that nasty duos reign of terror, is going to help put those two out of political life.

[venturin]

Yes, a nice jaunt down memory lane. Betty Friedan is just one of many of the Nags that Clinton marginalized to the fringes of political debate.

I think Clinton works for Karl Rove. He's just been too good to us.

[Hildy]

about eight years ago I saw a speech Crichton gave to the National Press Corp. He said that within the next decade that the broadcast news networks would cease to exist as they do now (then) because of the internet. You have to remember 8 years ago the internet was a very new thing, but he saw the writing on the wall. He said as people would be able to get their news unfiltered, the news networks would have to become something else, and he feared it would be News/entertainment, as it basically does today. He is a brilliant man. I loved the book, Disclosure, although I wasn't crazy about the movie.

[Tribune7]

He was very much pro-abortion in the 1970s and probably still is. His "A Case of Need" is real pro-abort propaganda.

That said, I've generally liked his books and he is not a knee-jerk lib. In "Sphere" one of his worst books he takes a great jab at the Carter administration. In the sequel to "Jurassic Park", he makes a snide comment on evolution.

And "Disclosure" was certainly not P.C.

[Tribune7]

And Sony puts out good products too.

[DrCarl]

>now they're on their knees.

Yeah, along with all the rest of us.