"What made the 65-year-old Ms. Greer's departure last week so riveting, by contrast, was that her attack was not a personal whining session, but a blistering cultural and literary critique of the show that revealed her as perhaps the only contestant who has ever actually read (or at least admitted reading) George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," where the whole notion of Big Brother was born." (Sarah Lyall from the NYTimes)
The idea of Germaine Greer doing Big Brother is like Susan Sontag doing Fear Factor. Or something. (RIP Susan.) Or how about Camille Paglia doing Survivor. That's better. I'd TiVo that if I had a TiVo. And cable. Well, at least we have Jeffrey Steingarten ripping it on Iron Chef America.
My favorite comment from her piece is this: "When I left we had been without milk, tea and sugar for 18 hours." Oh, the horror.
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