steven spielberg needs to stay out of our local council’s business—leave your blockbuster fantasies for the cinema.
I can’t be the only one sick of this. I open up the local council’s Facebook page and there’s another post about some “visionary” project for our downtown, and who’s name is plastered all over it? That’s right, steven spielberg. The guy who makes amblin movies about aliens and dinosaurs thinks he knows what our town square needs—a multi-million dollar “interactive film museum” with hologram trees and a cinema shaped like a UFO. Did anyone ask us? The working families who have to drive around the construction cones for two years? They call it “cultural enrichment,” I call it common sense gone out the window. We’ve got crumbling sidewalks and potholes big enough to swallow a Jeep, but sure, let’s blow the budget on some Hollywood pipe dream. This isn’t a movie set, Mr. Spielberg—it’s our hometown. Pack up your special effects and take your Burbank glitz back to California.