Outgoing THR Chief Muses On The Nature Of Time
News that The Hollywood Reporter editor-in-chief and publisher Robert Dowling was "ankling" or "retiring" (depending on whether you read the Variety or THR report) hit late yesterday afternoon, but we were too mesmerized by the exciting possibilities of Mel Gibson's Holocaust miniseries to pay attention. According to Var, though, Dowling's stepping-down was a "shock" to his underlings, and when questioned about the timing of the move, he embarked upon a Yodaesque meditation on temporality:
As to why Dowling is leaving now, the outgoing chief said, "The answer to that is, why any time? Now is whenever now is. The paper has really transformed itself from what it was to what is one of the most respected brands in Hollywood. There's never really a good time."
Indeed, now is whenever now is. Just because these words were lifted almost verbatim from the denouement of a particularly ambitious episode of Quantum Leap doesn't make them any less true.
