This week’s Time (February 10, 2003) has a quote from Britney Spears after she visited the Sundance Film Festival. Sundance is weird. The movies are weird – you actually have to think about them when you watch them. At first I dismissed this as simply another sign of the foolishness of asking celebrities for their opinions on anything outside of their field. You know, like listening hearing some Hollywood type give his opinion on AIDS because he plays a doctor on TV… These comments aren’t worth any serious thought, but are usually worth a laugh.

However, Britney IS in the entertainment business and this is actually a worthy comment about the industry. Most content coming from Hollywood doesn’t require any thinking – in fact the entertainment value goes up if you can put your thinking on hold so you don’t see all the gaps in the “logic” of the film. The success of the Sundance Film Festival is actually an indictment of Hollywood and Britney was smart enough to figure this out. This puts her several steps above the typical Hollywood director.