New Heights of Stupidity

The audio commentary is funny on several counts. Note that Mr. Cunningham appears to have been transported here from another planet, where heels are news. But note also the tact when he says that he got to Greenwich Village, and "there was a [slight hesitation] person, I think probably a [watch your brain do calculations at a million miles a second here to see what noun is coming] performance artist...." Nicely done, Bill. Well played.

But really, this is the sort of thing that New York is obsessed with. This just in, women wear heels no matter how stupid they look or how hard they are to walk in! Also, women suffer for fashion. Quick, alert the media! Oh, wait, you already did.

On the bright side, this is really what you get in New York. A thousand rare birds that could never survive in the wild all fluttering around in their special artificial environment being fabulous in whatever way takes their fancy. It gets wearing occasionally when the ways that take their fancy are so frequently gut-wrenchingly expensive (it's no accident that Carrie Bradshaw has shoes and no down payment--if Darren Star were into cinema verite, she would also have bunions), but it is sort of spectacular, nonetheless.