and Justin Beiber — and shudder with revulsion, fear, and anger at things like insane, terrifying income inequality and the lack of any real accountability or punishment whatsoever for those individuals and institutions that knowingly and willingly gutted the American Middle Class, the American Dream, and very nearly the American (and world) economy, then we may still guiltily laugh and thrill at The Wolf of Wall Street for three hours, but leave the theater feeling dirty.

And feeling cheated out of the potential of a film that could have put all its awesome cinematic powers to work not just entertaining with Fellini-esque orgies of what is so gloriously wrong, but actually saying something about the problem.

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Locke Peterseim writes the Hammer and Thump film blog at Open Letters                                           3
response was due on April 11, 2016.

        On April 8, 2016, respondent responded to the undersigned's March 31, 2016 Order,
stating that being a guardian is a different legal entity than being a conservator. Only the
Georgia Probate Court can appoint the conservator of a minor's estate. Thus petitioner's status
under Georgia law as a guardian did not satisfy the terms of paragraph 13 of the parties'
stipulation for settlement.

         On June 21, 2016,