The highly prestigious Cannes Film Festival Award went to a 3-hour movie about an underage lesbian affair which featured some of the most graphic sex scenes ever to appear in a “main-stream” non-pornographic film. The jury which picked “Blue is the Warmest Color” was headed by Steven Spielberg and included director Ang Lee and actress Nicole Kidman (...shame on them all; especially Kidman who claims to be Catholic.) Although the two actresses in the film are adults, the main character was only 15. Sadly, this film seems to mark the major return of lesbian-chic to the popular consciousness; which began rather subliminally with Katy Perry’s (2008) mega-hit “I Kissed a Girl.” Lesbianism has not taken such center-stage since Madonna’s hugely-influential video for “Justify My Love.” That song and video inspired a generation, including myself, to experiment with homosexuality. The modern porn-pushers, pretending to be artists; while succeeding at being merely pretentious hacks, will seduce a new breed of children with no hold on moral absolutes. The only thing more disturbing than the film is the shameless marketing scheme: the above photo of the two actresses, in a Playboy-esque embrace, is sickening exploitation - at its worst. But, I guess pedophilia masquerading as art has replaced true creative greatness. Welcome to the new normal.