I was reading a music critic in The Village Voice who said about Prince and Bruce Springsteen, "I have the same mistrust for a revolutionary named for royalty as I do for a working-class hero nicknamed 'The Boss'"!
They've just released Bombshell, a movie about Fox News and how its boss Roger Ailes sexually abused the women under him. Have you ever noticed that most of the women you see on Fox News have blond hair? Very old-fashioned attitudes...
Deadwood was a TV show about a frontier town. There were some Chinese people there living under the thumb of the local Chinese gang boss. How tough was this guy? About the only English word he knew, which he'd use when speaking to the white community's gang boss, was "Cocksucker!"
Ebert and Siskel did a show once about movie cliches. One they mentioned was in buddy-cop movies like Lethal Weapon, where the two partners will get along badly at first, then go to their boss and ask to be reassigned, but the boss will say no. (If he said yes, of course, there'd be no more movie!)
The absurdist workplace comic strip Dilbert makes fun of bosses a lot. In one episode, the first panel shows the big boss saying to Dilbert's boss, "You screwed up! How could you be so stupid?" The second panel shows Dilbert's boss saying to Dilbert, "You screwed up! How could you be so stupid?" The third panel shows Dilbert saying to his coffee mug, "You stupid coffee mug!" (No doubt the army is like that...)
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