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Mark Steyn: Phoney Baloney - (What George Clooney and the rest of the Oscar crowd have served up)
National Review ^
| Feebruary 27, 2005
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 02/10/2006 11:14:39 AM PST by UnklGene
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To: genghis
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posted on
02/10/2006 12:31:06 PM PST
by
Belasarius
(Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job 5:2-7)
To: Daralundy
I would love to hear Clooney's comments about this article - that is, if he could understand it.
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posted on
02/10/2006 12:35:16 PM PST
by
ClancyJ
(The New York Times is Aiding and Abetting the Enemy - They are Traitors and Put Our Families at Risk)
To: UnklGene
"This is the Platonic reductio of political art. Say what you like about those Hollywood guys in the Thirties but they were serious about their leftism. Say what you like about those Hollywood guys in the Seventies but they were serious about their outrage at what was done to the lefties in the McCarthy era though they might have been better directing their anger at the movie-industry muscle that enforced the blacklist. By comparison,
Clooneys is no more than a pose hes acting at activism, new Hollywood mimicking old Hollywoods robust defense of even older Hollywood. Hes more taken by the idea of
speaking truth to power than by the footling question of whether the truth hes speaking to power is actually true."
Mark Steyn Salute.
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posted on
02/10/2006 1:05:35 PM PST
by
Countyline
(God loves you ... He wants you to love Him back; and learn of Him.)
To: Borges
Grotowski and Havel risked their lives doing theatre behind the Iron curtain.
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posted on
02/10/2006 1:39:08 PM PST
by
wildcatf4f3
(I'm becoming a performance artist so i can crap on the koran in public)
To: wildcatf4f3
Oh I agree with your assertion. I was really taking objection to the idea that an Artist is a de facto coward.
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posted on
02/10/2006 1:43:31 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Countyline
It's Postmodern activism!
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posted on
02/10/2006 1:44:56 PM PST
by
Borges
To: UnklGene
I haven't watched the Academy Awards in years. Hollywood today is as irrelevant as George Clooney.
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posted on
02/10/2006 1:51:21 PM PST
by
Palladin
("Governor Lynn Swann."...it has a nice ring to it!)
To: frankjr
Man, this article deserves some award, somewhere!
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posted on
02/10/2006 1:56:56 PM PST
by
roses of sharon
("I would rather men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one". ) (Cato the Elder)
To: ClancyJ
He would have to read it at least 5 times, in between, hiring staff for is Italian Villa.
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posted on
02/10/2006 1:58:38 PM PST
by
roses of sharon
("I would rather men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one". ) (Cato the Elder)
To: UnklGene
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posted on
02/10/2006 3:08:39 PM PST
by
I_be_tc
To: UnklGene
Lots of great lines, but my favorite thought provoking sentence is, "What talk radio did to network news and the Internet is doing to monopoly newspapers, someone will eventually do to the big studios, and one day we may wind up with a Hollywood in which, as Clooney might say, nothing is getting shot."
- We may be too close to events to see them clearly, but I believe that Hollywood is even now in a decline, sort of like the Drive In Movie industry of the 1950's. The 20th century might become viewed as the golden age of Hollywood, before it became infested with hubris and the George Clooney like mind set.
Even now, the three major revenue sources for Hollywood are remakes of old movie classics, feature length cartoons and extravagant productions drawn from "Brit Lit" sources.
An enterprising writer could probably start today and already have enough material to make a good case for a book on the rise and fall of Hollywood.
To: Richard Kimball
Danish cartoonists are in hiding for their lives but George Clooney will be televised around the world picking up an award for his bravery. There's no more to say.
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posted on
02/11/2006 8:05:50 PM PST
by
Hildy
(The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth)
To: finnigan2
Adaptations have been part of filmmaking from the beginning. And there has not been a Hollywood monopoly on American filmmaking for a long time. Anyone can get a movie made if they hustle. People finance films with their credit card these days.
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posted on
02/12/2006 8:34:40 AM PST
by
Borges
To: UnklGene
To: dead
dead, that is a great cartoon / parody!
I noticed your name in the corner. Did you draw it? If so you really did a great job nailing down Toles' style.
To: UnklGene
Amazing. I get an English lesson with each MS piece, this time perhaps more than others. How does he write so many great words each week?
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:43:45 PM PST
by
jimfree
(Freep and Ye shall find.)
To: UnklGene
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posted on
02/13/2006 5:09:54 PM PST
by
deadrock
To: Roscoe Karns
Thanks Roscoe.
I can't draw, but I can cut & paste. I started with Toles cartoon mocking our seriously wounded soldiers and cut and paste elements from other crappy Toles cartoons to build a new one.
That way, he got to draw a cartoon mocking himself, and he didn't even know it!
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posted on
02/13/2006 5:10:45 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: frankjr
His aunt Rosemary was ten times the man Georgie is.
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posted on
02/13/2006 5:12:42 PM PST
by
eleni121
('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
To: dead
Well, it's a brilliant photoshop & captioning!
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