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Posted on 06/06/2013 6:56:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Kirk Douglas looks around America these days and he sees too many guns.
The 96-year-old actor, best known for performances in classic films like Spartacus, Paths of Glory and Lust for Life, took to the cyber pages of The Huffington Post to call for more gun control--and far less guns.
I often played the good cowboy on screen, riding in to save the day. Now, everybody thinks he is a cowboy too. That frightens me. We have become a cowboy country with too many guns....
I cannot understand the people who are against some form of gun control. They should be the first to welcome a message on making it more difficult to get a gun. Many of them seem to propose more guns being available to everybody. Why? Are they interested in making more money for the gun manufacturers? Are they politicians who just want to oppose the president in anything he endorses? It's incomprehensible to me.
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I thought this fool was taking a dirt nap too. His is the only autobio I have ever read in my life where I was neutral about the person before reading, and hated the SOB after I’d read it. Thoroughly nasty person.
Jane Fonda did some good acting jobs too, but we’re going to call the bitch on her anti-USA crap no matter how old she gets — BECAUSE SHE DESERVES IT when she spews her anti-American crap. Same with Kirk. You don’t get a “pass” because you did alright in some other area of life.
If he “doesn’t deserve nasty remarks” [for calling him on HIS BS] then he shouldn’t spew BS and espouse gun grabbing. His ways end up getting millions killed. I don’t give a damn how old someone is, or what “exalted” thing they’d done - -but it doesn’t give them a free pass to spout nonsense and not get called on it. No one held a gun to his head to say the crap he did, therefore he can and should be called on it. You don’t have to suspend reason and kiss his butt for saying stupid stuff.
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Weren't assault swords banned in 15 BCE?
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Where is he spitting on the country? I don’t agree with his take on guns but this guy isn’t burning the flag.
He probably also said “HEY YOU KIDS! GET OFFA MY LAWN!” but that sort of angry old man rant doesn’t make headlines.
Yes. And that's why there have been no deaths from assault swords ever since.
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Neither you nor I will be around 100 years from now and no one will say “I sure would like to see a Kirk Douglas movie,” but they’ll still be enjoying “For a Few Dollars More.”
Tango Sierra for you and your legend.
I'm talking about legends here. (See list post 126) Grant, Bogart, Douglas and their ilk will never be replicated. Ever.
We are fast losing our wonderful classic stars who have left us so much wonderful entertainment, and as a lover of classic films and its stars, it hurts to see them so viciously denigrated.
Please enlighten us as to who decides about the title “legend”? Is there a Ministry of Legends bestowing these titles on selected celebrities?
I’ll tell you what legends are in Hollywood. Legends in Hollywood are about wild parties, drinks, drugs, whores, rapes, wild drunken rides and similar exciting things involving well known actors whom naive fans out there worship as ‘legends’. Some biographies will tell you more about it. Sorry if that disappoints your idealized view of Hollywood.
You could say the same thing about various poets, painters, and composers who occupied the High Art end of the spectrum.
You could say the same thing about anyone. I was asking however why Kirk is to be considered a “legend” and Clint isn’t.
Robin Hood is a legend, that we know for certain.
Simple: Kirk was working at a time when better directors were making better films. Clint came in when the Studio System had just about collapsed.
What’s any of that that have to do with the word and concept of “legend”? Is Dana Andrews a legend? Fatty Arbuckle? Absurdity chasing silliness.
Andrews didn’t project the force of personality that Douglas did. He was generic; Kirk Douglas was sui generis.
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