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Bohemian Rhapsody win causes controversy, awkwardness at Golden Globes
MSN Entertainment ^ | January 7, 2019 | James Hibberd

Posted on 01/07/2019 2:31:41 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin

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To: Diana in Wisconsin

1. Singer needs to be run out of town (and into prison)

2. Maybe the movie was either better, or the Hollywood foreign press doesn’t have PC as far up its colon as Hollywood does. Hollywood can’t vote for films about white people, but maybe foreigners are more color blind.


21 posted on 01/07/2019 4:44:31 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Moonmad27

I notice it’s now available for download.


I really want to see iit. Where is it legally available for download?


22 posted on 01/07/2019 4:46:14 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: knarf

America has been mocking God for a long time, not least since Roe v Wade...


23 posted on 01/07/2019 5:05:39 PM PST by karnage
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To: Larry Lucido

EGO, or EGGO? That is the question.


24 posted on 01/07/2019 5:26:52 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Yaelle

I checked again on Prime and it’s for preorder for February. - which I am doing now! (One Amazon Page said 1/3.)

The performance of Gwylim Lee as Brian May was very good - He’s been one of the sidekicks on Midsomer Murders but he’s in the big time now!


25 posted on 01/07/2019 5:32:03 PM PST by Moonmad27
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To: ETCS
Interesting take.

I read that Sasha Baron Cohen wanted to do it ONLY if he could portray Mercury with warts and all.

Queen refused, and wanted it be be more about the band.

Apparently the "sanitized" version carried the day.

Not to diss the actor who played him, but Cohen would have made it much more interesting.

And accurate.

But I wager it would have never received a Golden Globe, or Oscar nomination on that basis.

It would make too many people uncomfortable.

26 posted on 01/07/2019 5:39:10 PM PST by boop (You went to bed last night, and woke up stupid?)
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To: Moonmad27

I look forward to seeing it. I saw the real Brian May last night at the GG’s. For one second I forgot there was a movie about his band up for awards!


27 posted on 01/07/2019 5:54:47 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“and they kept the faggotry to a minimum.”

I’m with that other poster. I’m not into faggotry at all. I read about that Beale Street movie on IMDB. Saw the word racism. Not interested in that movie now. Yes, racism exists today and is shameful, but I don’t need another Hollywood treatment of it.


28 posted on 01/07/2019 6:03:38 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Not sure who is Mike Meyers.......


29 posted on 01/07/2019 8:39:42 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Bohemian rhapsody was a good movie. My favorite part was when Freddy’s father was talking about how they had to flee the muslims. Yes, it explored the seedier side of Freddy’s life, but it didn’t invite you into the bedroom and shove it in your face (things were implied without being explicit). Took my 16 year old to see it; she’s now a huge Quuen fan.

Best part is that she wants to learn more about the music I liked growing up: Kansas, ELO, Rainbow, Kiss, Journey, Led Zeppelin, the Who.


30 posted on 01/07/2019 8:41:38 PM PST by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: TheWriterTX

I went to see BH about 3 weeks ago. I asked the cashier, a post millennial male if it was good? Did you see it? He said yea it was awesome and he wanted to see it again.

I’m sure he didn’t even know who Queen was before the movie.


31 posted on 01/07/2019 8:52:18 PM PST by greenishness
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To: HamiltonJay

Even if the targets of sexual misconduct were adults, misconduct is misconduct.

It’s queer how the mythmaking hero worship of a flawed man is celebrated as being “out there” and grabbing all he wants (sexually). He was “his own man”.

But the flaws of those making the movie about him are considered “controversial”.

Better not try to make bio-pics about David Bowie or Led Zeppelin either...


32 posted on 01/07/2019 9:48:42 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: colorado tanker
>>I turned it off when the first speaker started whining about how threatened she and her fellow journalists were. Given the way they were decked out and partying and doing it all on national TV, they didn’t look very worried to me.

Two filmmakers were locked up under Obamunism.

How many has Donald Trump pursued?

33 posted on 01/07/2019 9:50:01 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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>>America has been mocking God for a long time, not least since Roe v Wade...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_God_Dead%3F

“Is God Dead?” was an April 8, 1966, cover story for the news magazine Time.[1] A previous article, from October 1965, had investigated a trend among 1960s theologians to write God out of the field of theology. The 1966 article looked in greater depth at the problems facing modern theologians, in making God relevant to an increasingly secular society. Modern science had eliminated the need for religion to explain the natural world, and God took up less and less space in people’s daily lives. The ideas of various scholars were brought in, including the application of contemporary philosophy to the field of theology, and a more personal, individual approach to religion.

The issue drew heavy criticism, both from the broader public and from clergymen. Much of the criticism was directed at the provocative magazine cover, rather than the content of the article. The cover – all black with the words “Is God Dead?” in large red text – marked the first time in the magazine’s history that text with no accompanying image was used. In 2008, the Los Angeles Times named the “Is God Dead?” issue among “10 magazine covers that shook the world”.


34 posted on 01/07/2019 9:57:54 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: HamiltonJay

Respectfully, it is sexes, not genders.

I know a British woman who told me Mercury seduced her female friend in their young adulthood. She is a blunt person not given to hyperbole, so I believe her.

I agree that he was indiscriminately hedonistic.

But then I do not take seriously any of these labels. There is no such thing as a homosexual, since there is no such thing as a functional from of sexuality between two persons of the same sex.

It is excessive hedonism and eroticism.


35 posted on 01/08/2019 1:50:02 AM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: a fool in paradise

The Long March Through the Institutions emphatically included seminaries.

Fuller Theological was one of the first and worst.

I would not spend a quarter to attend almost any of them now.


36 posted on 01/08/2019 1:51:37 AM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Fledermaus

Yes, I did, thanks........................


37 posted on 01/08/2019 6:26:00 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: TheWriterTX

“...Kansas, ELO, Rainbow, Kiss, Journey, Led Zeppelin, the Who.”

Score! I still listen to ELO at least every week! :)


38 posted on 01/08/2019 6:28:35 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: yldstrk

Mike Myers. I spelled it incorrectly!

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000196/


39 posted on 01/08/2019 6:30:25 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

well I sure didn’t notice him in the movie


40 posted on 01/08/2019 7:51:51 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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