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Let's find out who the jingoisitic, cowardly, jerks who booed the courageous Michael Moore were and put them on our own boycott list! We can start with Dennis Miller. He sounds like a facsist to me..add James Woods (war-mongered heavily on Leno.. calling Michael Moore a chicken-shit tub of goo). Of course, we NEVER liked him, ever since that voodoo doll business w/Sean (???). Salvador was an aberration, probably when he was still serving-it-up and somehow coerced Oliver Stone into giving him that role by coking him up or something. Oh and where is Oliver Stone? We NEED him to do the Fictitious Election of George the Second, actually perhaps better in the hands of Michael Moore. I am reading "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast and the whole book would just be a great documentary. Where are the spirits of Fonda, Redgrave, and Brando when we need them??? - S. Razor |
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my opinion, the creators of images, the portrayers of stereotypes,
the reflectors and/or manipulators of reality have a huge responsibility
towards the making of a nation. It is the role of the artist (and
it has been so for time immemorial) to inspire, provoke thought, challenge
systems, disturb the status quo, stir emotions, stimulate the mind.
Violence in all its forms whether it is war, individual violence,
urban violence, crime of passion etc. (all for entertainment purpose)......has
been the favorite topic of Hollywood (and of other agencies specializing
in image-aking). So now we are dealing with a REAL WAR and this so-called
"neutrality of the artist" is nonsense. WE WANT ARTISTS TO BE RESPONSIBLE...So, who is on the shit list...??...who is the famous nut who is inpersonating General Lee in a new Civil War movie??... He and Charlston Heston can lead the list. No more time to cogitate. - C Caminat |
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JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN (D. Trumbo - 1938) This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered--not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives...This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome...but so is war. Dalton Trumbo..blacklisted by Hollywood, until, apparrently, receiving the Oscar for Best Original Story - 1956 for "The Brave One". Hollywood,
Politics and the Oscars, and ...Charlie Chaplain, Bette Davis, Humphrey
Bogart, James Cagney, Judy Garland, Rita Hayworth, Groucho Marx, Orson
Welles, Katherine Hepburn, Harry Belafonte......featured in J. Hoberman's
When Doves Cry
(Vilage Voice 3/26/03)
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RADICAL HOLLYWOOD: (Buhle & Wagner) The vapidity of today's Hollywood movies evokes longing for the days when commercial filmmakers tried to purvey more than adolescent sexual high jinks and mindless farce. In the Thirties and Forties a generation of actors and screenwriters shaped by the Great Depression, the New Deal, the Soviet Union, the rise of fascism, and the new militancy of labor unions looked to Hollywood as the ideal way to reach the masses. An assortment of leftists, hard-line Communists, and fellow travelers worked on scripts in all genres: gangster, musical, western, war, horror, and, in particular, film noir, which, "perhaps more than any other film genre expressed the artists' political world view." They show that the activists' ultimate goal was less to inject political messages into their films than to balance political and artistic qualities--a mission curtailed by the advent of the blacklist in the late '40s as well as by other social trends. To fully understand the radical era and how it led to the blacklist, this work should be supplemented by titles like Buhle and Patrick McGilligan's Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist, Walter Bernstein's Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist, and Robert Vaughn's Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting (review from amazon.com)
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