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sunny wrote:We've discussed this film before:
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Director De Palma disturbed over Iraq film edit
By Christine Kearney
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Veteran Hollywood director Brian De Palma has lashed out at what he calls the censorship of his new film about Iraq and the chilling effect of corporate America on the war.
De Palma's film, "Redacted," is based on the true story of a group of U.S. soldiers who raped and killed a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdered members of her family. It has stunned audiences for its shocking images and rattled American conservative commentators before its U.S. opening next month.
Based on the Dennis Lehane novel about two Boston area detectives investigating a little girl's kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally.
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:
Go look at your mega-cina-plex movie dispensary for coming attractions and see that:
> 'Bee Movie' is coming from CIA For Kids! Disney to assuage concern over bee Hive Collapse Syndrome that amped global warming angst this past year.
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:
> 'Bee Movie' is coming from CIA For Kids! Disney to assuage concern over bee Hive Collapse Syndrome that amped global warming angst this past year.
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:>'Elizabeth: The Golden Age' is coming withe poster motto being
"Woman- Warrior - Queen" to hype warrior culture for recruiting.
Jerry Seinfeld wrote it. I don't know why - for his kids maybe?
Jeff wrote:Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:
Go look at your mega-cina-plex movie dispensary for coming attractions and see that:
> 'Bee Movie' is coming from CIA For Kids! Disney to assuage concern over bee Hive Collapse Syndrome that amped global warming angst this past year.
Hugh, do you realize how long it takes animated features to get made? "Bee Movie" has been in the works for four years.
Your comment about the marketing of "Elizabeth" is much more valid.
But in the next few months, Seinfeld will be making a brief yet very noticeable return to mass media, a comeback that began four years ago when he had dinner with director Steven Spielberg, a partner in DreamWorks SKG and a neighbor of Seinfeld's in New York's tony Hamptons. The star casually mentioned an idea for an animated movie to Spielberg. "A movie about bees," Seinfeld says he told the director, "called Bee Movie." (As in B movie, get it?) Spielberg then alerted his colleague Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation.
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When he mentioned the idea for Bee Movie to Spielberg in 2003, "I was just trying to make witty conversation," says Seinfeld. "It was never my intention to make the movie." He said yes, however, when DreamWorks Animation offered him complete control, and he thought it sounded fun to get together some former Seinfeld writers to work with him on the script. "We had a blast," he says. Plus, computer animation "just felt so different. What if I can be funny this way? I just kind of got sucked in."
Ames, Paul. "Life's Not So Sweet for Europe's Embattled Beekeepers."
Associated Press. 24 January 1994.
Higgins, Adrian. "Honeybees in a Mite More Than Trouble."
The Washington Post. 14 May 2002 (p. A1).
#14 - "Candice Bergen and Belushi play Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in a parody of the film classic, 'Casablanca.' This was the third time Bergen hosted the show and she vowed it would be her last because the vitality and freshness of the acting had been ruined, she felt, by drugs.
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#26 - With actress, Candice Bergen on 'Saturday Night Live.' Bergen vowed to never appear on the show again because it had changed so, mainly because of the drugs.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
FASCISM IN AMERICA: THE ESSENTIAL MAE BRUSSELL, Edited by Alex Constantine, on CD - Available Only from this Site
Announcing the very first collection of Mae Brussell essays, radio transcripts, speeches, interviews, memorablia, etc., edited by Alex Constantine, available in a searchable, e-book format on CD. (A chapter from the book is appended below.)
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Chapter Fifteen: The Murder of John Belushi
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I didn't know John Belushi, but he was very successful, just as many rock musicians died at the peak of their success, at the crest when they were about to do better things. This death follows the same pattern.
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He was about to make, with partners, two very important and highly political movies. One was to be called Blue Moon Over Miami, and it was to be directed by Louis Malle, the fellow who directed Atlantic City, nominated for an Academy Award – and also My Dinner with André; it's been suggested this was the best picture of the year. Malle is a serious director. The script was written by highly-successful and well-known writer, John Guare.
So one of the movies that Belushi was about to make was a comedy about the FBI and drug smuggling from Colombia to Miami. And he would play the role of the drug dealer, an informer for the FBI, and then the FBI agent becomes the drug dealer. That is, you must admit, a very controversial movie because the state of Florida depends upon the drug market. It is probably the biggest going industry in Florida, and also the United States.
And these people don't appreciate comedy.
And the network of assassination teams and drug dealers selling poison drugs comes from headquarters in Hollywood and Miami.
Belushi was also in Hollywood to make a movie called Noble Rot, and he was to be with his good friend Don Novello, Father Sarducci. Now, Father Sarducci and John Belushi were making a movie about the wineries in California, dominated by the mob. They are trying to establish social acceptance, and this was to be a comedy about the Italian Mafia. Noble Rot, you can imagine what that is by the title alone.
So if you think that Belushi was not overly-political, forget it. In the past, he made fun of the Establishment. And to make fun of the Establishment is lethal.
Doodad wrote:.....Beelzebub....
Osgood performed a factor analysis of large collections of semantic differential scales and found three recurring attitudes that people use to evaluate words and phrases: evaluation, potency, and activity.
Evaluation loads highest on the adjective pair 'good-bad'.
The 'strong-weak' adjective pair defines the potency factor.
Adjective pair 'active-passive' defines the activity factor.
These three dimensions of affective meaning were found to be cross-cultural universals in a study of dozens of cultures.
This factorial structure makes intuitive sense. When our ancestors encountered a person, the initial perception had to be whether that person represents a danger. Is the person good or bad? Next, is the person strong or weak? Our reactions to a person markedly differ if perceived as good and strong, good and weak, bad and weak, or bad and strong. Subsequently, we might extend our initial classification to include cases of persons who actively threaten us or represent only a potential, danger, and so on. The evaluation, potency and activity factors thus encompass a detailed descriptive system of personality. Osgood's semantic differential measures these three factors. It contains sets of adjective pairs such as warm-cold, bright-dark, beautiful-ugly, sweet-bitter, fair-unfair, brave-cowardly, meaningful-meaningless.
Semantic differentials can be used to describe not only persons, but also the connotative meaning of abstract concepts—a capacity used extensively in affect control theory.
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:
That's what's behind the human minituarization movies, making the viewer seek relief in restoration of power, very basic social engineering by the National inSecurity State.
DePalma also produced the brashly anti-fascist "Starship Troopers." He's on our side. But in the HMW school, he is one of THEM, because artists who actually get their ideas on film are, by association, corrupted.
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