[78-L] Olde-timers ^

[David Lennick]

Clooney is definitely an exception, as well as a decent actor whose aunt was a 
fabulous singer. We watched "Good Night and Good Luck" again the other week. 
Still a beautiful piece of work, even if the studio clocks keep getting stuck 
at 10:30.

But most actors are morons, or at the least idiot savants, and I can say that 
from having grown up in that environment. Most of them shouldn't run for 
anything higher than their local union councils. And the Hebrews are still 
boycotting everything Mel Gibson does. His suicide, that they won't boycott.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
>> Because Robeson believed that racism didn't exist in Russia,
>> he overlooked (or wasn't aware of) other awful things that
>> were happening there, and probably persuaded others to follow him.
>> Julian Vein
> 
> He didn't notice that Russia was a very racist society because he was a
> novelty there -- he was the only Black they had ever seen -- and the
> Russian racism was against races other than his.  The Chechnia war was
> purely racism.  Examples were pointed out to me on the streets of Moscow
> and in the Russian media when I was there in 95.  Now that there ARE
> Blacks in Moscow -- stranded students from then-Communist Rwanda who
> can't return -- there is Russian racism against Paul Robeson's race.
> 
> But actors and musicians tend to travel around the country and around
> the world more than regular folks, and they get to see a lot of things
> and meet a lot of people from these different places, sometimes much
> more than our politicians.  Many of those who bluster that our country
> is the greatest country in the world have never been to other countries
> to compare -- and sometimes when they had traveled they were the "ugly
> american" who always complained that the frogs don't speak English and
> that they can't find a decent hamburger.  Remember, our recent president
> had only been out of the U.S. four times in his entire life, and most of
> those trips were drunken binges.  He told British reporters on his first
> trip there that he thought that he had been to London once before, but
> it would have been on a pub crawl so he wasn't sure.  
> 
> Actors tend to be good observers of people, and they use what they see
> to create characters.  If any of you watched the Haiti telethon last
> night, George Clooney is a good example.  His father Nick was a
> journalist, and has had a great influence on George.  A close colleague
> of mine worked in news with Nick, and a couple of years ago he
> accompanied Nick and George on one of their trips to Africa to see and
> document the devastation of the drought and the civil and tribal wars. 
> George has the time and the money to be able to do these things far more
> than our politicians do.  He also is more intelligent than most of our
> politicians.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
> 
> eugene hayhoe wrote:
>>> Vague though they may be, I'll take the politics of someone
>>> like Paul Robeson, Bob Marley or Kurt Weill over those of a
>>> Richard Nixon or a Bill Clinton, etc.  Gene
> ==================
> From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Some political views may on the surface appear more worthy than others 
> but if they are based on false premises they are just as dangerous as 
> the outright self-aggrandisement ones.
>