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George Clooney revamps ‘misogynistic’ Catch-22 for TV... [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 24,2019 | Rebecca Davison and Caitlyn Becker

Posted on 04/24/2019 3:38:34 AM PDT by C19fan

George Clooney is adapting Joseph Heller's satirical 1961 novel Catch-22 for a six-part TV show, in which he is giving greater prominence to female roles. According to The Times, the 20th century tale has been criticised for it 'terrible misogyny' and its arguably demeaning depiction of women - the very few female characters are 'objectified and sexualised'. The 57-year-old will produce, star and direct the show and he and co-star Christopher Abbott, 33, grace the cover of Variety to promote the new project.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: feminism
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To: freefdny

And Major Major Major Major would now be private Major Major Major which wouldn’t seem as weird as him being called LtCol Major Major Major which wasn’t allowed and definitely NOT MajGen Major Major Major.

He would also (probably) change the war to US vs some Africans so he could allow ‘White Supremacists’ to bribe the AF into bombing the African Villages

Maybe he can bring back Robert Byrd D-WV to play the role of the leading Klansman

Kind of like that movie where Cage was the guard for one of the Navajo Talkers and ALL got their panties in a wad when they figured out that the MAIN job for Cage was to ‘shoot the Indian’ rather than let him be captured.

Of course the snowflakes have/had absolutely no idea what the Japs would do to ANYONE they thought may have had some ‘intelligence’, along with their feeling that to surrender put one lower than ‘whale-$hiite’ in the pecking order of survivors.

In their ‘code’, anyone who threw down their arms and surrendered wasn’t worthy of living nor worth the trouble to feed.


21 posted on 04/24/2019 7:01:26 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"Getting rich as a Politician means doing something illegal''(trunc) HS Truman)
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To: Oklahoma

“I’m still waiting for true telling of Huckleberry Finn.”

Never happen, too many “N” words.


22 posted on 04/24/2019 7:57:59 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Oklahoma

Of course, film makers have always taken liberty with actual settings in movies. For example, the Deer Hunter was set in a western PA steel town. They drove up into the mountains to go hunting. However, they filmed the mountain scenes in the Canadian Rockies. They look a lot pettier than Alleghany Mountains


23 posted on 04/24/2019 8:07:51 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Proud_texan
the boy doesn't have enough class to be a whore...
24 posted on 04/24/2019 2:40:30 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: C19fan

Clooney is a very old looking 57 year old.
He has not aged well. He needs to be airbrushed in his photos and films.


25 posted on 04/24/2019 2:45:52 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: C19fan

Modern “entertainment” desperately needs another preachy, condescending piece of garbage. I’ll be sure to check this one out.


26 posted on 04/24/2019 2:48:41 PM PDT by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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To: C19fan

Catch-22 is one of my all-time favorites.

You couldn’t pay me to watch what this putz does to bastardize Heller’s masterpiece.


27 posted on 04/25/2019 5:42:54 AM PDT by simpson96
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