Posted on 03/06/2006 10:35:45 PM PST by goldstategop
Dennis Prager ping
If someone doesn't want to be remembered as being "political" during their Oscar acceptance speech, I don't blame them. It's what we ostensibly keep asking for.. shut up and act. Keep your politics to yourself. etc.
Agreed.
There really weren't any political speeches at the Oscars last night. Clooney's was nothing compared to the stuff in the 1970s.
Yeah, exactly. I for one like it that way.
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You also will not hear that speech, because the recipients are either un-american, or, they know they will never work in this town again if they do.
I'll check out the book. It looks interesting. I'm not a huge Wayne fan. I think that his persona worked well in westerns for a lot of reasons and not so well in other movies for the same reasons. In my opinion, The Shootist is one of the best "modern" westerns ever made. The Searchers is also a nice piece of work.
Well, I loved Wayne, because he was so authentic. He really never "played" anything except himself. That's why toward the end of his career, I always thought he would have been an automatic Oscar by taking ANY "gay" role.
Have you ever seen stagecoach (the 1939 version?
Wayne, of course, won an Oscar for True Grit.
Yes.
I know, but my point was he could have won it anytime if he had played a homosexual.
Wayne plays the bad guy. But that was at the beginning of his career, before he became a "movie star."
Speaking just for myself, I dislike "movie stars." I prefer "real actors." What is weird today is that the level of acting has far out-stripped the material they're given.
I know, but my point was he could have won it anytime if he had played a homosexual.
Wayne playing a gay guy would have been a disaster. He didn't have the range.
We disagree on that. Wayne could do a lot of things---he just chose not to.
Maybe. He was one of that last generation to come out of the "studio system." Audiences knew what they were getting when they walked into a "Cary Grant" or "John Wayne" movie, and the studios weren't going to do anything to disappoint them.
Thank you Sarge... I am hoping that Ben, and myself, approves.
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