Posted on 05/28/2006 12:48:22 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
ALPHAgore is only a protagonist in his dreams and in Love Story. (snicker...)
Yes, there does appear to be an "Arthur B. Robinson" on the list.
Check him out. via Google Pretty interesting history.
p.s.
If you are ever in Oregon, Cave Junction -- where the caves are located (natch) is not to be missed. The caves are awesome.
"I used to be the next president of the United States."
Gawd, Al, give it up. That's just pathetic. And the notion that this is non-political is absurd. It is political by its existance, and there is no need to state that it is.
Paging Michael Crichton... say, has anyone been jumping to put "State of Fear" on the screen? I do hope so.
And by the way, to our many, many trees, CO2 IS life.
An inconvenient scientific fact.
Matthew Robinson's father, I see.
Of course, this article is by a 'unbiased' film critic. /sarcasm
Roger Ebert, film critic
Gore creamed Bush.
Gore was informed, articulate, on topic and persuasive. Bush was vague, rambling, hesitant.
Q: Rothschild: Tell me what was your reaction to Michael Moore's acceptance speech at the Academy Awards.
A: Ebert: I agree with what he said. I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.
Q: What do you make of the criticism of Hollywood celebrities for speaking out against the war -- the Sean Penns, the Susan Sarandons?
A: Ebert: It's just ignorant; it's just ignorant.
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out. If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing. Oddly enough, the people who mostly seem to hear them are the right wing, so that Fox News can put on its ticker tape in Times Square a vile attack on Michael Moore, and Susan Sarandon is a punchline.
Q: When the Susan Sarandons and Sean Penns speak out, they do so at some risk to their career options, don't they?
A: Ebert: There's an interesting pattern going on. When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining all my errors. I hardly ever get well-reasoned articles from the right. People just tell me to shut up. That's the message: "Shut up. Don't write anymore about this. Who do you think you are?"
Q: It's the Dixie Chicks impulse. One of the members of the group said she was ashamed to be from Texas where the President is from. And so, in what I consider a brownshirt tactic, some rightwing DJs organized gatherings where people literally stomped on Dixie Chick albums.
A: Ebert: It wasn't just some rightwing DJs. The New York Times reported that it was also organized by a radio conglomerate that had received a lot of favors from the Bush Administration in deregulation. So that was not a spontaneous outpouring. It's a shame. It's a shame. The right really wants to punish you for having an opinion.
http://tinyurl.com/s3yh5
Little Gun #2 Following the last debate, a CNN show featured the scholarly insights of that world-famous political analyst, Roger Ebert (that’s right - the television movie critic).
No, I’m not kidding -- and clearly neither was Ebert. This was not done as a joke or gag bit, Ebert was deadly serious in his shallow put-downs and cliché-ridden slams of Gov. Bush.
http://tinyurl.com/qsuzg
The Earth has reached a Tipper point...tipping point, mind you. Tipping! I always leave 20 percent, I know how hard working people have it these days...where was I, oh yes, the tipping point. And when it tips, it's not going to be pretty. We're talking entire oceans underwater, deserts hot and dry, polar caps covered with ice! And that's just the beginning. The Earth is in a climate cat..ass..trophy. I blame the Bush administration for drilling caribou up there in ANBAR...AKBAR...well that wildlife refuge up there, and it is reprehensible to drill caribou just so Republican fat cats and big oil can fill up their SUVs. I really won the popular vote in 2000. Did y'all know that? I'm technically the President! Yeah yeah, so where's my President hat? I'll tell you where my President hat is, it's in the environ...mentally friendly dry cleaners to be picked up in 2008! Yeeeauggghhh!
"Through his boorish, knee-jerk leftism, Ebert has become merely another Hollywood elitist thumbing his nose at America. Two thumbs down."
Source: Chris Reed Front Page Magazine http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9187
Roger Ebert: The Shrill Shill By Chris Reed FrontPageMagazine.com | August 1, 2003
The August issue of The Progressive is out, and, surprise, surprise: It features a TV star unloading on George W. Bush, craven Republicans and the evils of American capitalism in a way that makes Howard Dean seem downright restrained.
Ranting about how Bush stole the presidential election, is simultaneously a religious zealot and disrespectful to the Pope, and is both devious and a moron, the TV star can’t understand why the rest of America doesn’t agree with him.
“I think a lot of working-class people don’t understand their money is being stolen…[W]e’ve had a concerted policy of taking money away from the poor and giving it to the rich wholesale, and at the same time, we have the runaway corporations and the greed. I feel ordinary people really should be angry.”
Martin Sheen? Michael Moriarty? Janeane Garofalo?
Nope. It’s Roger Ebert, perhaps the best-known critic in the world, thanks to his durable weekly TV show and its thumbs-up, thumbs-down gimmick.
But Ebert has other personas besides the one he’s cultivated on television for nearly 30 years. There’s the Roger Ebert whose lucid, middlebrow reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times have made him arguably America’s most influential print film journalist. There’s the Ebert who once moonlighted as a writer for exploitation-film specialist Russ Meyers, getting the script credit on “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.”
And now, at age 60, there’s the James Carville-style demonizer who thinks the right is always wrong, and inevitably has appalling motives to boot.
This Ebert came to the fore in the fall of 2000, with his over-the-top raves for “The Contender,” writer-director Rod Lurie’s story about a female senator (played by Joan Allen) nominated to replace a dead vice president who nobly refuses to address Republican-spread rumors that she was involved in college orgies. Lurie’s labored attempt to equate the treatment of his heroine under fire with the treatement received by Bill Clinton after he was caught using the Oval Office to receive oral sex from a doltish intern was widely panned – except by Ebert. In his print review, after hamhanded shots at Republicans and Kenneth Star, Ebert called “The Contender” a four-star classic.
It’s been all downhill since. The lowlights:
-- His vicious depiction (in a July 2001, Sun-Times general-news column) of presidential daughter Barbara Bush as an ignorant “yob” on the loose in London. Given her idiot father, Ebert reasoned, what could one expect?
-- His relentless championing of “Bowling for Columbine,” Michael Moore’s latest agitprop masquerading as a documentary.
-- His tirade about George W. Bush’s alleged vicious insensitivity toward those on Texas’ Death Row in his print review this spring of “The Life of David Gale,” a melodrama about an anti-death-penalty crusader.
-- His likening of the Bill the Butcher character in “Gangs of New York” – a cleaver-waving, mass-murdering thug – to Katherine Harris. Ebert’s point, made on “Ebert & Roeper”: Both Bill the Butcher and Harris used whatever means possible to take and keep power. Even the Democratic National Committee comes up with more sophisticated insults disguised as insights.
It’s worth comparing Ebert’s reflexive right-bashing with the approach of Pauline Kael, the legendary New Yorker writer who was considered the nation’s most influential film critic in her heyday. The contrast does not flatter her successor.
Kael was a Manhattan liberal. She liked the protest movies of left-wing European filmmakers like Costa-Gavras and famously decried “Dirty Harry” as a “fascist” entertainment.
But Kael also had little patience for stridency from the left. She denounced Oliver Stone’s films as bombastic and didactic. And Kael, remember, was the journalist who more than any other helped expose Michael Moore for the propagandist he remains. Her New Yorker piece on the “gonzo demagoguery” of Moore’s maiden “documentary” – 1989’s “Roger & Me” – helped killed its chances at an Oscar.
Ebert, or at least his latest incarnation, is incapable of writing such a piece – or any piece whose politics wouldn’t be at home in Mother Jones. When it comes to American politics, you see, it’s the yobs vs. the smart guys. And if the smart guys smear or slander the yobs, well, so what? The yobs have it coming. Through his boorish, knee-jerk leftism, Ebert has become merely another Hollywood elitist thumbing his nose at America. Two thumbs down.
1 posted on 05/18/2004 6:45:22 AM PDT by KeyLargo
http://tinyurl.com/jcr5n
Wow, I never knew Roger Ebert was a moonbat.
Ebert's always been a pig, even after losing weight.
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