Posted on 06/10/2006 11:26:50 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Ebert decided some years ago to join the political Hollyweird crowd.
Ebert was pushing that lunatic Gore in 2000. Like I'm going to pay any attention to ANYTHING he has to say?
"It wasn't a mistake to the estimated 2 million southeast Asians who died in communist purges after the US left."
The figure I heard for South Vietnamese murdered after the Communist takeover was about 300,000. Where do you get 2 million?
It isn't exactly like he has a lot left to lose:
"Roger Ebert to Have More Cancer Surgery
Thursday June 1 11:48 AM ET
Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert, who has battled cancer in recent years, will undergo cancer surgery again, according to a published report.
In Thursday's Chicago Sun-Times, where Ebert has been the movie critic for nearly 40 years, columnist Robert Feder reported that Ebert will have surgery June 16 to remove a cancerous growth on his salivary gland.
"It's not life threatening, and I expect to make a full recovery," the 63-year-old critic and host of the nationally syndicated movie review show, "Ebert & Roeper," told Feder. "I'll continue to function as a film critic during this time."
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Ebert has undergone cancer surgery three times before once in 2002 to remove a malignant tumor on his thyroid gland and twice on his salivary gland the next year.
But Feder reported that Ebert is not expected to require radiation treatment as he did when he underwent the previous procedures.
"This is known as a slow-growing and persistent cancer," Ebert said. "You live with it."
Ebert recently returned from the Cannes Film Festival in France. He said he plans to tape enough shows with Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper that the program will continue to air during his recovery.
Ebert has been a film critic at the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967. He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1975, the same year he teamed up with Gene Siskel of the rival Chicago Tribune to launch their movie-review show. Siskel died in 1999."
"I don't have the slightest idea whether Oliver Stone knows who killed President John F. Kennedy. I have no opinion on the factual accuracy of his 1991 film ``JFK.'' I don't think that's the point."Indeed it's not. I am struck while reading this by the hypocrisy of the left that whines about "McCarthyism" because it allegedly unfairly accused people of disloyalty but blithely support decades of knowingly false accusations of treason and murder conspiracy in the JFK case.
Ever hear of a place called "Cambodia"? Well, it's in Southeast Asia. And a few people died there too, I hear.
Yeah...yeah! In fact, what we need is a sixth service, one that just focuses on cleanup operations after the rest of the military beats the crap out of the organized opposition.
"Boy, there's three winners. I can't wait to see that film."
No kidding, how did Tim Robbins, Alec Baldwin, and Sean Penn miss out on cameos in that one?
ROFLMAO! Every time I think of that movie I think of the lampooning they did of that crappy show in Team America, World Police--second time on this thread that movie relates, and I SWEAR I am not hijacking it! They did a faux-musical called "Lease," and sang this song right at the start of the movie (every bit as subtle as Rent):
Everyone has AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS!
Everyone has AIDS!
And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from AIDS
It took from me my best friend
My only true pal
My only bright star (he died of AIDS)
Well I'm gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There's a hero inside of all of us
I'll make them see everyone has AIDS
My father (AIDS!)
My sister (AIDS!)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
Everyone has AIDS!
My grandma and my dog 'Ol Blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
C'mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
We gotta break down these barricades, everyone has
AIDS!
Rent is a hugely popular Broadway show. A modern day rethinking of La Boheme. It's not surprising that there was a movie made from it.
But it was a great film. There's a very high level of craftsmanship there. It's not a documentary but a fever dream about the national paranoia about those events. No one claims it's historically accurate.
Well put.
Roger's bouts of ill health are the main reason for the inconsistency of his writing of late. There are times over the past five or six years where his writing style lacks the flow, the wit and the ability to explain and argue a postion well, things which he was long famous for. But he's still provided some excellent film writing, especially for his regular Great Movies columns.
When it comes to movies he's an expert. His commentaries on the Citizen Kane and Casablanca DVDs are models of the practice and must be heard by anyone who loves those movies.
I've seen the anti-war movement up close and personal in downtown Chicago
when I was discharged from the Navy in '69.
I was cursed at, yelled at, ridiculed, and denied entrance
to Nortwestern University simply because I was a Viet Nam Vet.
Then, as now, my support for the 1st amendment and free speech remains the same.
One thing HAS changed, if I see an anti-war protestor
HARMING anyone in the military OR anyone who supports our country,
OR damaging government or personal property
I will personally exercise my right to defend my country from those who seek to destroy it.
49 posted on 09/25/2001 9:05:36 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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