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To: GSlob; Borges

"much more needs to be done to counteract the pollution generated by Hollywood.""
As Michelangelo Buonarroti wrote some 440-something years ago, "Clear them out of your life as the scandalous and evil-living lot they are". Most certainly he must have meant them, for the description fits them to a "t". Clear them out of your life and boycott them and everyone who even remotely looks like them."

Yes, I agree. For my part, stars that use their position to spout their liberal message are not gettin my money. That is my prerogative, my right. They have a right to spout their liberalism, I have the right not to purchase their product, in this case a theater or movie ticket. Simple as that.

Borges: Your wrote: "I don't think Michaeangelo would endorse cutting the Arts out of your life". And "Would you prefer people abandon all entertainment and just do things that are absolutely needed for bare survival like in a Cyberpunk novel? :-)"

Michaelangelo would probably not consider Hollywood movies "art" :0> There are other forms of art that are much more edifying.


34 posted on 11/18/2006 1:03:23 AM PST by rotundusmaximus (1Kings19:18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baa)
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To: rotundusmaximus
Michaelangelo would probably not consider Hollywood movies "art" :0> There are other forms of art that are much more edifying.

Sure they are. Cinema is the primary artform of the 20th century. Whether it comes from Hollywood (which has produced more great Art then any other national cinema) or elsewhere.
36 posted on 11/18/2006 6:43:11 AM PST by Borges
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