LA SLIMES' NOTABLE OSCAR QUOTABLES -- NICOLE KIDMAN ON ONE SIDE... AND FR'S "RONDOG" ON THE OTHER!

LEFT ANGELES SLIMES

[AnnaZ]

So I finally start going through, page by page, the Oscar coverage in today's Slimes (that's right... still reading  it so that you don't have to). And then I almost had a heart attack.

 

The "E"/"Calendar Part 1" Section is dedicated to Oscar coverage, E1 starting it all off with a big pic of Best Actor winner Adrien Brody smooching presenter Halle Berry and the beginning of the story.

 

Following it in to E2 and E3, there are a bunch of huge picture of various winners from the night, the top of each page prefaced with a huge bold quote.

 

On the left side (heh, heh) is one quote: 

 

 

"Why do you come to the Academy Awards when the world is in such turmoil?

Because art is important."

 

Nicole Kidman, accepting the best actress award

 

 

 

On the right side (in more ways than one ;^) is another quote:

 

 

 

"If John Wayne was here, he'd be doing what we're doing.

He'd be supporting the troops."

 

Ron Smith, demonstrator at Hollywood and Highland

 

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS, RONDOG!!! You ROCK!!!

[AnnaZ]

I love that graph!

[xp38]

During the Clinton regime Canada in the form of it's PM Jean Chretien (he was the PM for almost the entire Clinton presidency) played lots of golf with x42. Chretien is still with us but only for another year. I don't think he's playing much golf with W. I'm not sure if W plays golf at all. Anyone know?

[AnnaZ]

Yes, but what they do is NOT art.

Oh, once in a while someone manages to pull off something beautiful and evocative. And sometimes the Academy even manages to notice. But even when they don't, the hands and minds and talents behind great films have the product of their perseverance to remind themselves.

 

O/T: For years after his death, many poor folk in France used Van Gogh's oiled canvases to stop the rain leaks in their creaky huts. At least, with modern communication, artists these days, if they're at all talented (and, unfortunately, sometimes when they're not), can find someone, somewhere who'll appreciate their work while they're still around to benefit.

[AnnaZ]

Hey, there!

[Heyworth]

Hollywood is by and large Leftists, who can and will and DO make life hard for Conservatives. And don't forget that they gave that pig Moore his reward for America bashing.

Do you know anyone who works in Hollywood? Not the few actors who get up and say stupid things on TV, but the rank and file of people whose names roll by on the end credits? Hollywood is by and large working class and middle class people who work hard at their jobs, many of them putting in 20 hour days when they're on a shoot. There was an article in the LA Times Saturday about pro-war feeling in the industry quoting Ben Stein talking about the behind-the-scenes people who are supporting the war effort. If nothing else, there's a lot of pro-Israel people who are delighted to see us attacking Iraq. Stop tarring all of Hollywood the statements of a few idiots unless you want to see all conservatives tarred with the comments of Buchanan or Raimondo or Rockwell or Duke.

Second, it wasn't Hollywood who gave that award to Moore. It was a couple of hundred mostly retired people from Beverly Hills who had the time to go to 5 mid-day screenings in order to see the nominated films.

[luckystarmom]

I didn't see a problem with her quote either. It didn't say she was for or against the war, but she said God Bless the people that had lost lives. That to me is a classy statement.

[AnnaZ]

It's okay, threads have a way of finding their own life.

And, boy, did this one ever. Go run a few errands and come back to the aftermath of a flame war. I miss everything.

[Saundra Duffy]

RonDog is awesome!!!!!!!

[AnnaZ]

The artist provides what life does not.

 

Maybe. I've always believed that great art imitates life. It takes a fleeting moment of beauty and immortalizes it, secures it, so that it can be experienced by others.

[AnnaZ]

Nice use of the standard Leftie euphemism. Progressive, yes! Like Cuba is "progressive", Soviet Russia during Stalin's reign was "progressive", North Korea is "progressive". We've heard that tune before, and you clever Commies just keep changing the lyrics!

 

xo!

[PhiKapMom]

LOL!!!!!!!!!! I love it!

[AnnaZ]

LOVE that sign! LOL!

 

Frame that page, Ron. You're big stuff.

[Heyworth]

I've always believed that great art imitates life. It takes a fleeting moment of beauty and immortalizes it, secures it, so that it can be experienced by others.

That's a pretty limited view of art. Picasso's Guernica hardly immortalizes a moment of beauty--it immortalizes a war crime, in fact--but would you deny that it's a great work of art? A Calder mobile is utterly abstract, and doesn't imitate anything in life, but would you deny that it creates an aesthetic experience in the viewer?

[CarmelValleyite]

Exactly -- who WAS that idiot yapping about Frida Kahlo and what she would've wanted??? He can be brave up there on stage since no one knows or cares who the hell he is!

As for Frida, how would that little on-stage fool know what a long-dead Mexican woman would've wanted?

[Revolting cat!]

The foreign category is "Foreign Language Film." The Pianist

Indeed. thanks for the correction. The Pianist, directed by a Polish speaking director, where at the end the main character comes out of city ruins wearing a German overcoat, shouting to the liberating Polish/Soviet soldiers: "Don't shoot! I'm Polish! I'm Polish!", which we are to understand: "Don't shoot, don't you see I'm speaking perfect American English, therefore I'm Polish!". You're right, the stink of American money is all over the film. (It is a great work, but...)

[CarmelValleyite]

W does play golf once in awhile... I've seen pictures

[Libertina]

BUMP for GREAT work RonDog and excellent quote!

Here is another...

Save our sovereignty. Dump the UN! Save our sanity. Dump the RATs! :)

[AnnaZ]

Hey, thanks for doing the dirty work for us. Just put it down as "show prep!" :-)

 

EXACTLY!! Ahhh, sacrifices, sacrifices.

 

;^)

[Heyworth]

Well, Frida's diaries, almost up to the day she died, are filled with "Viva Stalin!" "Viva Mao!" I think it's pretty safe to guess where she would have come down on this one.

[FloridaBoy]

I don't have a problem with Nichole Kidman's remarks either. ( and you had to read it in a paper?)