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Topic subjectc'mon now...
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163143, c'mon now...
Posted by Calico, Wed Mar-15-06 05:17 PM
>that Hollywood is made up of stereotypical lightweight
>liberals, that they aren't genuinley progressive. She's not
>saying discussion of racism is obsolete but that the broad and
>insultingly cursory insight into it that Crash offers would be
>clearly outdated to anyone who could genuinely claim to be
>progressive.

it's fucking hollywood...majority of the time folks are just tryin to make money, sometimes they have a "point" in that money making scheme but often times not...to say that she's just realizin that people in hollywood could be full of shit lets me know she needs the mother of all late passes...i rarely see anything progressive about hollywood, and CMac is right, she needs to let this one go..even if crash isn't such a great film...

>In contrast Brokeback Mountain can tell a complex and
>unapolegitic story about a Gay relationship without resorting
>to the kind of broad "gay people are people too!" lessons
>movies like Philadelphia were obliged to over a decade ago.
>
>She's bitter about losing to a piece of shit, not losing in
>general. There's nothing wrong with that. She'd probably be
>irked if she had nothing to do with the awards like a load of
>other people are. Cronenberg chimed in with the same sentiment
>last week.

yeah, but she sould be mad she hasn't womn any literary awards, or that BM didn't win best sceeplay (or did it?) i can understand her pisstivity, but she should move on after this statement...