10-07-2003, 08:30 AM | #11 |
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Heya Barry! Been a long time! [img]graemlins/wavey.gif[/img] How are you?
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10-07-2003, 08:33 AM | #12 | |
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Example: I disagree a lot with the views of Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, but I still respect their views because I know they actually spend time learning about the situations they are commenting on rather than just providing sound-byte lip-service. The same goes for Dennis Miller. He can be very sarcastic in his criticism, but he has also done his research before hand. The ones that I dismiss are those like Alec Baldwin who pop off with comments like "If George Bush is elected President, I'll move out of the country" {he didn't} and George Clooney {who decided to make a very insulting and insensitive joke about Charlton Heston developing Alzheimer's because he doesn't like Heston being involved with the NRA}. As for Ahnold, I also wonder exactly what qualifications he has to be governer and run a state - other than being very popular. Then again, Gray Davis supposedly was "qualified" and he hasn't done that well either (looking from the outside, anyway). Also, Jessie "The Body" Ventura was elected governer of Minnesota a few years back as an Independent. Prior to that, he was best known as a flamboyant pro wrestler. I don't know how good a job did as governer. He had a tremendous amount of public support the first couple of years, but that waned quickly after the first couple of years. Then many of the same people that elected him were making public outcries to get rid of him. In a rather ironic twist, there is a commercial featuring him that pokes fun at the various occupations of the candidates that signed up for the California Recall Race.
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10-07-2003, 08:38 AM | #13 |
Jack Burton
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I think people see actors as actors rather than people. We look at Arnold Schwarzenegger, and we see a bodybuilder who has played the Terminator, Conan the Barbarian etc. We look at Robin Williams, and we see a guy who has played a comedian in multiple movies.
When an actor states something politically or socially we see them in yet another role, and that's what I think is the feeling that makes many oppose to Schwarzenegger trying to become governor. |
10-07-2003, 08:48 AM | #14 | |
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10-07-2003, 08:52 AM | #15 |
Jack Burton
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Yeah I noticed a couple of your posts, but never really realised that you weren't around that much anymore. [img]smile.gif[/img] I'm fine, thanks. Little bit busy with rowing and university, but nevertheless I'll survive
I even saw Hiram Sedai around yesterday Talk about ancient relics! [ 10-07-2003, 08:53 AM: Message edited by: Link ] |
10-07-2003, 09:06 AM | #16 |
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I know, we're all here... we lie in wait like wolves... waiting... interminably waiting...
I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me there.
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10-07-2003, 11:22 AM | #18 |
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To be honest, I really don't care about Arnold, as long as the entire show stays on the other side of the ocean!!
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10-07-2003, 01:14 PM | #20 | |
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... when you see more than two streakers in the same day. [img]graemlins/laugh3.gif[/img] I swear it. When I was in London for an American football exhibition (Chicago Bears vs Dallas Cowboys), I saw three streakers that same day. One in the Trafalgar Square, another on a busy intersection, and one during halftime IN the game. What a day. |
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