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September 23, 2005

How the mighty have fallen

A friend who works in film emails me:

I went to a seminar tonight starring a Hollywood dinosaur.

Norman Jewison (Canadian moonbat director, about 80 years old), wants to do a new satire of America in the war on terror.

He did one of the Cold War (So SILLY of us dumb Americans to be WORRIED about COMMUNISTS!) in 1965, called "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" I didn't realize that was meant to be trenchant commentary on the Cold War. Eh, bien...

The new movie? "The Arabs Are Coming! The Arabs Are Coming!"

Brilliant, hunh?

He told the moonbat audience tonight (Nodding their heads like bobble-head dolls) that
A) Americans are too dense to appreciate foreign movies, and that's why we don't go, B) Canadians are much more sophisticated about this, C) corporations are the root of all evil, D) that terrorism is trumped up by Republicans, E) that Communism was never a threat, F) that "Rollerball" was a satire of a corporate-ruled future.

Actually, his remarks about "Rollerball" were the weirdest. He said "In this future, the corporations rule the world. There's no poverty, there's no war, there are no nations. BUT there's Rollerball every Saturday night!"

I thought he was going to praise the corps. for realizing the Communist Utopia. But no. "They had VIOLENCE as ENTERTAINMENT! Violence!" he ranted.

Erm, isn't that what Hollywood has been peddling for years, Normie? What synapse is missing from your alleged brain?

Oh, and he was disgusted with the American response to the movie--he said a lot of folks wrote to ask him what the rules of the game were. ;-)))

He also spent about 40 minutes Whining about the state of "art" in the "current climate of fear...I've never seen it this bad." [cue ominous music] Why? because no one wants to produce "politically aware work." His kind of course.

He then claimed he was daring and brave to film "In the Heat of the Night," in 1966. Someone in the audience asked if he got any backlash to the film, and he said tersely, "No." In 1966, folks, I was in North Carolina, going to a fully integrated elementary school in a small town (pop. 45,000). 30% black, 70% white. No riots. Gee, some nerve this Canuck had, doing that movie in that climate of fear!

And he blamed Bush for the current state of the movie industry. And said Americans "have to stop calling ALL Middle Easterners terrorists. It's so Racist."

Next, an anecdote that "proves" that "everybody's fighting everybody: "I saw a white man on 59th Street punching a cab driver who looked like he was of Pakistani descent." Of course, we didn't get to hear why--Jewison, a bigot against Americans, assumed that it was racism, and doesn't smell his own hypocrisy.

And he mentioned Michael Moore as "the hope of the future of film." [hurl]

A moral idiot.


He made some great movies. Sigh.

Judith | 09/23/05 at 11:26 AM | Categories: - Useful idiots

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Damn, I really enjoy Fiddler on the Roof. I even listened to the entire DVD commentary track featuring...him. I can't help it. It'll never be the same. (Not Jewish, BTW)

Solomon | September 23, 2005 10:27 PM

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