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+JMJ+
True story from my corner of the world:
Hillary Clinton was in Manila last week, and one of the things she did was visit a public school. She went around greeting students and then gave a speech to the whole student body. After she left, reporters interviewed some of the girls who had shaken hands with her, and they all gushed, “Wow! We had no idea that she was so beautiful!”
Your kidding me Em……..now I too have a headache. Floyd…have anymore of those magic percocet pills?
Just kicked this idiots butt who showed up at a different forum lobbying for Will Smith as Rapp. In a normal world you could say the reason why Smith is a bad choice is because Smith is black and Mitch is white…thats a reason. Biggest one. God I hate political correctness. Its bs!
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Stephanie, how could I have possibly made that up?!?!?
You know what? Everyone has their moments I bet. Maybe she truly… who am I kidding? Those kids are whack!
Steph… not that I disagree because I don’t in principal… but with the Rapp character is there something inherently “white” about — by which I mean is he Boston Irish Catholic or something or does he have a background where a Will Smith could play him if he played it straight up as opposed to “street” which is what many directors seem to have black actors do?
I’m not sure if I asked that right…
German Irish………….where do you get african in that. The idiot is a black woman…..she was going on a bout how bankable, popular etc so what I did was post the top ten numbers and what movies they were from this year. Smith was not in any of them. I offered her a moment I said if bankable is the real reason your so hot into SMith why not Optimist Prime……….
Floyd,I don’t presume to speak for Stephanie (God forbid),but I think that Vince Flynn (undoubtedly an American of Irish heritage)intended his protagonist to be a white man
Scott… that’s what I was getting at. It’d be like a white Othello or Shaft. Those men are supposed to be Black men of a certain attitude and culture. It’d be better if Hollywood wanted a Black James Bond or Jack Ryan type that they’d just commission a good script or someone would write a good novel.
Open Thread, classic Hollywood star … I realize I’m not in Cali at the moment (or Kansas), but Big Hollywood’s not strong-arming their way in here, are they? If so, they do realize we very openly advertise the Radio Free Threedonia segments, right?
Like I said Mitch is supposed to be German and Irish….
But Stephanie…black is good,white is bad
well he won’t take the part anyway but the whole idea is stupid…
I honestly cannot think of an actor suited for Rapp. They don’t make ‘em like they used to…
I saw over at Ain’t It Cool News that Clooney was being considered for the Rapp role, or was it at Movie Poopshoot dot com?
Ok thats worse….Clooney…..I think that could invite mass suicide. Considering he can’t open a dog food factory and he hates the CIA…awesome…great idea.
Gag…I’d rather have Miley Cyrus take a shot at it
Don’t give Hollywierd ideas. The problem with allowing a novel to be optioned is that some asshat like Michael Bay or Brian DePalma and take your hard work and do whatever they like to it. I really feel bad for Vince on this issue. He has made a lot of money but its the principal of the issue. He has talked at a length about how out of touch Hollywood is with the rest of the country and he has echoed a lot of what we have said, albeit in a nicer, more gentle way…
I’m really wishing I had pictures but the description will have to do. My good friends brother got married this weekend, they are huge HUGE Ayn Rand fans. Their wedding cake was a tribute to Atlas Shrugged and they gave away the book, along with a statement of their beliefs, to guests of the wedding. The bottom tier of the cake said, “who is John Galt?”, the second layer had a picture of the steam engine and on the top was a globe. Cracked me up. I’m all for creative and personal expression in your ceremonies, but wow….
+JMJ+
Tracy, I wish you had pictures, too!
Did they destroy the cake because they can’t bear to have such beauty exist in this world?
That’s cool because if they made the cake themselves they had to pay no sales tax in Texas on the groceries used to make it. If they had the cake made they paid sales tax on it as a service? What would John Galt do?
Great googlie-mooglie! “along with a statement of their beliefs?” Mrs. Firefly and I planned our wedding around making sure our guests had a good time. We didn’t view them as a captive audience that we could conform to our beliefs. I guess we didn’t really understand what the word “guest” means…
For fans of Weird Al, here’s his list of the most underrated funny songs of all time.
Mike you have just as well asked Eric to marry you with that link.
A list with Styx? Sorry, Floyd, that was my first marriage.
not the Best of Times eh Eric?
Yup, the less than Paradise Theatre.
If only you had a crystal ball.
It was a grand illusion, but your fooling yourself if you don’t believe it. Don’t let it end you blue collar man.
You pilot the bad ass chopper, so I’m humbled and scared. Either way, definitely way too much time on your hands.
Enbrethiliel: Here’s a theory: It’s generally believed that women (and, I assume, girls) find power the sexiest thing on earth. Maybe that applies as much to powerful women as to men.
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I really don’t know about that. They honestly seemed to think she was pretty. It must have been the blond hair.
Tracy,nice they gave away copies of Atlas Shrugged….now their guests won’t have to buy toilet paper for a year.
And don’t forget the statement of beliefs. I’ll use that to line my birdcage.
The French President Sarkozy gave Clint Eastwood the Legion of Honor.
I am watching THE PRISONER on AMC. Interesting show.
No spoilers I’m DVRing the late showings.
So I shouldn’t tell you about _________ or how Number 2 is planning to ____________________ or how Number 1 really is ___________________?
Those kind of spoilers?
(Nothing spoiled, really, I pulled those out of my rump)
Bruce Springsteen just gave a concert in Michigan and yelled repeatedly to the crowd, “Hello, Ohio!” Hee hee.
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=441858>1=28103
It appears to me Mr. Springsteen smoked far too much of the Halflings leaf…
By the way, look up and you’ll see a picture of a guy who could play Mitch Rapp. Adam Baldwin would be perfect.
Lars I like Baldwin for Scott Coleman….but he could pull off Rapp to. Good idea..