Robert Altman Drools on Self

From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2001 2:20 PM

Veteran film director Robert Altman has blamed
Hollywood and George Bush Jr. for "inspiring"
the recent attacks on the US. "Nobody would
have thought to commit an atrocity like that
unless they'd seen it in a movie," said Altman,
who also directed MASH and The Player, "and
they wouldn't have done it if Al Gore had been
rightfully elected President."

Violent blockbusters "taught them how to do it"
and Hollywood must now stop showing mass
destruction in movies, he said. "It's much
better to create socially relevant, non-violent
movies even if they star Barbara Streisand and
nobody wants to watch them."

"The movies set the pattern, and these people
have copied the movies," added Altman, who is
still living in the US despite having promised
to leave if Bush was elected. "And with Nazis
like Bush in the white house it's no wonder
that terrorists are attacking us. It's unfair
and America should be punished."

The 76-year-old Oscar-nominated clearly-senile
director said violent action films with big
explosions, car chases and gunplay - usually
targeted at young men - amount to training films
for foreigners who don't see that sort of thing
in their boring and depressing domestic films.

"How dare we continue to show this kind of mass
destruction in movies? We should have more
scenes with men kissing men.

"I just believe we created this atmosphere and
taught them how to do it. We could just as easily
made movies that would make them all turn gay."

--
*
Moesha seizes a fresh slice of chef Elise's
greasy fish quiche and mischievously mashes
and squishes it on the Joseph piece of the
fascist police chief's cheezy French crèche.
*
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Subject: Re: Robert Altman Drools on Self
From: "St. Marc the Perpetually Amused" <disciple@templeoferis.org>

Speaking of him, did he move out of the country like he promised to do if
Dubya won? Should we maybe take up a collection to help with the moving
expenses?

St. Marc
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Subject: Re: Robert Altman Drools on Self
From: "Alliekatt" <alleykatzen@hotmail.com>

"nu-monet" <nothing@succeeds.com> wrote in message
news:3BCDCBEB.5A26@succeeds.com...

> "I just believe we created this atmosphere and
> taught them how to do it. We could just as easily
> made movies that would make them all turn gay."

Well seeing that gay men get laid more often, they would probably have more
fun cornholing than lying on sharp rocks and waiting to throw grenades.
Nothing like a touchy-feely Hollywood men's liberation movie to make your
uptight fag-roller neighbor get bold enough to suck some dick and feel good
about it.

alliekatt
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Subject: Re: Robert Altman Drools on Self
From: rlan538885@aol.comnobozos (RLan538885)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2001 4:11 PM

>Speaking of him, did he move out of the country like he promised to do if
>Dubya won?

There is the escape clause. Dumbya didn't *win*. He stole.

"100,000 lemmings can't be wrong"
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Subject: Re: Robert Altman Drools on Self
From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>

For the record, from "Salon" Magazine"

...On Sept. 22, Altman also retracted his statement, again
in the Daily News: "Here's what I really said. I said that
if Bush gets elected, I'll move to Paris, Texas, because
the state will be better off if he's out of it."

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From: rlan538885@aol.comnobozos (RLan538885)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2001 5:08 PM

The "consortium" of press organizations which reviewed the Florida ballots was
supposed to release the results a few weeks ago.

They collectively decided not to do so. Their collective excuse is that they
are "too busy" covering the 'crisis."

Now would they be "too busy" if they were going to AFFIRM that Dumbya is the
duly elected President? Of course not!

"100,000 lemmings can't be wrong"
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From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>

I'd only disagree with the suggestion that they
would *ever* come out one way or the other--
instead of just whining and equivocating and
bitching--leaning this way and that.

But most of all trying to stretch it out to get
as many stories out of it as possible without
having to work.

Remember that these are the same people who, for
the most part, are just happy to reprint whatever
dreck comes flying out of their fax machine each
day. Press releases they reprint without any
analysis or consideration, objectivity or
subjectivity.

All they do is snip off the headers: "From the
campaign of Pat Buchanan"; "The National Right to
Gun Down Faggots"; "Extraterrestrials for Anal
Implants, Inc."; etc.

Either that or just crank out whatever comes off
the AP wire.

The only "news" people who personally like
controversy are the "sob sisters": columnists
who live by inciting the locals with inflammatory
bullshit. It doesn't matter what they write, just
as long as the hate mail rolls in. Most newspapers
have one. But only one.

Some of them have even been caught sending themselves
hate mail to wave under their editor's nose.

"See, see! I'm doing good! People hate me!"

Subject: Re: Robert Altman Drools on Self
From: blatzbeer@niggersInTheCornfield.com (salty the slug)

Do you ever wish you worked at Burger King?

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