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PSGator66 · 02-28-2013, 01:52 PM

This is so true and Dennis Miller has been around long enough to know....

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywo...od-now-the-man

wgbgator · 02-28-2013, 01:58 PM

Hollywood, "fighting the power" 1930-1968:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_...roduction_Code

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Resolved, That those things which are included in the following list shall not appear in pictures produced by the members of this Association, irrespective of the manner in which they are treated:

1.Pointed profanity – by either title or lip – this includes the words "God," "Lord," "Jesus," "Christ" (unless they be used reverently in connection with proper religious ceremonies), "hell," "damn," "Gawd," and every other profane and vulgar expression however it may be spelled;
2.Any licentious or suggestive nudity-in fact or in silhouette; and any lecherous or licentious notice thereof by other characters in the picture;
3.The illegal traffic in drugs;
4.Any inference of sex perversion;
5.White slavery;
6.Miscegenation (sex relationships between the white and black races);
7.Sex hygiene and venereal diseases;
8.Scenes of actual childbirth – in fact or in silhouette;
9.Children's sex organs;
10.Ridicule of the clergy;
11.Willful offense to any nation, race or creed;
And be it further resolved, That special care be exercised in the manner in which the following subjects are treated, to the end that vulgarity and suggestiveness may be eliminated and that good taste may be emphasized:

1.The use of the flag;
2.International relations (avoiding picturizing in an unfavorable light another country's religion, history, institutions, prominent people, and citizenry);
3.Arson;
4.The use of firearms;
5.Theft, robbery, safe-cracking, and dynamiting of trains, mines, buildings, etc. (having in mind the effect which a too-detailed description of these may have upon the moron);
6.Brutality and possible gruesomeness;
7.Technique of committing murder by whatever method;
8.Methods of smuggling;
9.Third-degree methods;
10.Actual hangings or electrocutions as legal punishment for crime;
11.Sympathy for criminals;
12.Attitude toward public characters and institutions;
13.Sedition;
14.Apparent cruelty to children and animals;
15.Branding of people or animals;
16.The sale of women, or of a woman selling her virtue;
17.Rape or attempted rape;
18.First-night scenes;
19.Man and woman in bed together;
20.Deliberate seduction of girls;
21.The institution of marriage;
22.Surgical operations;
23.The use of drugs;
24.Titles or scenes having to do with law enforcement or law-enforcing officers;
25.Excessive or lustful kissing, particularly when one character or the other is a "heavy."[16]

corpgator · 02-28-2013, 02:03 PM

Hahahaha, Hollywood has never fought the power - they have always been the power. It's all about perpetuating the myth that life is all fine and dandy.

VAg8r1 · 02-28-2013, 03:49 PM

Gotta love Breitbart, and Dennis Miller too, for that matter. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Contrary to what the representations of Brietbart and Miller, Michelle Obama's appearance was not the first time an administration has participated in the Oscars. Seems that Brietbart, once again, correctly assumed that its readers would accept its representations as being accurate regardless of the truth.

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In fact, former presidents and former First Lady Laura Bush have participated in Academy Awards ceremonies. In 2002, Bush appeared at the Oscars in a taped appearance.

From the Chicago Tribune:

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The documentary history montage was put together by director Penelope Spheeris, whose remarkable "Decline of Western Civilization" rock documentaries likely have never been even close to nominated.

And the show's marvelous "What do the movies mean to you?" opening segment was done by director Errol Morris, whose groundbreaking work, from "Thin Blue Line" through "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control," has also been criminally neglected.

It was bracing to see people from Laura Bush to Jerry Brown to Mikhail Gorbachev interviewed, and mind-bending to hear film titles such as Russ Meyer's "Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill" and William Castle's "The Tingler" mentioned on usually sacrosanct Oscar airspace.

In 1981, President Reagan taped an appearance for the Oscars. From The New York Times:

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But now that Mr. Reagan has moved on to another profession, he's been invited to appear on the Academy Awards program on March 30.

The President will remain in the White House and tape a brief greeting to the audience at the Oscar ceremonies, and his words will be televised early in the awards show.

''President Reagan was once a member of our industry and it seemed fitting for him to join us,'' said Norman Jewison, producer of this year's show.

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JerseyGator01 · 02-28-2013, 05:22 PM

Obama: the little guy's Prez.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

108 · 03-01-2013, 09:07 AM

ironic consider favorite con president, the actor Ronald Reagan, who brought in the big money establishment like no other with his "trickle-down"

orangeblueorangeblue · 03-01-2013, 09:21 AM

I think the Reagan comparisons would be fair if, you know, Michelle Obama was formerly a movie star.

JerseyGator01 · 03-01-2013, 06:09 PM

Michelle's better than a movie star. She's a rock star just like Hillary according to MSNBC, CBS, NYT, WP, ABC, NBC, CNN, NPR ...

VAg8r1 · 03-01-2013, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by orangeblueorangeblue

I think the Reagan comparisons would be fair if, you know, Michelle Obama was formerly a movie star.

Reagan was; as far as I could determine, Laura Bush was not formerly a movie star.