On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 08:40:46 -0800 Gar Lipow <lipowg at sprintmail.com>
writes:
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>"Nathan Newman" <nathan.newman at yale.edu> wrote on Sun, 21 Mar 1999
>21:38:39 -0500
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>>Just caught Chris Rock presenting at the Oscars. In his intro to a
>"sound effects editing", he took the chance to tell the following
>joke:
>
>>"Controversial Oscar night..We've got the Kazan thing. Robert DeNiro
>is
>back stage and they had to keep him away from Kazan, since we all know
>DeNiro hates rats."
>
>>Rock Rules!
>
>Yeah -- he also pointed out the small number of black and large number
>of white faces in the audience. "It looks like the million white man
>march out there". You are right. Chris Rock rules.
>
>I thought it was a dirty shame that DeNiro actually presented Kazan
>with his Oscar. At least Nick Nolte and Ed Harris folded their arms.
>
>Now that the tradition has been established, I suggest that next years
>lifetime achievement award should go to Leni Riefenstahl ...
Now that we have been told that the proper criteria for the awarding of lifetime achievement Oscars is strictly the artistic merit of the person's work, and nothing else, there now can be no principled objection to the Academy's giving this award to Rifenstahl, even though she was a Nazi pig.
Jim Farmelant
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>- --Nathan Newman
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