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David --
I have no interest in pagentry. I want to see relief for the suffering people of Palestine.
I want to see Barack Obama make history by changing his position on Israel's terror attack on Gaza from "no comment" to forceful condemnation, and when he assumes office, suspending all aid to Israel, and demanding that they cease their cruel oppression of the Palestinian people, and negotiate, in good faith, a two state solution.
Matt --
Barack Obama will be sworn in as President of the United States of America on January 20th, 2009.
It will be an unprecedented event in the history of our country, and hundreds of thousands of people will come together in Washington, D.C. to share the moment.
Supporters like you made this happen. You know that real change comes from the bottom up, not from the top down, and Barack and Joe want you to join them on this historic day. They want to start off this administration with the people who worked so hard and will continue to fight for change with them.
Between now and January 8th, 10 supporters and their guests will be selected to join the Inaugural activities.
If you make a donation -- in any amount -- to make the Inauguration a success, you and a guest could be flown to Washington, D.C., put up in a hotel, and be there as Barack is sworn in as the 44th President.
Make a donation of $5 or more right now. You and a guest could receive your ticket to history.
Unlike past inaugurations, this year's event will not be paid for by Washington lobbyists or corporations.
This campaign was funded by 4 million ordinary people giving only what they could afford, and Barack and Joe are counting on you again. Help start this administration off right -- independent of the special interest donors who have shaped Washington for too long.
This Inauguration will be open to as many Americans as possible. We'll all come together to celebrate the hope and optimism that define this movement for change.
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Thank you,
David
David Plouffe
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Here's the link at http://Discovery. that I thought you'd be interested in seeing. Personal message for you from Rick: "I knew it. I just knew it! I tell ya, I knew it. I tell ya, I just knew it." We hope you'll stop by http://Discovery. ... and that you'll enjoy the feature that Rick chose for you! |
I submitted a new question: "You say you have answered the questions from the first round of "Open For Questions." Where are the answers? I don't see any response from the Obama Transition Team to the excellent questions the American people have posted on this site."
Had they given me more space, I would have gone on to say "why are you so far behind the American people on the issues? Why can't they be president instead of you?"
Dear Matt,
We recently launched a new feature on Change.gov called Open for Questions. Thousands of you responded, asking 10,000 questions and voting nearly a million times on questions from others.
Now that we've answered some of the most popular ones from the last round, we are open for questions again. Ask whatever you like, and vote up or down on the other questions to let us know which ones you most want the Transition to answer.
Get started now at http://change.gov/openforquest .ions
We're looking forward to learning about what you want to know.
Thanks,
John
John D. Podesta
Co-Chair
Obama-Biden Transition Project
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Hey Heather,
Sorry for the delay in your post getting to the list - for some reason Yahoo flagged it as "potential spam" and only just now saw it, and sent it through.
Even a spam flagging algorithm should have been able to see that you post was not spam, but in fact a very astute commentary on Our Movie.
I do believe that studio execs sabotaging Ishtar was one factor in it's box office failure. The guy that directed Mystery Men said the same thing. If a director gets into conflict with the studio, they'll hang him/her out to dry, no matter how many millions of dollars are at stake.
I've heard down through the years on many occasions that capitalists will always act to maximize their profits, and that endless wealth accumulation benefits us all, yadda yadda yadda.
Well, these guys are human like all of us, with bigger egos than most. They will quite willingly shoot themselves, and their companies in the foot when their ego gets involved. I can't count the number of articles I've read about up and coming musicians and authors who were kicked to the curb because the guy that brought them to the label / publishing house was replaced, and the new guy neglected the old guy's signings... solely for the reason that they were the old guy's proteges.
Of course, that doesn't explain why there is no DVD in the US (there is most everywhere else). I think that SONY bosses are concerned that a movie that portrays the CIA as bad guys and Arab insurgents as good guys would offend American sensitivities. Just my opinion.
If I was remaking Ishtar, I'd go a different direction with the casting. I'd emphasize how these guys are just ordinary schlubs... I'd cast Paul Giamatti as Clarke, and ... wow, I'm coming up short on Rogers. How about David Cross and Bob Odenkirk from Mr. Show? They're already a matched set.
I might pursue the exotic notion of casting somebody actually from the middle east to play Shirra Assel...
thanks for posting that.
i just joined the list yesterday so clicked around to see the other images and found the review by this michael giltz fellow, which is astounding in its abject shallowness and totally literal reading of this great and subtle comedy! aside from the blatantly sexist comments (did it *really* set "women" directors back ten years?), the guy complains that the songs are bad(!) and that he's subjected to a LOT of them. like...um. duh?
i hadn't seen it in at least 10 years but watched it on christmas day with my boyfriend, who had claimed to be a fan--what a great bonding experience: turns out we were both impressed at how much better it was than we'd recalled it! i hadn't remembered the cinematography being so artful (i googled it to learn that vittorio storaro had won oscars for reds, last emperor and apocalypse now, had NO idea) and that the humor held up, lo these 21 years! i know i'm preaching to the choir on this list, but it's such a sad story on one hand (the studio head who comes in halfway through shooting, has a grudge against warren beatty and dustin hoffman, is curmudgeonly about it being overbudget and the LADY director and leaks negativity to the press pre-release thus ensuring bad reviews) and yet, had it not been so universally reviled, folks probably wouldn't have such a proud and almost defiant allegiance to this movie, which, to my mind, is on par with any cult comedy classic like 'caddyshack', 'meatballs', or 'airplane', totally ahead of its time. i am not exaggerating!
if so-called "uncomfortable" humor like the office or seinfeld had already been part of cultural consciousness, it probably would have been hugely popular, but folks just didn't know how to deal with something so subtle and self-consciously "bad".
my dream is for a remake. with hm...matt damon and ben affleck, and maybe angelina jolie?
okay, in your wildest dreams, who would you have play lyle and chuck? i know this is a blatant attempt to get some activity on this list, but hey, it's after xmas and before new years, what else are you doing?
kind regards,
heatherOn Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:48 PM, n8binus <n8binus@yahoo.com > wrote:
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> You have to squint a bit to read this poster, but it's worth the
> effort. Here's more evidence that several reviewers liked Ishtar...
> before, for whatever reason, people figured out they better say they
> hated it...
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Yo Matt,
The attachment is "not stored". (We can't see the poster)
-N8
