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23 Mar 03 - 11:37 AM (#916511) Subject: Your Wartime Oscars! From: Peter T. Allright, listen up. Time to vote on Your Wartime Oscars. BEST PICTURE DEMONSTRATING PREEMPTIVE ATTACK Chicago ("both picked up the gun") Pearl Harbor ("We had no choice. We were losing our hold over regional oil to those imperialist Yankees") The Graduate ("Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?") and.... BEST ACTOR IN A "FINALLY HAD TO PUT ON THE GUNS" THOUGH I HAD SWORN THEM OFF ROLE Jimmy Stewart in Destry Rides Again Alan Ladd in Shane Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven John Wayne in The Quiet Man and.... BEST ACTRESS IN A "I HATE YOU YOU BIG AMERICAN LUG" ROLE Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man Jean Arthur in Only Angels Have Wings Jennifer Jones in Love Is A Many Splendored Thing Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Desert and.... (More to come) |
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23 Mar 03 - 11:44 AM (#916517) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: Rick Fielding I need some humour after what I've been listening to all morning, but I don't feel very witty right now. Will try to participate later Peter. Rick |
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23 Mar 03 - 11:50 AM (#916520) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: Peter T. Hmm, probably the film was Duel in the Sun. Anyway, BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A WORSHIPFUL COLONIAL POSE Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause Sam Jaffee in Gunga Din Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia and.... BEST NEAT MASS KILLING OR EXPLOSIONS IN A MOVIE WITHOUT BLOOD Star Wars (all episodes) Independence Day ....... |
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23 Mar 03 - 11:56 AM (#916521) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: Peter T. BEST "THIS IMPERIAL STUFF IS SURE A HECK OF A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN WE THOUGHT GOING IN" MOVIE Gunga Din The Three Feathers Zulu Khartoum King of Kings Marie Walevska The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and.... |
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24 Mar 03 - 02:15 AM (#916832) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: Hrothgar BEST ACTOR IN A "FINALLY HAD TO PUT ON THE GUNS" THOUGH I HAD SWORN THEM OFF ROLE: is Coop in "High Noon" - by the length of the straight. ... and do we give Grace Kelly the award for the PACIFIST FORCED INTO KILLING PEOPLE? The best way to support our troops is to bring them home. |
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24 Mar 03 - 03:38 AM (#916857) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: katlaughing Doesn't Ronnie Raygun get nominated for anything? |
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24 Mar 03 - 05:14 AM (#916884) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: Nigel Parsons Okay: a special nomination for Ronald Reagan: Best actor at playing two parts in a single film...and the award goes to.... Ronald Reagan in .... Bedtime for Bonzo! Nigel |
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24 Mar 03 - 10:30 AM (#917042) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: Stilly River Sage BEST ILLUSTRATION OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TRYING TO CATCH A TRUE VIEW OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION The Parallax View |
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24 Mar 03 - 10:39 AM (#917052) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: katlaughing BEST PORTRYAL OF A LEADING ACTRESS CONTINUING DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS WITH FRANCE: Meryl Streep in The French Lt's Woman. |
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24 Mar 03 - 01:57 PM (#917252) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: Stilly River Sage Kat--the storyline in the novel implied a French Lieutenant, but in the end, there was none. Is this where you're taking that thought? SRS |
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24 Mar 03 - 02:01 PM (#917255) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: katlaughing Kinda, SRS, I was mostly just going for the title 'cause it sounded good...a sort of soundbite, ya know?**bg** |
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24 Mar 03 - 03:36 PM (#917328) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: GUEST,Peter T. BEST PORTRAYAL OF A LEADING FOREIGN ACTRESS CONTINUING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH AMERICA Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca Marlene Dietrich, Morocco (Why is Dietrich called "Frenchie" in "Destry Rides Again?") Ingrid Bergman, Notorious Valli, The Third Man Vivian Leigh, Waterloo Bridge |
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24 Mar 03 - 04:35 PM (#917381) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: Stilly River Sage BEST ILLUSTRATION OF "YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE STARTED IT BECAUSE YOU CAN'T FINISH IT" Ron Howard in The Shootist. |
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25 Mar 03 - 07:41 AM (#917787) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: Wolfgang BEST STAND-IN goes in equal parts to 6 Saddam lookalikes. Wolfgang |
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25 Mar 03 - 10:57 AM (#917922) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: Amos Best Special Effects Representing the Actual Mental Processes of Republican Leadership: The Matrix |
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25 Mar 03 - 09:18 PM (#918462) Subject: RE: Your Wartime Oscars! From: Stilly River Sage BEST ILLUSTRATION OF DUBYA'S O-T-J TRAINING: Chauncey in Being There. |