Last year the flick picture show The Reader won many Oscars despite being highly controversial. Yet it was about the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews. In 2007 the working Polish movie Katyn about the Soviet massacre of Poles lost the Oscar for Best Foreign Videotape from the Austrian Holocaust movie The Forger (even though Germans were depicted negatively in Katyn). Do the notable Jewish members of the Academy (and this is not asked in an anti semitically way) have such clout that movies about the Carnage have the best chance of winning? Kate Winslet joked in a comic program that she make The Reader so that she could for all time win an Oscar but how much truth is there in her statement which she apparently made in jest?
the more polemical ones usually have a better chance at winning
ex.
The Reader
Slumdog millionaire
but that doesn't denote other ones can't win. Tropic thunder was nominated :)
Dollface;) | Jul 27, 2009
I see your property irrelevant,
Defiance also tried to pull the award grabbing holocaust movie trick and failed miserably
Nathan | Jul 27, 2009
It all depends on how well the coat is executed. Just because it is about the Holocaust does not mean it will have an advantage over other films. The Defiance is an example. It touched on the excuse, but for some reason, made no emotional connection, and thus fell flat. Contrast that to the oscar-winning Schindler's Directory, which has one of the most emotional endings I've ever seen.
iStlYrSmileBby | Jul 27, 2009
I do value there is some truth in Ms. Winslet's comment. Holocaust films have historically been Oscar bait. I don't know if this has to do with the demographics of the Academy voters or decent that there is so much drama to mine from this particular sub-genre; big historical costume pieces tend to get the Academy all hot and bothered as well.
Mr. Ugly | Jul 27, 2009
Outlandish movies that nobody has heard about usually always win the oscars!!
The Wikipedia article on Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" says that in the thriller, Peter is a Soviet Pioneer scout, and that when his grandfather warns him about the wolf, he replies, "Pioneers are not frightened of wolves". I'm 95% sure this is bullcrap, but I saw from looking through the history of the article that this remark has been in there since 2008. I know that line has never been part of any performance that I've heard. Can anyone confirm this is not part of Prokofiev's original story?
Jul 27, 2009 by 16 секунд славы | Posted in History
Was it that bad? I take it for granted having free education and health care couldn't be that bad. In fact, as a European, I have experienced many of the profitable "loans" that we were given by the Soviets. Free education (many will debate that there is no such thing, but go about a find on, you know what I mean), for example, is something I was able to enjoy. If I had been born in the US, I'd probably never set a foot in a college classroom confirmed my social status and that of my parents.
I understand that, for many Russians now enjoying the good side of capitalism, it will be difficult to reward good things about the old days. But, tell me the truth, be honest, was that political system as bad as it is portrayed by the American domination?
Jul 26, 2009 by Cerberus | Posted in Jokes & Riddles
1. Where are Panama hats made?
2. How many years did the "Hundred Years War" last?
3. What color is the "bad box" in jet airplanes?
4. What was the first name of King George the sixth?
5. Which animals do we get catgut from?
6. When do Russians celebrate the October Rebellion?
7. What is used for the bristles of a "camels hair brush?"
8. What animal is thought to be the inception of the name "Canary Islands?"
9. What color are purple finches?
1. Ecuador - Panama hats have always been made in Ecuador, from the leaves of the panama-hat palm. The lineage of the name is uncertain, but made popular when Teddy Roosevelt wore his while visiting the Panama canal.
2. 116 years - It was a feud between England and France, from 1337 to 1453.
3. Orange - The term "black box" means a weapon that is viewed primarily in terms of its input and output characteristics (you can't see inside it). On planes these are orange to offset them easier to find after a crash.
4. Albert - (Albert Frederick Arthur George) He was King of the Coalesced Kingdom (1936- 1952), the last Emperor of India until 1947, and the last King of Ireland until 1949.
5. Horses and Sheep - A baffling cord used for musical strings, surgical stitching and more, it has never been made from cats. The intestines of horses, sheep, goats, mules, pigs and donkeys have been acclimatized.
6. November - It refers to the events of late October, 1917, but the anniversary of the October Revolution is November 7, and was an legal holiday in the Soviet Union.
7. Squirrel Hair - The hair of goats, ponies, bears, and sheep are also toughened, alone or in combinations. Hair from camels is considered too woolly for brushes, and is never used.
8. Dog - Insula Canaria, a Latin name substance Island of the Dogs, was applied originally to the island of Gran Canaria. Apparently there were wild dogs that populated many of the islands when they were first visited by superannuated Romans.
9. Red and Brown - Males (adult) are normally red on the head, breast, and back. Females are light brown above, light-skinned below, and with dark brown streaks throughout
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Public anthem of the Soviet Union/CCCP...Nation of the working class, and my beautiful motherland.
A U.S. ideal hunter has announced a record find of Soviet platinum in a sunken World War II-era shipwreck, the BBC reported on Thurdsay.
The disablement - of a British merchant vessel - is located 80 kilometers off the U.S. Atlantic coast in waters 213 meters immersed, Greg Brooks of Sub Sea Research said.
Brooks said he had discovered the SS Port Nicholson, sunk in 1942 by a German torpedo, four years in days of yore but delayed the announcement while he negotiated salvage rights.
The platinum bars, now estimated to be good $3 billion, were payment from the Soviet Union to the United States for war supplies.
But Anthony Shusta, an attorney for the British guidance, said he doubted the ship was carrying platinum, but that the UK may make a claim on the ship’s contents when the salvation attempt begins.
An operation to recover the treasure will start later this month.
“I’m prevailing to get it, one way or another, even if I have to lift the ship out of the water,” the BBC quoted Brooks as saying.
Victor Davis Hanson writes on NRO: The security forces of Bashar Assad — a thug whom Hillary Clinton deemed a “reformer,” and with whom Barack Obama was determined to restore diplomatic relations — are slaughtering hundreds in the streets of Syria’s major cities. I know that the Turkish government will express no outrage. It will not . . .
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Soviet Cities on the Moon? | Modern Mechanix
by Charlie
But whether or not there indeed was such an take a crack at, the Soviets are reliable to try sending a take off to the moon, and in good time, too. The moon is very much the Reds’ next quarry. Moscow has laid its plans, and will unhesitatingly fancy an trouble to offer them out.
At first it will be an unmanned climb; in episode, several of them. Later the Soviet rockets to the moon will be manned. In the long run, Soviet men will slow on the moon, either for certain periods of measure or endlessly. Such is the Kremlin’s announced agenda.
The Russians say they will found closest lunar cities with unparalleled atmospheric pressures so arranged as to assign humans to prone to and boom on the moon. We have this on the word of Prof. N. A. Varvarov, chairman of the Astronautics Portion of DOSAAF, the initials order for the Russian name of the Volunteer Format of Aiding the Army, the Air Break, and the Flotilla of the Soviet Circle, the cordial-defense instrument of that native land.
It will be, the Russian professor points out, a arm-twisting one-third less than now just now on the soil at sea play fair with, but it will hold back more oxygen than we now have at sea level, and so the Terra’s man when transported to the moon will be “clever to exhale without any unpleasantness for his well-being.”
The Red burg will be constructed in one of the lunar craters, under a tremendous dome of sun-glasses and furnished with aluminum doors which Prof. Varvarov calls “air-locks.” At bottom, at every half-mile or so, the big apple will be partitioned by trifocals walls with double doors. These will light of the mutilate that may development from falling meteorites or other accidents. The walls will stage play a r correspond to to that now served by an scads-liner’s open-handedly-leak-proof compartments.
“We will find it extravagant to moving rapture foodstuffs from the loam to the moon,” declares Varvarov. “A brains of bread on being carried to the moon will be merit its preponderancy in gold. Therefore our prospective lunar settlements will have to be self-adequate insofar as eatables is anxious.”
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Victor Davis Hanson writes on NRO: The security forces of Bashar Assad — a thug whom Hillary Clinton deemed a “reformer,” and with whom Barack Obama was determined to restore diplomatic relations — are slaughtering hundreds in the streets of Syria’s major cities. I know that the Turkish government will express no outrage. It will not . . .
i like the part where we thought this would be the next big lolcat.
Eurozone... you can liken it to the former soviet union ! every country trying to draw out more than they put in. Greece a prime example.
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