--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <jpgillam@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- off_world_beings wrote: > > > > > > > > Stephen Hawkings recently > > > > denounced the theory that made him famous 20 years ago. > > > > > > What theory was that? > > > > > > > The theory that if you're a quadraplegic in a wheelchair and have to > > speak through a computer that everything you say somehow has great > > importance attached to it. > > > Yeah- no kidding. I am fascinated by the phenomenon in our culture > whereby people who overcome their extraordinarily bad karma are looked > upon as heroes, while the majority of people who have not incurred > such bad karma, and therefore don't have to learn to walk with a > prosthesis for example, or wear a wig as a result of chemotherapy > cancer treatments are somehow seen as lesser beings. It is just plain > weird. >
And it extends to the Academy Awards, too. If you play someone mentally challenged (Cliff Robertson in "Charlie"), a paraplegic (Daniel Day Lewis in "My Left Foot"), someone mentally ill (Geofrey Rush in "Shine"), an autistic (Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man"), if you have a terminal disease (Tom Hanks in "Philadelphia"), an amputee (Jon Voigt in "Coming Home"), a blind man (Al Pacino in whatever), you're a shoo-in to win. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
