Erich Von Stroheim said it best:
If you live in France and you have written one
good book, or painted one good picture, or
directed one outstanding film, 50 years ago, and
nothing ever since, you are still recognized as
an artist and honored accordingly . . . In
Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your
last picture. If you didn't have one in
production in the last three months, you're
forgotten, no matter what you have achieved ere
this. It is that terrific, unfortunately
necessary, egotism in the makeup of the people
who make the cinema, it is the continuous
endeavor for recognition, that continuous
struggle for survival and supremacy, among the
newcomers, that relegates the old-timers to the ashcan
At 01:18 PM 3/10/2010, Kirby McDaniel wrote:
Joe, et al
If the movie business was reliant on people your
age and my age to pay the bills, it would fold
overnight. That's why the Academy decided --
after a terrible year last year - to emphasize
younger performers. The unspoken truth here,
too, is that other than cineastes like the folk
that inhabit this list, even the older audience
are interested in the new blood. It's only us
that wants to see Lauren Bacall trotted out there or
Jack Nicholson sit on the front row and
grin. Sure that's fun. But the Academy has a
vested interest in keeping things vital.
We need to guard against sounding like those
older folk in the 1970s who decried the Oscars
because the classic stars of the 1930s and 40s were
not such a big deal anymore.
K.
On Mar 10, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Joseph Bonelli wrote:
Nathalie, didn't you notice??? EVERYTHING from
"The Past" was totally excised from this Oscar
show. The "young" people don't want to see it! They'll change the channel!
Joe
--- On Wed, 3/10/10, Steven Yafet
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
From: Steven Yafet <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Where is everybody?
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 2:30 AM
Still reeling from the horror movie homage so
charmlessly introduced by those two twilight
duds. Obviously more appropriate people were
not available ;) If you blinked, you missed
the one or two seconds of classic horror. What
was this supposed to accomplish?
Nathalie
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Doug Taylor
<<http://us.mc1136.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>[email protected]>
wrote:
Am I missing something? There seems to have
been virtually no MOPO traffic the last few
daysÂ…not even the normal running dialogue trashing the Oscar presentation.
Whatup?
DBT
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