Re: [MOPO] GIVE MOPO, GIVE!
I have very little now, but am giving to the Humane Society who is out there now rescuing the animals. I've given to a church organization who actually is giving food to those in Mississippi. Let us know which organizations are genuine in their giving. Toochis --- Michael Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello This is why I so often seem heartless and cynical when I don't donate to these admittedly dire situations and needy causes. It just seems so often useless and full of the normal red tape that you would see in governments that I normally just refuse to give money due to a bad attitude about the level of bullshit that seems to go on behind the scenes. I know there are good people involved in these organizations...I do...I just have a terribly negative opinion of this type of thing. I am not a total cheapskate but I do like to choose things that I find important for my yearly donations as well as things that I feel confident are getting direct results and go through as few a number of channels as possible. I am very fond of donating to public radio so hopefully disaster relief can be taken from my tax dollars through Canadian efforts and I'll continue to help people by trying to make them realize that there are alternatives to your news, current affairs and mainstream music out there and it's (mostly, depending on your willingness to donate) free and run by volunteers and it's wonderful and it touches every community you can imagine. All the best to all everywhere, Michael William A Brent wrote: At 07:20 PM 9/2/2005, Danny Steward wrote: I pulled all this information off Google in the past 30 minutes. hen it must be true. so who to give money to? the Red Cross? The American Red Cross may be expert at responding to public disasters, but for years it has failed to get a grip on financial disasters at its local chapters. There's the fundraiser in Louisiana caught padding her own bank account with donations, the manager in Pennsylvania who embezzled to support her crack cocaine habit and the executive in Maryland who forged signatures on purchase orders meant for disaster victims, to name a few. But the biggest criminal scandal inside the Red Cross surfaced in New Jersey last year. And though it's been kept off the front pages, it ranks among the biggest charity frauds ever. -OR- By Amran Abocar in Toronto November 22 2002 Police have laid criminal charges against four doctors, the Canadian Red Cross Society and a United States pharmaceutical company after a five-year investigation into tainted blood -and then there was 9/11 here in NY- WASHINGTON - Generous North Americans who gave more than half a billion dollars (U.S.) to the Red Cross expected their donations would go directly to surviving family members and victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Canadians opened their wallets to donate $10 million (Cdn) to the New York, Washington and Pennsylvania victims, Suzanne Charest of the Canadian Red Cross said last night. But in a growing scandal which threatens to rock the foundation of the 120-year-old American Red Cross, it now appears that of the $530 million (U.S.) total donated, more than $200 million is being diverted to the blood agency's long-term goals and administrative costs. That includes (all figures in U.S. dollars): $109 million for improving the Red Cross' telecommunications, accounting and database management systems. $50 million for the agency's blood reserves program. $26 million for community outreach. $29 million for indirect or administrative relief costs. $11 million for international assistance. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] LIBERALS?
Erik, Since you asked, I'll venture off-topic one more time to answer. And this is not an opinion based on "political belief", this is a factual answer to the question you asked which was "what could President Bush have done to satisfy all the folks clamoring for his head?" --: 1) The governor of Louisiana officially requested federal troops be sent in "as soon as possible" on Monday morning, the same day the storm hit and the levies broke. The President of the United States is the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of this nation and he could have sent them in immediately,with plenty of heavy-lift helicopters and amphibious vehicles WITHIN A MATTER OF HOURS. Instead it took almost 4 days, and they are only just now arriving in any significant number. This is a clear dereliction of duty. -- JR - Original Message - From: Erik To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 15:38 Subject: Re: [MOPO] LIBERALS? I'll chime in from the conservative viewpoint, with a question: Overlooking the mishandling ofLA's local goverment's (non)efforts, what could president Bush have done to satisfy all the folks clamoring for his head, how horribly he and his administration have handled this natural disaster. Simple question that I'd be curious to see an answer to, and not a rant, please. Seems as those slamming Bush for what he's done never have a positive solution of their own just more negativity. Cheers, Erik Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] My final Off-topic post about this. . .
David There are too many holes in your story and I hate talking politics. However, your main point is that Bush is gone in 2008 and you talk like this is just around the corner or next month. I think you have to face the reality of the situation that this is only September 2005. 2008 is a long time to have to put up with a person who cares only for the rich, the oil companies, extemist judges and tax cuts while draining the treasury of the country. Did you forget he was offering loans to oil companies last week while not acting on aid to people in New Orleans? My personal income has increasedthanks to his tax cuts, but I would gladly give it back to be rid of him so all people could share in the wealth. Mentioning so frequently in your post that he is gone in 2008 is meaningless. He can do a lot of damage to this country in many ways between now and then. Claude Litton Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Claude
Henceforth, please address off-topic posts to me privately, not publicly. Claude: Because I disagree w/all of your declarations about -- oil companies (we could take oil now if we wanted it in Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar, the so-called no blood for oil screed) -- extremist judges (Roberts is an extremist?) -- tax cuts (we've lived through deficits and the threat of federal bankruptcies before; they mean nothing to the avg. non-governmental-working Joe who only cares about keeping his job) -- and the implication that Bush is SINGULARLY responsible for the disaster in Katrina -- well, because I disagree, 2008 isn't too long to wait for the Bush era to end. I've already admonished the President for failing to wrest control from state and local officials in Louisiana to rush troops from disparate states -- into a unfamiliar region far greater in size than several Manhattans combined. Nothing this president does between now and 2008 -- will change the minds of people who want him out. Nothing. Only people who hate Bush think 2008 is too long. I disagree with some of his views. He has failed with immigration, health care, social security, the push to get oil from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR), but I do not hate him. I do not care what other nations think. I may criticize, but at the end of the day, I still support any president in the Oval Office, even if my candidate does not win. That's it. David Original Message Follows From: Claude Litton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: My final Off-topic post about this. . . Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 05:34:51 EDT David There are too many holes in your story and I hate talking politics. However, your main point is that Bush is gone in 2008 and you talk like this is just around the corner or next month. I think you have to face the reality of the situation that this is only September 2005. 2008 is a long time to have to put up with a person who cares only for the rich, the oil companies, extemist judges and tax cuts while draining the treasury of the country. Did you forget he was offering loans to oil companies last week while not acting on aid to people in New Orleans? My personal income has increased thanks to his tax cuts, but I would gladly give it back to be rid of him so all people could share in the wealth. Mentioning so frequently in your post that he is gone in 2008 is meaningless. He can do a lot of damage to this country in many ways between now and then. Claude Litton Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] I AM GOING TO SOMETHING SHOCKING IN LIEU OF POLITICS FLOOD......DANCING
Yes today we are serving DANCE okay Ralph B itssafe to come back, I promise from today's NY TIMES and indeed I have watched every film from this set except Barklys and they are swell. fwfisher September 2, 2005 Escaping Depression? Just Dance Blues Away By JOHN ROCKWELL Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made 10 musicals together, from "Flying Down to Rio" in 1933, when they didn't yet get star billing, to "The Barkleys of Broadway" in 1949, a full decade after the ninth and a kind of coda to the rest. At their peak, between 1935 and 1937, they were America's beloved couple. Their musicals offered the purest form of escape from the woes of the Depression, a fantasy of the 1920's seen through the darker prism of the 30's. They provided the opportunity to commission and inspire the country's great songwriters - Berlin, Kern, Gershwin. These films, these actors/singers/dancers, have since also inspired a small library of critical commentary, of which Arlene Croce's "Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book," now lamentably out of print, remains the classiest. Still, any excuse to write about Astaire and Rogers is always welcome, and Warner Home Video has provided a dandy excuse. In Volume 1 of the "Astaire Rogers Collection," we have five DVD's of five Astaire-Rogers movies. Since there are five more, and this is billed as Volume 1, we can safely assume a Volume 2 is in the works, though Warner Brothers coyly won't confirm that. Still, these DVD's, in their crisp, vivid transfers with sometimes illuminating, sometimes tedious extras, include three of the films generally considered to be the best of their best: "Top Hat" (1935), "Swing Time" (1936) and "Shall We Dance" (1937), along with "Follow the Fleet" (1936). "Fleet" has its improbabilities (Astaire as a gum-chewing swab), but also "Let's Face the Music and Dance," which floats blissfully free of the plot and may count as their greatest self-contained dance drama. The Warner set is rounded out by "The Barkleys of Broadway," their only one in color and their only one not for RKO, in which the magic is pretty much gone but which is still full of craft and nostalgia and a plausibly witty mirroring of the popular image of their collaboration (onstage harmony, backstage dissonance). What made the Astaire-Rogers team great was talent, synergy and context. Rogers was already a budding movie star when Astaire did his first film in 1933. But he was long-established in vaudeville and on Broadway. When the Astaire-Rogers collaboration took off, Astaire and his dance master, Hermes Pan, laboriously worked out the dance numbers for the next film while Rogers was off making something else. Then Pan taught Rogers the moves, Astaire and Rogers danced, and America swooned. Astaire's sister, Adele, was widely considered his "best" partner, before her retirement into marriage, but Rogers clicked with the broader public through film, a simultaneously intimate and populist medium. It has been widely, endlessly repeated that, in terms of their images, Astaire brought her class and she brought him sex. She also brought him emotion and romance. Astaire was never an actor with a wide range; he looked like the Joker in "Batman" and always played the dapper sophisticate, nervously skimming the surface of feeling. Rogers, in turn, was never a classic screen beauty. But she glowed in the best of these Astaire-Rogers films. Partly that has to do with a seemingly unstoppable parade of gorgeous costumes, like those (ostrich? chicken?) feathers in "Cheek to Cheek." But her glow had even more to do with their chemistry. She could act; some of her reaction shots are really moving. But together, in their dancing (and his singing, thin-voiced but consummately stylish), they made a new kind of acting - dancing that was acting all by itself. Their dancing (meaning his choreography and their execution of it) was formal and reserved, like him. It was ballroom dancing mixed with swing and jazz and tap. But though some of the virtuosity remains remarkable, it was never vulgar and flashy like ballroom dancing today, at least as epitomized by reality TV shows like "Dancing With the Stars." The mid-30's was the era, after all, in which the Motion Picture Production Code had cracked down, to the point of prudery, on the more salacious excesses of Hollywood in the 20's and early 30's. There was never anything covert in the sexual play of Astaire and Rogers. Their dancing together was sex; it was romance. "Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance," Astaire once said. "We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in dance." For me, the magic in their relationship had as much or more to do with the lead-ins as with the dance itself; more with foreplay than consummation. Often the song itself, sung by one or the other or both, precedes the dance, as in "Cheek to Cheek" from "Top Hat." In "Let's Face
[MOPO] FA: 3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER (Harryhausen) NM US 1/2 Sht 40 Other AUCTIONS!!!!!!!
Hi, I have at least 40 auctions closing TOMORROW NIGHT, including MINT JAMES BOND posters, great Vintage SCI-FI/HORROR, FILM NOIR---too many classic titles to mention!! If you have an extra minute, please take a look at my THREE WORLDS OF GULLIVER original 1964 Near Mint US 1/2 Sheet featuring RAY HARRYHAUSEN special effects at only $24.99! Here's the link: LOTS of other outstanding posters and lobby cards, too! Please check them out! Thanks, Rick http://cgi.ebay.com/3-Worlds-of-Gulliver-HARRYHAUSEN-Orig-1960-US-1-2-Sht_W0QQitemZ7541249090QQcategoryZ60331QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] THE ARISTOCRATS
I saw THE ARISTOCRATS last night. There were some laughs and more than a few chuckles. But Mario Cantone doing his impression of Liza Minnelli was worth the price of admission. The film was doing a brisk business and they've added screens in Austin. If you like dirty language, whatever that is, I know I do -- go, by all means. Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] THE ARISTOCRATS
Hey Kirby and all, I saw Mario Cantone's HBO special several times and laughed till I could barely breath. His interpretations of various actresses were so right on and hysterical. I can't wait to see this one. Sue - Original Message - From: Kirby McDaniel To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 9:24 AM Subject: [MOPO] THE ARISTOCRATS I saw THE ARISTOCRATS last night. There were some laughs and morethan a fewchuckles. But Mario Cantone doing his impression of Liza Minnelliwas worth the priceof admission. The film was doing a brisk business and they've addedscreens in Austin.If you like dirty language, whatever that is, I know I do -- go, byall means.Kirby McDanielwww.movieart.net Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] MOPO/ two items, two categories from Movpost
1st of all as a recording artist we have instructed our distributor www.cdbaby.comto donate all the proceeds from the sale of our CD's to the Red Cross for flood and disaster relief. If you enjoy rock and Salsa music go to the site and look up L.A. Carpool and if you buy a cd, the money now goes to the Red Cross. Thanks for reading the off topic post. Next 8 items up right now new Jerry lewis, doris Day, Robert Mitchum, John Wayne all at http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmovpostQQhtZ-1so you can check those out more tommorrow and thanks to those who bought from my last list. Jack Gold movpost poster trader by day, Salsa musician and producer by night Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] FA: Heritage Weekly Ends Tomorrow Night 155 Lots No Reserve
Our latest Internet Movie Poster Auction featuring 155 lots closestomorrow, Sunday (September 4) at 10pm CT. New auctions with hundreds of new items every month. To view all of this weeks selection click on this link: http://www.heritagemovieposters.com/common/search_items.php?Sale_No=55091 Advise and Consent- Saul BassOne Sheet http://www.heritagemovieposters.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=55091Lot_No=26002 Alias Nick Beal- Film Noir http://www.heritagemovieposters.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=55091Lot_No=26006 Five Pennies http://www.heritagemovieposters.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=55091Lot_No=26059 Flamingo Road http://www.heritagemovieposters.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=55091Lot_No=26060 Flesh Feast- Veronica Lake's Last http://www.heritagemovieposters.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=55091Lot_No=26061 Husbands http://www.heritagemovieposters.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=55091Lot_No=26086 Long Goodbye http://www.heritagemovieposters.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=55091Lot_No=26097 Midway http://www.heritagemovieposters.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=55091Lot_No=26105 One Spy Too Many http://www.heritagemovieposters.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=55091Lot_No=26105 Raging Bull http://www.heritagemovieposters.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=55091Lot_No=26129 Swamp Thing http://www.heritagemovieposters.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=55091Lot_No=26146 Wizards http://www.heritagemovieposters.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=55091Lot_No=26155 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] THE ARISTOCRATS
I saw this film at Cine-Vegas back in June met Penn Teller later that night. I think Kevin Pollack's impression of Chris Walken was so good that if you closed your eyes, you would think it was Walken.. the film takes a buildup, getting better as it goes along.. Bob Saget is an awful man.. (just joking) Rich At 09:24 AM 9/3/2005, Kirby McDaniel wrote: I saw THE ARISTOCRATS last night. There were some laughs and more than a few chuckles. But Mario Cantone doing his impression of Liza Minnelli was worth the price of admission. The film was doing a brisk business and they've added screens in Austin. If you like dirty language, whatever that is, I know I do -- go, by all means. Kirby McDaniel www.movieart.net Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
