The question now is if Sainte-Marie is not Native American, has there been an Oscar winner since 1982 that is--and if Lily Gladstone does win the Oscar for the Scorcese movie, would she be the first one?
Mark Jeffries [email protected] On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 5:58 AM Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > Can't comment on the episode, but I read the article last week after > seeing a Twitter link to it, and it seems remarkably well-researched. > > https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/buffy-sainte-marie > > I don't have a vested interest in the story either, although I did see the > documentary about her on American Masters last year. I thought it was > well-done, although I still don't think she's a major artist. > > On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 9:02:21 PM UTC-4 Kevin M. wrote: > >> Canadians will have to tell me whether the tone of that story was typical >> of that series. I found it tainted with so much bias that I couldn’t help >> but wonder who emotionally wounded the reporter to make him feel that way. >> >> I have no vested interest in the ethnicity of the woman in question; I >> don’t know enough about her to care about her background, but they very >> clearly did. Everything from the sinister music normally reserved for axe >> murderers and rapists to the darkened almost noir-like old photos reeked of >> bias. Maybe she made up her background, or maybe she misunderstood her >> background, or maybe she simply didn’t know… didn’t matter to the reporter… >> he was out to tarnish her reputation and destroy her career. That was some >> truly, remarkably, unbelievably bad television. >> >> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 5:31 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It's on the 'toob, and not blocked outside Canada... >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMsqCWNCUc4 (link) >>> B >>> >>> Mark Jeffries, Oct 27th: >>> >>> Tonight's episode of the CBC's long-running newsmag "The Fifth Estate" >>> will contain a report supposedly revealing that an "iconic Canadian singer" >>> is not what she claimed to be for many years--folk singer Buffy >>> Sainte-Marie, the first indigenous winner of an Oscar in 1982 for >>> co-writing the "Officer and a Gentleman" theme "Up Where We Belong," >>> believes that she is the subject of the report and that the report wrong, >>> saying that the Canadian pubcaster interviewed her last month her ancestry >>> and being sexually assaulted as a child and that although she does not know >>> everything about her ancestry, "I know who I am": >>> >>> >>> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/buffy-sainte-marie-responds-pretendian-1235628540/ >>> >>> The above contains a video statement from Sainte-Marie--Americans will >>> only be able to see the program if they live near the Canadian border and >>> can pick up a CBC station OTA or on cable or if it is put online. >>> >>> -- >>> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/251f9292-2fb6-4948-9b54-b96e46683e60n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/251f9292-2fb6-4948-9b54-b96e46683e60n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/019b2672-5a22-432f-a2f7-9080de6b8120n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/019b2672-5a22-432f-a2f7-9080de6b8120n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi9wwQMP%3DMaXwfSHzgWmM519r%3DnmC5%3D9noX49EVfsKS3Sg%40mail.gmail.com.
