Having experienced the film this weekend ( and having read the book when it was first published) I can’t imagine anyone else’s name being read when they announce the winner (and thank God she won’t have to accept it from Will Fucking Smith).
Sent from Gmail Mobile On Mon, 30 Oct 2023 at 6:45 AM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi9wwQMP%3DMaXwfSHzgWmM519r%3DnmC5%3D9noX49EVfsKS3Sg%40mail.gmail.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/CAKGtkYLXSE44empoBXSm6fE08oP7ib3XGx3%3Do0HZiAdAkmWaHA%40mail.gmail.com.
