Comments on: Academy Awards? There goes the neighborhood! http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/ The blog of the mystery writer, screenwriter and CEO of Pajamas Media Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:55:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Buddy Larsen http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75280 Buddy Larsen Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:42:06 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75280 Thanks for that Teachout pointer, Roger. Great piece. Clooney's film's dishonesty is well described. Teachout never wastes a word. He might've added, too, re "Capote", that the 1967 film "In Cold Blood" starred Robert Blake as one of the killers. Thanks for that Teachout pointer, Roger. Great piece. Clooney’s film’s dishonesty is well described. Teachout never wastes a word. He might’ve added, too, re “Capote”, that the 1967 film “In Cold Blood” starred Robert Blake as one of the killers.

]]> By: Oyster http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75279 Oyster Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:03:44 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75279 I took your advice and read Teachout's article. Excellent. Clooney really is quite clueless and never fails to prove it. The "question authority" mantra has honorable beginnings, but leave it to him (and others) to bastardize its true meaning. Using Murrow to push that mantra was a horrible choice. Questioning authority is great, but don't you have to be right about it at least once in a while to be taken seriously? Looks like Clooney's overtly vying for Moore's place in "documentary" production. I took your advice and read Teachout’s article. Excellent. Clooney really is quite clueless and never fails to prove it. The “question authority” mantra has honorable beginnings, but leave it to him (and others) to bastardize its true meaning. Using Murrow to push that mantra was a horrible choice. Questioning authority is great, but don’t you have to be right about it at least once in a while to be taken seriously?

Looks like Clooney’s overtly vying for Moore’s place in “documentary” production.

]]> By: Parvus http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75278 Parvus Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:29:25 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75278 Dear Ric: just for the record the quote from H Beam Piper was about Napoleons throne room.& the guy would,ve have been so impressed was Al Capone. Its in Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. Dear Ric: just for the record the quote from H Beam Piper was about Napoleons throne room.& the guy would,ve have been so impressed was Al Capone. Its in Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen.

]]> By: Wildezword http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75277 Wildezword Mon, 06 Mar 2006 05:00:28 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75277 Back when I was a USC student, whenever they would hold an awards event close to campus, they'd hang "Temporary Towaway Zone" signs on all the side streets the very night of the event. Then, they'd tow away all the parked cars (at the owner's expense, of course). Back when I was a USC student, whenever they would hold an awards event close to campus, they’d hang “Temporary Towaway Zone” signs on all the side streets the very night of the event. Then, they’d tow away all the parked cars (at the owner’s expense, of course).

]]> By: Sandy P http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75276 Sandy P Mon, 06 Mar 2006 03:38:21 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75276 Hi, I'm Peg. This costs more than the original. Hi, I’m Peg.

This costs more than the original.

]]> By: Ric Locke http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75275 Ric Locke Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:33:29 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75275 There's a great line in an old H. Beam Piper story where the protag is describing somebody very like your neighbor: "If he'd ever seen Versailles, he'd have gone home and ordered one twice as big, because he couldn't possibly have gotten one twice as flashy or in twice as bad taste." That about fit? Regards, Ric There’s a great line in an old H. Beam Piper story where the protag is describing somebody very like your neighbor:

“If he’d ever seen Versailles, he’d have gone home and ordered one twice as big, because he couldn’t possibly have gotten one twice as flashy or in twice as bad taste.”

That about fit?

Regards,
Ric

]]> By: Sandy P http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75274 Sandy P Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:31:51 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75274 I'm reading the blow-by-blow at PJM. Is Peter Fonda really posting there? They're making me laugh. I’m reading the blow-by-blow at PJM.

Is Peter Fonda really posting there?

They’re making me laugh.

]]> By: Sandy P http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75273 Sandy P Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:09:15 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75273 My husband is forcing me to watch the opening cos he likes Stewart. Roger, Bette Midler should host this thing, that would be really entertaining. My husband is forcing me to watch the opening cos he likes Stewart.

Roger, Bette Midler should host this thing, that would be really entertaining.

]]> By: Bill Schumm http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75272 Bill Schumm Sun, 05 Mar 2006 22:45:03 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75272 If there was an obnoxious, unsalable eyesore creating those kinds of problems in my neighborhood....I think I would pick a night between rentals and torch it. If there was an obnoxious, unsalable eyesore creating those kinds of problems in my neighborhood….I think I would pick a night between rentals and torch it.

]]> By: Roger http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75271 Roger Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:32:05 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2006/03/04/academy-awards-there-goes-the-neighborhood/#comment-75271 Hargrove, that's an early version of the Superdome uncovered in the Katrina wreckage. Hargrove, that’s an early version of the Superdome uncovered in the Katrina wreckage.

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