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""State of Play" now on DVD"

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Anonymous RWF said...

"Politics may be show business for ugly people, but Affleck’s convincingly wooden performance suggests that Congress is for handsome but mediocre thespians whose range is restricted to acting sincere."

#applause#.

Great line and so true.

9/1/09, 3:43 AM

Anonymous Brad G said...

Crowe owns a rugby league team here in Australia:


http://www.rabbitohs.com.au/

and he based his performance, in part, on a certain dishevelled sports journo from Sydney:

http://www.leaguehq.com.au/articles/2009/06/05/1243708604770.html

9/1/09, 3:53 AM

Blogger jimbo said...

I might have to see it, just for Jason Bateman - a five-minute appearance by him is enough to almost redeem some absolute stinkers...

9/1/09, 5:29 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Crowe was born in NZ, and when he wins an Oscar he is a Kiwi, but when he throws a phone at someone, he's an Aussie.

9/1/09, 1:55 PM

Anonymous agnostic said...

OT on race and mortgage delinquency:

Summary

A WSJ blog write-up says there are race/ethnicity effects even controlling for other risk factors.

9/1/09, 2:08 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Was the movie any good? Sounds dumb. That Michael Clayton was stupid too but it had that up to date production that woo-ed em.

9/1/09, 6:15 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yet the movie misses the key personality difference between traditional media and the more Aspergery culture of the Web: newspaper reporters converse constantly, while Web people prefer Google to human contact. Young Matthew Yglesias, for instance, recently declared on his blog, “Definitely the whole time I was employed at The Atlantic I never once returned a voicemail. … In general, I’m not a fan of talking on the phone ...”

Do you really think of the phone as human contact, Steve?

I think of human contact as meeting someone in person. But I'm one of those young whipper-snappers: f I get voicemail, I hang up and just send whoever I'm trying to talk to an email.

Anonymous Whippersnapper

9/1/09, 6:45 PM

Anonymous JeremiahJohnbalaya said...

The posted link makes no such claim as decribed by the poster.


OT on race and mortgage delinquency:

Summary

A WSJ blog write-up says there are race/ethnicity effects even controlling for other risk factors.

9/1/09, 9:41 PM

Anonymous Babylon said...

Steve this is off-topic, but in a recent article in the National Post Conrad Black says the following:

"The theory of the inevitable rise of China is similar to the recent theory of the inevitable end of the U. S. as a mainly Caucasian country: It is based on the extrapolation of current statistics that will not continue, and that in the case of the Chinese economy, are a fiction anyway."

Well you're the stats whiz, so what do you make of his point about the US remaining a Caucasian country?

9/2/09, 12:36 AM

Anonymous Whingeing Pom said...

Crowe was born in NZ, and when he wins an Oscar he is a Kiwi, but when he throws a phone at someone, he's an Aussie.

Haha.

That makes me think of that great line from the early eighties NZ Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon. When asked if he was concerned that many young young Kiwis were emigrating to Australia, Muldoon replied "Not at all, it raises the IQ of both countries".

9/2/09, 1:42 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was inspired to rent it just now on Comcast. It started out strong with a black kid as the purse snatcher instead of an Italian, held my interest for a while and then descended into Hollywood plot hell as a magical teenage junkie appears to cement the plot lines together. It recovered somewhat but never really lived up to the promise of the opening half hour. My observation is this is typical of "modern" Hollywood films, usually the first 30-45 minutes are strong and then something so fake or absurd happens that the narritive spell is broken.

9/2/09, 2:06 AM

Anonymous Bob said...

Babylon:

Conrad Black is wrong.

In 2007 only 53.6% of births in the USA were to white non-hispanic mothers (so says the CDC). Some of these new white mothers mated with non-whites.

Add in the fact that most immigrants are non-white, and all white countries have low birth rates, I don't see how the US can stay majority white for much longer.

9/2/09, 2:17 AM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

Paul Newman always said the first 15 minutes are what sells the screenplay to the studio and the last 15 minutes are what sells the movie to the audience. So that leaves a big chunk in the middle.

9/2/09, 2:17 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"That makes me think of that great line from the early eighties NZ Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon. When asked if he was concerned that many young young Kiwis were emigrating to Australia, Muldoon replied "Not at all, it raises the IQ of both countries "

Muldoon perfected the art of treating liberal journalists with utter disdain bordering on contempt, a skill which is sorely lacking in today's politician. It was the game he enjoyed most.

He did another clever thing...when answering inane questions, he turned and looked directly at the camera, never at the reporter. He knew how to reach punters in TV land.

9/2/09, 3:59 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve
I am confused.
On one hand, you made fun of white liberals who supported Obama because you believed that many of them thought that his election to the Presidency would encourage other blacks to be like Obama. You implied that this line of thinking was ludicrous.
On the other hand, you seem to believe that elite, white liberals (i.e. the counterculture) were able to succesfully transmit their contempt for traditional social mores to the same population of blacks.
Resolve that inconsistency for me. Why aren't there more black Jefferson Starship and Neil Diamond fans?

9/2/09, 6:28 PM

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