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btw, I try to wait for general release movies to make it to the $3.50/ticket price theater.  Most do.  Twelve…
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Fair enough.  At this point in our intellectual arguments.  A worthy exercise and thanks for engaging with me in it.…
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Too simplistic and also more than implies that many Democratic voters in Presidential election years are too stupid to show…
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LBJ was a means to JFK's aspirations.  He, his brother, and most of his team treated LBJ like shit after…
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Did I have to repeat, if the reports about Selma are correct?  Didn't feel that was necessary or given the…
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This is not a constructive conversation.  I view LBJ as a specific individual with flaws and strengths, his own personal…
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Please don't ascribe thoughts in my head or words in my comments that aren't there.   I don't like "white…
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A real example of the difference between translating a novel to the screen versus re-imagining a novel for the screen.…
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I'm not defending Lincoln.  A sublime performance by Daniel Day Lewis (not bad performances by a few of the other…
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Sort of a material fact wrt to discussing a shortcoming of Lincoln don't you think?
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History is complicated. IMHO, at his worst, LBJ was in a league with Nixon, Reagan, and the Bushes (and Carter…
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As for Spielberg, he's just about the last director I'd want to cover the life of someone who was so…
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Lincoln was set from January 1865 to April 1865.  As Douglass didn't support Lincoln in the 1864 election, doubt that…
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Absolutely.  However, that preceded the period depicted in the movie.  In that way the movie is too cramped and limited…
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Loved that book too much to do the movie once I'd seen pictures of the clothes and houses and read…
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Learned a few days ago that a niece got suckered into a for-profit college program.  She had recently earned an…
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MLK, Jr. had the foresight to copyright his speeches and the family owns those rights and are free to handle…
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All members vote for Best Picture nominees; so, given that Selma was nominated, postulating racism/sexism among AMPAS members is not…
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Didn't mean to imply that even if it were historically accurate that Douglass wasn't present in DC within the timeframe…
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Thx to King children giving rights away ... Don't you mean "sold?"  Regardless, if the rights to any work are…
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