Ten Suggestions – The Movie

The Yahoo! upcoming movies site has an Internet poll asking which Paramount movie readers would like to see remade following the example of The Stepford Wives and The Manchurian Candidate. One of the choices is The Ten Commandments (leading the voting as I write this).

Unless Mel Gibson is involved, I would be worried that the movie would be changed. What would that planning meeting look like?

Studio Head: OK, let’s do The Ten Commandments.

Producer: Yeah, but The Ten Commandments movie was made in the 1960’s, what with its commandments and good guys and bad guys. We need to update it for a “sophisticated” modern audience that isn’t blinded by religion.

Writer: You’re right. We’ve got another problem. The Israelites can’t be slaves to the Egyptians, that’s anti-Arab and so “BC”. How about Palestinians trying to flee evil Israeli occupation?

Studio Head: I think you’re on to something. Maybe we can get Michael Moore to star as Moses the Palestinian.

Writer: That’s so sexist, why does Moses have to be a man?

Producer: How about Rosie O’Donnell? We can make it a comedy. Madonna can appear as Pharoah…I mean the Israeli Prime Minister – she’s into Kaballah right?

Producer: There is still the problem with the Ten Commandments.

Writer: Well, everyone knows the commandments are really metaphors for ten reasons not to re-elect George Bush.

Producer: You’re right. But where in the movie can we get Charlize Theron to take off her top?

We appreciate you (kind of).

I went to a “take and bake” pizza place yesterday. You buy your unbaked pizza there and bake it at home. Included with the pizza was a flier that announced their customer appreciation days were coming up.


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Now if you examine the flier, it really doesn’t seem to be a positive message. They are going to appreciate their customers for seven days only. I’m not sure exactly how they are going to treat their customers after September 20th, but apparently it won’t be with appreciation.

Really. Who comes up with this stuff?

What is important?

The July 26th issue of Fortune magazine has an article on Ted Fortsmann. He was a man who became very rich in the 1980s and early 90s by financing leveraged buyouts. He kept his company small and worked with his brother as a business partner. He adopted two sons from South Africa but never married.

In the late 90s things fell apart. Ted Fortsmann made some bad business deals (although he is still rich) and in 2001 he lost his brother to cancer. His star has faded.

Now that he is considering retirment, he seems to be a lonely man.

He misses his little brother so much that sometimes he wanders into Nicky’s office -untouched since the day he died, on Teddy’s orders – just to sit for a while. He acknowledges that the lifelong bachelor routine has grown old…he [says] he wishes he had married.

This man was a titan of investing. He had all the success he wanted and still has influence with $2 billion in assets under management. In spite of all his accomplishments, he realizes he has no one to share them with.

Work is important, but not the most important thing.

Clergy of every faith have said to me: “I have been with many men approaching death; and not one has ever said, ‘I only regret that I didn’t spend more time at the office.'”-Dennis Prager

Michael Moore Loves America?

Reuters reports that Cuba is showing Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” on state run TV. Does anyone really believe he loves this country?

Castro airs Moore’s movie to all of Cuba. He quoted Moore’s book “Stupid White Men” in disparaging President Bush.  When our country’s enemies use Moore’s movies and books to support their agenda, isn’t it safe to say Moore is anti-American?

Cuba is a country that thousands of its citizens try to flee from every year, most of them to this country.  Yet Moore’s propaganda is helping Castro to villify the United States.

The Death Cult

Planned Parenthood is selling a shirt that bears the slogan “I had an abortion”.

They claim that the shirt will “assert a powerful message in support of women’s rights.” The only thing missing is an accompanying message on the back saying “you should have one too!”

The slogan isn’t about women, it is about ending life.  The slogan does nothing to protect women’s rights. It only promotes death.

Planned Parenthood is a death cult.

Free speech for us, not for you

First there was the Whoopi Goldberg’s vulgar show for John Kerry. When she got fired by Slim Fast who didn’t want to be associated with her crude antics, she complained her rights of free speech were violated.

Then there was Linda Ronstadt. She got kicked out of the Aladdin Hotel after making political statements about Moore and his movie during her performance. Now Michael Moore has written an open letter (I guess it’s his way of saving the 37 cents on postage) to the Aladdin Hotel claiming Ronstadt’s rights were violated.

Moore believes that Ronstadt’s comments are free speech people who disagree with those views are required to be associated with them. It doesn’t work the other way around. Liberal activist groups NEA and NOW demanded that Rush Limbaugh be fired from promoting Florida orange juice.

Now we find out that Ronstadt is a bigot. Here is what she said in an interview before the Aladdin show:

It’s a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I’d rather not know.”

If you are a Republican or (horrors!) a Christian, she doesn’t want to perform for you. Lefties want to you to accept and even support their views no matter how offensive you believe they are. Criticism is not allowed.

Remember, there are none so intolerant as the tolerant.

Another interview

Tomorrow I’m interviewing Kevin Anderson, author of various sci-fi novels, for an article. Today I went out and bought a digital voice recorder. It’s an Olympus DS-330. It even has a docking cradle so I can download recordings to my computer.
 
I figure I can also use it for college classes if I can get into the program. Four months after I submitted my paperwork, I’m still trying to get a couple of recommendation letters to them (one of which had previously been mailed). It makes me wonder if they really want students or not.
 
Oh, so anyway, I’m interviewing Kevin Anderson tomorrow. Did you know he recently signed the largest book contract ever for a science-fiction writer?