Berry makes Anti-Semetic Joke on Leno- Page 3

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 9:34am

That's how I felt about Isaiah Washington.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 10:28am

And how do you feel about Barrack Obama and ex-gay Rev. Donnie McClurkin?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 10:41am

I think it's kind of deplorable, whether or not he denounced him. He's pandering. I was leaning more towards Clinton anyway. At the end of the day, though, I'm voting demorcatic no matter what. I have every expectation of being sold out by the democrats, though, regardless of who is the candidate.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 10:52am

And institutionalized racism is the only way to explain Angela Bassett in What's Love Got To Do With It? losing to Holly Hunter in The Piano.

How The Piano got nominated for anything other than its score still baffles me. Awful movie about awful people. The CD is the only good thing about it.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 11:39am

You and I may be the only people in America who think that. God, that movie irritated the living crap out of me.

[misschung]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 11:40am

Really? I thought it was brilliant. To each his own, though

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 11:45am

The voice you hear is not my speaking voice, but my mind's voice. I have not spoken since I was six years old. No one knows why - not even me.

If even she doesn't know why she's not talking, why should any of us care?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 1:18pm

Wait, didn't Harvey Keitel show his wang in that movie? I love movies where actors show their wangs.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 1:28pm

Phyllis - I never saw her as a sympathetic character. She was whiny, bitchy, manipulative and self-centered. And I remember all this talk when the movie premiered about how it made some statement about the plight of all women and the amazing achievement of empowerment in Hunter's character. I really didn't see any of that. I saw a bitch who left her family and betrayed them as soon as she couldn't have her way, but because she's mute, we're supposed to ignore her character flaws. Ugh!

I couldn't sympathize with anyone in that film. I was just hoping they would all kill each other.

Namo - He did. And I sort of wished he hadn't. Sort of like Tom Berenger in At Play in the Fields of the Lord.

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[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 1:32pm

Wasn't his character illiterate? And didn't she send him some written message on a piano key?

And I agree, Matt. I thought it was a movie full of rotten characters, including her awful daughter.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 1:40pm

She was such a snotty little bitch.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 1:42pm

Would that she was the one who inexplicably decided to stop talking.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 1:46pm

I was waiting for the father to chop something off of her, too. I'll never forget the fun I had watching this movie because I was screaming "BITCH!" at the little girl and throwing Hershey's Kisses at the TV screen, wincing at the sight of a naked Harvey Keitel, and roaring with laughter at the ridiculous "punishment" scene. If anything, it sort of entertained me, but for all the wrong reasons. I have never watched it again.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/24/07 at 1:48pm

I saw it at screening by my university's student activities board. I wanted to claw out my eyes and stuff them in my ears.