Re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-11 Thread arcee
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 10:25 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/index?name=Gallery&; > bhcp=1 > > I don't know which is the greater crime against good taste, that or > Triumph of the Will. > > Bob > > === > I saw Triump of the Will in c

Re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Feb 3, 2008, at 10:11 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: > On Feb 3, 2008, at 11:03, P. J. Alling wrote: > >> On a windows system typing 0233 (holding down the ALT key while >> pressing the keypad keys) gives é. The Idea of Beyoncé as Alice is >> just >> short of bizarre. >> > > Agreed. > > I'm sur

Re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread Charles Robinson
On Feb 3, 2008, at 11:03, P. J. Alling wrote: > On a windows system typing 0233 (holding down the ALT key while > pressing the keypad keys) gives é. The Idea of Beyoncé as Alice is > just > short of bizarre. > Agreed. I'm sure there is something dirt-simple like that on the Mac, too. I've

Re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 2/3/2008 9:08:11 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Susan Sontag drew a connecting thread between her pre-Nazi mountain films, her films for Hitler and Goebbels, and her self-commissioned work with the Nuba. Sontag claimed it showed a 'fascist aesthetic' i

Re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread P. J. Alling
On a windows system typing 0233 (holding down the ALT key while pressing the keypad keys) gives é. The Idea of Beyoncé as Alice is just short of bizarre. Charles Robinson wrote: > On Feb 3, 2008, at 3:17, Bob W wrote: > >> http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/index?name=Galle

RE: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread Bob W
> I saw Triump of the Will in college in film class and thought it was > masterful. A incredibly masterful piece of propaganda, > meaning talent had gone into > it. I don't think anyone denies her talent. She's probably one of the best film directors ever - up there with D W Griffiths and oth

Re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread Charles Robinson
On Feb 3, 2008, at 5:09, Derby Chang wrote: > Bob W wrote: >> >> http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/index? >> name=Gallery& >> bhcp=1 >> dry wretching sound> > > That borders on Anne Geddes territory. The faux Wagner soundtrack > takes > it over the top. But least in her commerc

Re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread Charles Robinson
On Feb 3, 2008, at 3:17, Bob W wrote: > > http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/index?name=Gallery&; > bhcp=1 > > I don't know which is the greater crime against good taste, that or > Triumph of the Will. > I need to add that I actually like the photo with Beyonce, Lyle Lovett and O

RE: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread Bob W
> > On Feb 3, 2008 6:17 PM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/index?name=Gallery&; > > bhcp=1 > > > > I don't know which is the greater crime against good taste, that or > > Triumph of the Will. > > I quite like the shots of Scarlett Johans

Re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread Mark Roberts
Bob W wrote: > > http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/index?name=Gallery&; > bhcp=1 > > I don't know which is the greater crime against good taste, that or > Triumph of the Will. Yikes! Incidentally, did you know that many Disney World employees refer to the place as Mouschwitz?

Re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 2/3/2008 1:18:50 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've recently read an interesting biography of Leni Riefenstahl ('Leni' by Stephen Bach), and watched the fascinating video-bio 'The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl'. Susan Sontag first prai

Re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread mike wilson
> > From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/02/03 Sun AM 09:17:58 GMT > To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" > Subject: Bad taste reaches new depths > > I've recently read an interesting biography of Leni Riefenstahl > ('Leni' by Stephen Bach), and watched the fascinating video-bio 'The > Wo

re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread Roman Melihhov
Great news is that many of the most fascinating photographic eye will never get on that delirious Disney's "Hall Of Fame" http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/index?name=Gallery&bhcp=1 It is only crime against network traffic, congesting useful bits of information with these "ru

Re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread P. J. Alling
This is all sort of vaguely offensive, and isn't part of the point of animation avoiding paying royalties to useless celebrities... Bob W wrote: > I've recently read an interesting biography of Leni Riefenstahl > ('Leni' by Stephen Bach), and watched the fascinating video-bio 'The > Wonderful Hor

Re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread David Savage
On Feb 3, 2008 6:17 PM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/disneyparks/en_US/index?name=Gallery&; > bhcp=1 > > I don't know which is the greater crime against good taste, that or > Triumph of the Will. I quite like the shots of Scarlett Johansson & Rachel Weisz. H

Re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread Paul Stenquist
I'm sure the payday was quite tasty. Paul On Feb 3, 2008, at 4:17 AM, Bob W wrote: > I've recently read an interesting biography of Leni Riefenstahl > ('Leni' by Stephen Bach), and watched the fascinating video-bio 'The > Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl'. > > Susan Sontag first praised

Re: Bad taste reaches new depths

2008-02-03 Thread Derby Chang
Bob W wrote: > I've recently read an interesting biography of Leni Riefenstahl > ('Leni' by Stephen Bach), and watched the fascinating video-bio 'The > Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl'. > > Susan Sontag first praised Riefenstahl in the 1960s, then buried her > in the 1970s, and this fa