[B5JMS] Harlan Ellison Likes "Changeling" a lot

Fri Oct 31 04:38:28 EDT 2008

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From: mpvorkosigan at hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:30:52 -0700 (PDT)
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He likes it. Three and a half stars worth.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081023/REVIEWS/810239995

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From: Amy Guskin <aisling at fjordstone.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:30:21 GMT
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>> On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:08:12 -0400, thus spake Jon Schild (in article 
<ge1q45$22k$1 at news.xmission.com>):

> 
> David Williams wrote:
>> <mpvorkosigan at hotmail.com> wrote in message 
>> news:efe21928-7c7f-47f9-868e-7542194200eb at v53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
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>>> He likes it. Three and a half stars worth.
>>> 
>>> http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081023/REVIEWS/
>>> 810239995
>> 
>> 
>> Read his review of "W." while you're at it.
>> He gives "W." 4 stars.
>> 
>> David Williams
>> 
> 
> I always refuse to see movies that are nothing but personal ridicule.<<

That's not at all what "W." is.  I was surprised how even-handed it was.  
Sure, it often shows him in a bad light -- he's a bad, arrogrant person, 
after all, who's done some historically significant terrible things -- but it 
really wasn't a smear piece.  For someone like me -- an extremely progressive 
liberal -- I felt that it could have been a LOT more negative.

My husband and I walked out with the feeling that this was a piece of art, 
and that we would have been much harder on Bush had we made the film.

Amy
-- 
"In my line of work you gotta keep repeating things over and over and over 
again for the truth to sink in, to kinda catapult the propaganda." - George 
W. Bush, May 24, 2005

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From: Jan <janmschroeder at aol.com>
Date: 28 Oct 2008 04:10:46 -0700
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>From http://harlanellison.com/heboard/unca.htm :

HARLAN ELLISON
- Tuesday, October 28 2008 0:28:14
Saw Joe Straczynski's CHANGELING tonight.

I cannot recommend it highly enough.

It is a stunner, without flaw or misstep.

Two hours, twenty minutes went in a heartbeart.

Certain Oscar nominations for Joe as scenarist, Angelina Jolie as Actress,
Jeffrey Donovan and the kid actor who astonishingly plays "Sanford Northcott"
will get the nod, if there is any justicce. This kid is SOME actor!! And
Eastwood as director!

Do not deny yourself this artifact. It has been so long since a film treated me
as intelligently, as decently, as adultly as this, I'd almost forgotten what it
was to come out of a theater enriched.

CHANGELING. See it!

Yr. Pal, Harlan 

-- 
I try never to get involved in my own life. Too much trouble.

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From: Captain Infinity <Infinity at captaininfinity.us>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:33:17 GMT
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Once Upon A Time,
Jan wrote:

>From http://harlanellison.com/heboard/unca.htm :
>
>HARLAN ELLISON
>- Tuesday, October 28 2008 0:28:14
>Saw Joe Straczynski's CHANGELING tonight.
>
>I cannot recommend it highly enough.
>
>It is a stunner, without flaw or misstep.
>
>Two hours, twenty minutes went in a heartbeart.
>
>Certain Oscar nominations for Joe as scenarist, Angelina Jolie as Actress,
>Jeffrey Donovan and the kid actor who astonishingly plays "Sanford Northcott"
>will get the nod, if there is any justicce. This kid is SOME actor!! And
>Eastwood as director!
>
>Do not deny yourself this artifact. It has been so long since a film treated me
>as intelligently, as decently, as adultly as this, I'd almost forgotten what it
>was to come out of a theater enriched.
>
>CHANGELING. See it!
>
>Yr. Pal, Harlan 

Adultly?  Is that a perfectly cromulent word?

** 
Captain Infinity

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From: "John W. Kennedy" <John.W.Kennedy at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:57:15 -0700 (PDT)
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On Oct 28, 4:33=A0pm, Captain Infinity <Infin... at captaininfinity.us>
wrote:
> Adultly? =A0Is that a perfectly cromulent word?

If "adult" can be a concrete adjective (which it is), then "adultly"
can be an adverb.

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From: Captain Infinity <Infinity at captaininfinity.us>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:26:34 GMT
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Once Upon A Time,
John W. Kennedy wrote:

>On Oct 28, 4:33=A0pm, Captain Infinity <Infin... at captaininfinity.us>
>wrote:
>> Adultly? =A0Is that a perfectly cromulent word?
>
>If "adult" can be a concrete adjective (which it is), then "adultly"
>can be an adverb.

Well then, my vocabulary has been embiggened today.  Thanks!

**=20
Captain Infinity

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From: Wes Struebing <strueb at carpedementem.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:16:20 -0600
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:26:34 GMT, Captain Infinity
<Infinity at captaininfinity.us> wrote:

>Once Upon A Time,
>John W. Kennedy wrote:
>
>>On Oct 28, 4:33=A0pm, Captain Infinity <Infin... at captaininfinity.us>
>>wrote:
>>> Adultly? =A0Is that a perfectly cromulent word?
>>
>>If "adult" can be a concrete adjective (which it is), then "adultly"
>>can be an adverb.
>
>Well then, my vocabulary has been embiggened today.  Thanks!
>
>
See?  I think you misunderestimated Harlan...
-- =20

Wes Struebing

Jan. 20, 2009 - the end of an error

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From: Matt Ion <soundy106 at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:25:24 -0700
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Wes Struebing wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:26:34 GMT, Captain Infinity
> <Infinity at captaininfinity.us> wrote:
> 
>> Once Upon A Time,
>> John W. Kennedy wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 28, 4:33 pm, Captain Infinity <Infin... at captaininfinity.us>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Adultly?  Is that a perfectly cromulent word?
>>> If "adult" can be a concrete adjective (which it is), then "adultly"
>>> can be an adverb.
>> Well then, my vocabulary has been embiggened today.  Thanks!
>>
>>
> See?  I think you misunderestimated Harlan...

...irregardless of acting adultly?

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From: Wes Struebing <strueb at carpedementem.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:15:23 -0600
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On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:25:24 -0700, Matt Ion <soundy106 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>Wes Struebing wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:26:34 GMT, Captain Infinity
>> <Infinity at captaininfinity.us> wrote:
>> 
>>> Once Upon A Time,
>>> John W. Kennedy wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Oct 28, 4:33 pm, Captain Infinity <Infin... at captaininfinity.us>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Adultly?  Is that a perfectly cromulent word?
>>>> If "adult" can be a concrete adjective (which it is), then "adultly"
>>>> can be an adverb.
>>> Well then, my vocabulary has been embiggened today.  Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>> See?  I think you misunderestimated Harlan...
>
>...irregardless of acting adultly?

Definitely maybe...
--  

Wes Struebing

Jan. 20, 2009 - the end of an error

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From: "jmsatb5 at aol.com" <jmsatb5 at aol.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:21:46 -0700 (PDT)
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BTW, as Constant Readers here know, several months ago I signed onto a
project that I've not been able to discuss until the studio chose to
break the news.  (There are, believe it or not, two others with
similar conditions that have been signed for...all this great stuff
and I can't talk about ANY of it.)  I got a note from my agent today
mentioning that one of these three will be announced in the trades
tomorrow.

When you hear what it is, you'll understand why Joe the Fanboy has
been chasing this one assignment for over a decade.

jms