Bunker Mulligan "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~Mark Twain

February 6, 2004

Discrimination

Filed under: Society-Culture — Bunker @ 10:31 am

Here we go again. “Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein said Thursday he believes the low Oscar-nomination count for “Cold Mountain” was due in part to stories in the U.S. press attacking the moviemakers’ decision to shoot the U.S. Civil War drama in Europe and not America.” He goes on to cite “American discrimination.”

Damn. I keep forgetting that in Hollywood, the only Americans are those in the film industry. You know, the ones always telling us how xenophobic and jingoistic we are.

Funny how these are the people who won’t nominate or vote for blacks to receive Oscars, and now didn’t nominate a movie filmed overseas. Yet they consider the rest of us to be bigots. They are also the ones telling us how wonderful Europe is, and how everyone there is smarter than we are.

Any bets on them changing?

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