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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (119)	10/15/1999 7:28:00 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Looks like I'll have to do another net search..... bp

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (119)	10/15/1999 7:30:00 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

I like only entertainers that have contributed something important to society. Bob Hope helped keep our military morale high in three wars. He belongs. Jerry Lewis never really entertained me, but he contributed millions to charity and practically invented televised telethons.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (119)	10/18/1999 12:59:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 3246

Entertainers frequently have a strong cultural impact, especially actors in certain roles or types of movies, such that it would be difficult to imagine a given milieu without them. It is a matter of speculation how important that impact is, I suppose, but it is idle merely to say that someone else would have come along and served a similar function when it could often be said in science or engineering that a discovery, invention, or application was a matter of time. Especially when the individual personality of the actor looms quite large, as with John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, or James Dean, it may be worthwhile to consider how much that person has mattered in the formation of the culture.....