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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (233861)	12/21/2009 1:23:42 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

I was talking to Josh Greer of RealD many months back about mike cimino and bankrupting hollywood and how Avatar felt like deja vu to me, he got very visibly agitated and Mr. Greer's shiny forehead starting beading a little sweat. LOL! I shot my own foot off again, I lost my job in the 3D industry not long after that - I think Josh made some calls so he wouldn't have to see me at any more meetings :( It is all theater and makebelieve - from hollywood to hedgefunds - youtube.com Yes we can!

To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (233861)	12/21/2009 1:26:47 PM
From: Smiling Bob	Respond to of 306849

------ ...This year, America can look for a nice lump of coal in its Christmas stocking. That lump will be called "the recovery." This recovery consists of a massive self-deception, made up of accounting tricks and falsified statistics, with a sugar-coating on top of sheer disbelief that the outcome could be anything but a particular happy ending -- namely, the continued levitation of the unsustainable. What is most amazing about Mr. Cameron's holiday blockbuster is the explicit message that America is a society that deserves to be punished (and humiliated!) by others who manage their own relations with reality better than we do. I wonder how much that will secretly account for its popularity. I wonder what the leaders of China will make of it. The other current embodiment of national character failure, Tiger Woods, golfer, has also dazzled the American public. Personally I find it much more interesting to learn that he was a really lousy tipper than that he got a lot of action on the side with opportunistic bar girls, porn stars, and other denizens of the sports-entertainment netherworld. Is it not also amusing that golf is even taken seriously as an athletic pursuit? I mean, why not pancake-flipping? Or dice? Or shooting rats at the landfill? This is the kind of knucklehead culture we have become after six decades of the softest life imaginable.