Hurray for Hollywood historical accuracy! One of Hollywood's wackiest
moments came when the lock-jawed head of the NRA, Charleton Heston,
groused about Oliver Stone's film, JFK, not being historically accurate.
A cheeky fellow in the crowd asked Heston if he considered the
'historical accuracy' of a script before he made a film. The right-wing
agitprop turned away and did that silent disdain thing with his jaw that
he does so well.
It was interesting to open my Washington Post this morning and see a
small 5 paragraph article about the latest attempt to assassinate Castro
this time at the recent meeting of Latin American leaders in Panama. My
attention was really piqued when I read who the Panamanian authorities
had picked up as a member of the plot. It was Luis Posada Carilles. For
you that don't follow the arcana of U.S. intelligence slaughter craft,
Posada Carilles was convicted in Venezuela of the bombing of a Cubana
airliner that killed 103 people including the Cuban fencing team. He was
serving his sentence in Venezuela when he was sprung reportedly by CIA
bribes paid to some of those Venezuelan authorities that Hugo Chavez has
the gall to call corrupt. Credence to CIA involvement increased when
Posada Carilles showed up as the right hand man for CIA station chief,
Felix Rodriguez, at Ilopango Air Force Base in El Salvador. Of course,
Ilopango was a supply and staging area for the Contra war. Arms down;
drugs up. Hollywood films budget for cocaine and other drug consumption,
but they don't do enough 'shrooms to capture the truly brutal and
bizarre nature of American history. Carlo Parcelli
[log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> >It is by chance that the evening before subscribing to British-Poets I went
> >to the videotape store and rented The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson, a most
> >handsome snackaroo from Australia. I put the tape into the machine and the
> >picture show appeared on my color TV. Have you seen this film? The cruel and
> >savage behaviour of your compatriots toward my ancestors is appalling. On
> >what basis, by what right, do you presume to correct my grammar given the
> >history between our respective peoples?
>
> Gracious.
>
> Aren't Hollywood fillums always those ones where the bad guy is the one
> with the pommy accent? Aren't they deliriously free from any adherence to
> ahem historical accuracy? Can they really be the basis for grammatical
> relations?
>
> And aren't your ancestors and his compatriots chips off the same block?
> Certainly, they inherited certain imperialist leanings.
>
> Confused from Melbourne
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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:51:00 -0000
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Jiscmail, eh? I'm speechless.
Because just testing of course.
david bircumshaw
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