Hi,
Thanks for your feedback. Mitzi. Perhaps others might want to make comments on the Fox message board for the film as well. Go to
http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/theringer/ and click on the message board link.
There is also a link to the Special Olympics people, who I did write to about the 'wisdom' of signing on to a film that, in a 90-second teaser, shows individuals with intellectual difference as morally upright, angelic, there to teach us a lesson about human goodness, sexually undesirable/sexually frustrated, cute, funny, easily duped - in short, as either super-human or less-than-human. Whatever happened to People First? Here is that link, if you want to contact them:
http://www.specialolympics.org/Special+Olympics+Public+Website/English/Contact_Us/default.htm
Best,
Claudia Malacrida
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitzi Waltz" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Claudia Malacrida" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:07 AM
Subject: Re: Links to Ringer
> ... and the Special Olympics organisation has signed on as a sponsor....
>
> (It's worth noting that non-disabled athletes *have* tried to compete in the Special Olympics, and some have
> been caught and barred in the past. You'd have to be as stupid as Johnny Knoxville to find that funny though.)
> mw
>
> BTW, there's a message board on the site that's pretty empty. It might be fun to add some comments.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Claudia Malacrida <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Friday, November 18, 2005 4:03 am
> Subject: Links to Ringer
>
>> If anyone has any question about the perspectives of the
>> filmmakers, check out the trailer...
>>
>> http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/theringer/
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