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| jb |
It was a "make up" award for all the times they passed him over. If was clearly not close to some of his best work, and it was very forced. Don't look for much hype of the Beacon DVD, as if it is even remotely close to the 4 Flicks set, it will be a bitter disappointment.
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| 26th February 2007 02:29 PM |
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It was a "make up" award for all the times they passed him over. If was clearly not close to some of his best work, and it was very forced. Don't look for much hype of the Beacon DVD, as if it is even remotely close to the 4 Flicks set, it will be a bitter disappointment.
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What about O'Toole, talk about being passed over... he crapped in his depends last night... |
| 26th February 2007 02:33 PM |
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What about O'Toole, talk about being passed over... he crapped in his depends last night...
Lord Jim was my favorite O'Toole movie. Also, were you aware that contrary to popular thought, Laurence of Arabia was a Zionist!!! Israel is our god given right, and no one, from Pat Buchanan to the mad man running Iran today, will ever take our land. Here O Israel, the Lord your god, the Lord is one". We fought a politically correct war against Hezbollah, and still killed 800 of their terrorists and flattened much of Lebanon..do not believe for one second we lost...we simply. b/c of world pressure, had no tome to finish killing the enemy. With gods help. we shall, similar to 81, take out Iran's nuclear facilities, and again, save the world from another madman. Never again my friend, will Jews sit passively while others seek our destruction. With or without US aid, we will protect eretz yisrael from all who seek her destruction.....be it a preemptive strike, or god forbid a all out nuclear response to a missile sent from Tehran, we will never be defeated.
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| 26th February 2007 02:38 PM |
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Lord Jim was my favorite O'Toole movie. Also, were you aware that contrary to popular thought, Lauwrence of Arabia was a Zionist!!! Israel is our god given right, and no one, from Pat Buchanan to the mad man running Iran today, will ever take out land. Here O Israel, the Lord your god, the Lord is one".
I didn't know... |
| 26th February 2007 02:39 PM |
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| Saint Sway |
Peter O'Toole is the Iggy Pop of the Oscars |
| 26th February 2007 02:40 PM |
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quote:
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Peter O'Toole is the Iggy Pop of the Oscars
I didn't know...
That exppains all that peanut butter smeared across his body! |
| 26th February 2007 03:08 PM |
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" With gods help. we shall, similar to 81, take out Iran's nuclear facilities, and again, save the world from another madman. Never again my friend, will Jews sit passively while others seek our destruction. With or without US aid, we will protect eretz yisrael from all who seek her destruction.....be it a preemptive strike, or god forbid a all out nuclear response to a missile sent from Tehran, we will never be defeated. "
They got six million of us .......................
...............Never Again .
NEVER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| 26th February 2007 03:16 PM |
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| Steamboat Bill, Jr. |
No fucking way they screwed O'Toole for the EIGHTH time...NO FUCKING WAY! |
| 26th February 2007 03:17 PM |
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quote:
Steamboat Bill, Jr. wrote:
No fucking way they screwed O'Toole for the EIGHTH time...NO FUCKING WAY!
www.thepolicetour.com
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| 26th February 2007 03:20 PM |
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| pdog |
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www.gay.com
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when you reach 65,535 posts me and Buck with throw you a party...
In your mouth, everyone is coming! |
| 26th February 2007 03:22 PM |
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The race to 10 thousand lives on... |
| 26th February 2007 03:26 PM |
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The race to 10 thousand lives on...
Is that the amount of men Joey has slept with? |
| 26th February 2007 03:34 PM |
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Bloomberg Press
Israel Denies Plan to Attack Iran Nuclear Facility
By David Rosenberg
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Israel denied a newspaper report that it's preparing a nuclear attack against Iranian uranium- enrichment plants and said it remains committed to ending a dispute over Iran's nuclear program through diplomacy.
The denial followed a report in the London-based Sunday Times today, citing unidentified people in the Israeli military, that Israel plans to use nuclear ``bunker-buster'' bombs against the Natanz site in northern Iran. The Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, predicts Iran will be able to produce nuclear weapons within two years, the newspaper said.
Should such a plan be carried out, it would be the first use of nuclear weapons since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945. The United Nations Security Council last month imposed sanctions on Iran, through resolution 1737, for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment. Iran says its enrichment program is designed to produce nuclear power not weapons.
``Israel is 100 percent committed to the international effort to achieve a diplomatic solution and supports the full and expeditious implementation of UN resolution 1737,'' Mark Regev, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said by telephone today. Israel ``formally denies'' the newspaper report, he said.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini, speaking at a weekly briefing with reporters, said in response to the Sunday Times report that any ``attacker would quickly regret their act,'' the official Islamic Republic news Agency, or Irna, said on its Web site.
Arms Control
Emily Landau, director of the arms control and regional security program at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, said that while Israel hopes diplomacy will bring a suspension of Iran's program, officials have hinted at military action in what she called ``deterrent statements.''
``Israel is basically still hoping for some kind of diplomatic outcome to this crisis while trying to keep a low profile,'' Landau said by telephone. ``It shouldn't surprise us that Israel will also attempt to deter this danger, but I don't think we need to make leap between deterrent statements and plans to make an attack.''
Israel's concerns about the Iranian program have grown since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the Jewish state to be ``wiped off the map'' several times in the past year. The president On Jan. 3 said Iran will start producing nuclear fuel on an industrial scale soon, without elaborating.
Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to attack the concrete-shielded facility in Natanz, to the south of Tehran, using low-yield bunker-busters equal to 1/15th the power of Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the Sunday Times said.
Nuclear Reactor
Israel is also considering facilities near Isfahan and Arak as targets and its pilots are flying as far as Gibraltar, a 2,000-mile round-trip, to prepare, the newspaper said. Israel carried out air strikes against an Iraqi nuclear reactor in Osirak in 1981, the Sunday Times said.
Iran in November test-fired a Shahab-3 ballistic missile capable of traveling 2,000 kilometers, a range that would put Israel's major cities within reach.
Hosseini told reporters today that his country had no plans to suspend cooperation with the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency in spite of the Security Council resolution, Irna reported.
To contact the reporter on this story: David Rosenberg in Jerusalem at [email protected]
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quote:
Some Guy wrote:
Bloomberg Press
Israel Denies Plan to Attack Iran Nuclear Facility
By David Rosenberg
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Israel denied a newspaper report that it's preparing a nuclear attack against Iranian uranium- enrichment plants and said it remains committed to ending a dispute over Iran's nuclear program through diplomacy.
The denial followed a report in the London-based Sunday Times today, citing unidentified people in the Israeli military, that Israel plans to use nuclear ``bunker-buster'' bombs against the Natanz site in northern Iran. The Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, predicts Iran will be able to produce nuclear weapons within two years, the newspaper said.
Should such a plan be carried out, it would be the first use of nuclear weapons since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945. The United Nations Security Council last month imposed sanctions on Iran, through resolution 1737, for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment. Iran says its enrichment program is designed to produce nuclear power not weapons.
``Israel is 100 percent committed to the international effort to achieve a diplomatic solution and supports the full and expeditious implementation of UN resolution 1737,'' Mark Regev, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said by telephone today. Israel ``formally denies'' the newspaper report, he said.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini, speaking at a weekly briefing with reporters, said in response to the Sunday Times report that any ``attacker would quickly regret their act,'' the official Islamic Republic news Agency, or Irna, said on its Web site.
Arms Control
Emily Landau, director of the arms control and regional security program at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, said that while Israel hopes diplomacy will bring a suspension of Iran's program, officials have hinted at military action in what she called ``deterrent statements.''
``Israel is basically still hoping for some kind of diplomatic outcome to this crisis while trying to keep a low profile,'' Landau said by telephone. ``It shouldn't surprise us that Israel will also attempt to deter this danger, but I don't think we need to make leap between deterrent statements and plans to make an attack.''
Israel's concerns about the Iranian program have grown since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the Jewish state to be ``wiped off the map'' several times in the past year. The president On Jan. 3 said Iran will start producing nuclear fuel on an industrial scale soon, without elaborating.
Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to attack the concrete-shielded facility in Natanz, to the south of Tehran, using low-yield bunker-busters equal to 1/15th the power of Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the Sunday Times said.
Nuclear Reactor
Israel is also considering facilities near Isfahan and Arak as targets and its pilots are flying as far as Gibraltar, a 2,000-mile round-trip, to prepare, the newspaper said. Israel carried out air strikes against an Iraqi nuclear reactor in Osirak in 1981, the Sunday Times said.
Iran in November test-fired a Shahab-3 ballistic missile capable of traveling 2,000 kilometers, a range that would put Israel's major cities within reach.
Hosseini told reporters today that his country had no plans to suspend cooperation with the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency in spite of the Security Council resolution, Irna reported.
To contact the reporter on this story: David Rosenberg in Jerusalem at [email protected]
Don't worry my friend, unlike Van Halen reunion, this WILL happen!!!! Word to the mother!!! |
| 26th February 2007 04:08 PM |
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jb wrote:
Don't worry my friend, unlike Van Halen reunion, this WILL happen!!!! Word to the mother!!!
YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We must act NOW .
NOW !!!!!
Never again ........................... NEVER !!!!! |
| 26th February 2007 04:20 PM |
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Don't worry my friend, unlike Van Halen reunion, this WILL happen!!!! Word to the mother!!!
Flying over Spud Webb postin!
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| 26th February 2007 05:08 PM |
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from what i saw of the awards show last night i enjoyed it.
jack was a site to see behing them dark sunglasses.
i thought ellen did a pretty good job hosting
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| 26th February 2007 08:34 PM |
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jb wrote:
It was a "make up" award for all the times they passed him over. If was clearly not close to some of his best work, and it was very forced.
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agree,
it bothers me when awards are won for the wrong reasons...ain't fair.
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| 26th February 2007 09:39 PM |
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More like a mercy fuck, no doubt Scorseses long overdue for some recognition, the Departed was good, but it wasn't all that
They need to just restage the 1980 Academy Awards just to give it to him for Raging Bull, just say it's the 1980 Academy Awards: Redux -- Directors Cut |
| 26th February 2007 09:42 PM |
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Were the other movies nominated more deserving? |
| 26th February 2007 09:53 PM |
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Fatliners ? |
| 27th February 2007 01:07 AM |
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Israel is our god given right, and no one, from Pat Buchanan to the mad man running Iran today, will ever take our land. Here O Israel, the Lord your god, the Lord is one".
Your point is widely accepted, Josh, but it raises some questions for me. Does this God-given right to a particular patch of land apply only to the Hebrews, or do other peoples have this right; the Kurds, for example? Is the right to specific real estate unique to the Jews as the Chosen People and, if so, what's in it for the rest of us to worship this particular Celestial Realtor (Yahweh)? Or, on the other hand, does every people have its own god who grants property through warfare, as Jephthah the Gileadite suggests to the king of the children of Ammon in the Book of Judges: "Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomever Yahweh our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess." (Judges 11:24) If that's the way the world works, as the Bible tells us, wouldn't it be the religious duty of every ethnic group to fight for control of its own homeland under the banner of its own national god? Wouldn't that be a formula for ethnic cleansing and permanent war? And what of artificial nations which do not consist of a single ethnic identity; the United States being the chief example? Does such a nation have a unique national god? Or aren't all of these ideas vestiges of Neolithic superstitions?
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| 27th February 2007 07:49 AM |
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Well well well, Algore!
POWER: GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD; CONSUMPTION INCREASE AFTER 'TRUTH'
Mon Feb 26 2007 17:16:14 ET
Nashville Electric Service/Gore House
2006
High 22619 kWh Aug – Sept
Low 12541 kWh Jan - Feb
Average: 18,414 kWh per month
2005
High 20532 Sept - October
Low 12955 Feb - March
Average: 16,200 kWh per month
Bill amounts
2006 – $895.60 (low) $1738.52 (high) $1359 (average)
2005 – $853.91 (low) $1461 (high)
Nashville Gas Company
Main House
2006 – $990(high) $170 (low) $536 (average)
2005 – $1080 (high) $200 (low) $640 (average)
Guest House/Pool House
2006 – $820 (high) $70 (low) $544 (average)
2005 – $1025 (high) $25 (low) $525 (average)
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization, issued a press release late Monday:
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).
In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.
Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.
Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.
“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.
In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.
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| 27th February 2007 07:52 AM |
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What a waste! |
| 27th February 2007 07:57 AM |
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quote:
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What about O'Toole, talk about being passed over... he crapped in his depends last night...
Wait, didn't he win an Academy Award a few years ago? I could swear I remember him accepting an Oscar. He's one of the last of The Greats. We'll never see the likes of him again.
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| 27th February 2007 08:00 AM |
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He got that Lifetime Honorary Oscar. He shouldn't have won for Venus but Forest Whitaker shouldn't ahve won for "Scotland" which BTW was an excellent novel. Silly Leo should've won for The Departed but he wasn't even nominated. |
| 27th February 2007 08:14 AM |
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He got that Lifetime Honorary Oscar. He shouldn't have won for Venus but Forest Whitaker shouldn't ahve won for "Scotland" which BTW was an excellent novel. Silly Leo should've won for The Departed but he wasn't even nominated.
Ah, the old "Lifetime Achievement" award. Jeez, you'd think after all the great roles this guy has played he'd have won Best Actor somewhere along the line. "Lawrence of Arabia," "Goodbye Mr. Chips," "The Night of the Generals"...hell, he was even good in a throwaway like "The Stunt Man." It just ain't right.
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| 27th February 2007 04:20 PM |
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Ah, the old "Lifetime Achievement" award. Jeez, you'd think after all the great roles this guy has played he'd have won Best Actor somewhere along the line. "Lawrence of Arabia," "Goodbye Mr. Chips," "The Night of the Generals"...hell, he was even good in a throwaway like "The Stunt Man." It just ain't right.
At eight nominations, he is now the most nominated actor never to win an Oscar. Hell I'd say that's a greater honor than actually winning it. His performance in The Ruling Class is one of the greatest performances ever on film, instead they give it to Brando for sticking cotton in his mouth.
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| 27th February 2007 04:35 PM |
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Steamboat Bill, Jr. wrote:
No fucking way they screwed O'Toole for the EIGHTH time...NO FUCKING WAY!
My thoughts exactly. It was nice to see Ennio Morricone FINALLY recognized - although he should have won an oscar long before now. |
| 27th February 2007 04:37 PM |
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Steamboat Bill, Jr. wrote:
At eight nominations, he is now the most nominated actor never to win an Oscar. Hell I'd say that's a greater honor than actually winning it. His performance in The Ruling Class is one of the greatest performances ever on film, instead they give it to Brando for sticking cotton in his mouth.
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I ahven't seen The Ruling Class but Brando was superb in The G. Who beat out O'Toole for Lawrence of Arabia, Herman's Hermits? |
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