Ethical Diversions

[Joe Allonby]

I seem to recall once seeing a Jerry Lewis movie on late night TV where he
was a double for Hitler and was sent into Nazi Germany as a spy to
impersonate him. It was a comedy...er...sort of. Unspeakably bad.

On 6/28/06, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
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> On Jun 27, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Joe Allonby wrote:
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> On 6/27/06, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
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> > On Jun 26, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Oscar wrote:
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> > The grumbling I was referring to concerned the fact that the film
> > though well intentioned and well done was still essentially a
> > Hollywood fantasy.
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> Five words: The Day the Clown Cried
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> Though we'll never really know, by all reports an anti-masterpiece.
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> One of those objectively bad movies that might have  succeeded for the
> very reason that it failed so miserably.
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> The Brechian distantiality of it all.
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