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I hope you can understand all this.

Posted by Troy (A) on February 10, 2004 at 10:50:41

In Reply to: First - look in the mirror posted by Victor Khomenko on February 10, 2004 at 10:05:26:

For the life of me I can't connect a deviant like Belushi to myself... so I find your repeated "can't laugh at youself" so silly... he was a social moron, a drunk and a drug user, I believe I share none of those "qualities".

So much of what I say to you, you don't understand, or choose not to.

Belushi is NOT like you. He is making fun OF you. THAT'S why you don't like him.

You say "who cares about his drug addiction"? Well, if you don't, then all I can tell you you should. Funny I have to tell that to a grown man.

So why was it ok For Bogart and Spencer Tracy to drink and smoke themselves to death? Actors addictions are as common as dirt. Show me an actor and I'll show you a drunk, a wife beater, a drug abuser- an addict of every stripe. Why single Belushi out? I don't care about Belushi's drug addiction any more than I care about WC Field's drinking or Errols Flynn's sex addiction. Nope, better not let your kids watch ANY movies if you're concerned with actors setting bad examples.

Regarding the sensitivity... look in the mirror again. I was just typing my thoughs after watching a particular film, you came out like Jack from the box, swinging wildly.

Go back and read your original post about Monster and how "American film is a culture of GARBAGE". Every day you come to this board and spout this sort of rubbish. When someone fights back, then you get all whiney and defensive. You can't have it both ways. I will give you back the same level that you give me.

I can't STAND when arrogant snobs like you spout quotes from things like Cyrano and then act superior because you don't think I know Cyrano. It's a perfect example of your uninformed assumptions about people that could possibly think Belushi is funny. Again, why can't an individual like both? Your closed minded highbrow arrogance is monumental.

You say you're concerned with America because you live here. Don't try and make it become the America of your skewed ideals. Part of American culture is that we embrace charachters like Belushi because he deflates pretension and higbrow snobishness. America is NOT about people spouting Cyrano references. It has NEVER been about people spouting Cyrano references. So don't try to create an America in YOUR image. America is what America is. Deal with it.

This is the funniest part. I agree with you about how Hollywood is over run by accountants, MBA's and brown nosing yes-men. Yes, the artists, the ones that are trying to make good movies are getting squeezed out on every side. But the difference is that I know that it has ALWAYS been that way in Hollywood. Your ideals about a Hollywood of the bygone days are false. Hollywood has ALWAYS been about business and money first. That anything of artistic worth comes out of the industry, both THEN and NOW is a miracle. Actually, I think that American cinema is pretty strong here in the first few years of the 21st Century, mainly because of a thriving independent film business working outside the Hollywood system.

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