July 12, 2013

Historian: Hollywood Worked In Near-Open Collaboration With Hitler, Nazis
— Ace

Very interesting bit of history that the mythmakers of Hollywood have, strangely enough, avoided exploring.

The book comes out in October. Or, as Hollywood knows it, Oktober.

[H]ere's the arguable game-changer: Urwand unearthed evidence that suggests the studios were not merely self-censoring in an effort to keep their shareholders, audiences, and industry and government monitors happy. Rather, he says, the studios began working in detailed coordination with Nazi officials, putting profits above principles.

Largely through the Third Reich's vice consul in Los Angeles, Georg Gyssling, the Nazi-Hollywood relationship gave Hitler and his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, effectual power over what films got made, what scenes got cut, which stars and filmmakers were blacklisted, and which Jewish studio employees in Germany were fired. The Germans demanded say not just over American films shown in Germany but over those shown anywhere. Nazi emissaries visited theaters worldwide to report back on whether promised scene cuts had in fact been carried out. If not, the officials scolded the studios and threatened to close German production and distribution markets to them. The studios, year after year, would promptly grovel and comply.

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1 Not surprised in the least....

Posted by: PAgirlinNC at July 12, 2013 09:49 AM (mPKiR)

2

And yet a Sarah Palin look-alike starring in Iron Sky means that all Conservatives are Nazis.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 12, 2013 09:49 AM (MdV+j)

3 And now it's China. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Posted by: EC at July 12, 2013 09:49 AM (GQ8sn)

4 Hollywood in league with totalitarians? 

Un-possible!

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at July 12, 2013 09:50 AM (/gHaE)

5 And this has changed how?

Posted by: Jay Carney at July 12, 2013 09:50 AM (Pr6hk)

6 And of course, the only reaction from the left will be, "Profits! They wanted to make money! Which means capitalism is evil and Hitler was obviously a capitalist!" "'Socialism' means nothing when it's used by people that have murdered millions!"

Posted by: David at July 12, 2013 09:50 AM (UtRhK)

7 Oh yeah.  American proggs envied the Nazis' ability to get shit done without a bunch of stupid representative republic rule of law getting in the way.

If Hitler hadn't double-crossed Stalin, they might not have ever fallen out of thrall.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at July 12, 2013 09:50 AM (/kI1Q)

8 Hitler? Who's that?

Now let me tell you about a real fascist - Joe McCarthy.

Posted by: ToursLepantoVienna at July 12, 2013 09:51 AM (UlI/7)

9 Nauseating. Tora Tora Tora was on this morning. It's a damned good thing they attacked us, otherwise we would've entered the war too late.

Posted by: Y-not at July 12, 2013 09:51 AM (5H6zj)

10 Now Hollywood(and others,Twitter for instance) grovel for the Chinese.

Posted by: US Government at July 12, 2013 09:51 AM (9XBK2)

11 In other news, water is wet.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, The Colossus of Independence at July 12, 2013 09:52 AM (fwARV)

12 Off,bloated,tyrannical sock!

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 09:53 AM (9XBK2)

13 Capitalists, rope, yadda-yadda.

Posted by: Vlady Lenin [/i] [/b] at July 12, 2013 09:53 AM (xvZYu)

14 Now where do the Muslims fit in with all this?

Posted by: katya, the designated driver at July 12, 2013 09:53 AM (DoZD+)

15

Hollywood.

What do you expect from a bunch of pedophiles?

Posted by: garrett at July 12, 2013 09:53 AM (ed+ac)

16 Not seeing the problem.

Posted by: Joe Kennedy at July 12, 2013 09:54 AM (mCNwt)

17 Huck Follywood.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 12, 2013 09:55 AM (cHZB7)

18 10 Now Hollywood(and others,Twitter for instance) grovel for the Chinese. --- Yep. Replacing all Chinese symbols with North Korean ones in the remake of Red Dawn isn't just craven ass-kissing, it is offensively stupid.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at July 12, 2013 09:55 AM (a3iAA)

19 **whistle**whistle**whistle**


Posted by: Joe McCarthy at July 12, 2013 09:56 AM (jvd3N)

20 WHAT?!

Posted by: alittleenglish at July 12, 2013 09:56 AM (SHZnC)

21

Hollywood was not the only people to support the Nazis prior to their invasion of Poland.  

Posted by: Charles Lindbergh at July 12, 2013 09:56 AM (m2CN7)

22 Two dozen comments and no reference to SHARKNADO! We're slipping, guys.

Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 12, 2013 09:57 AM (mCNwt)

23 Glenn Beck had this covered about two years ago. Hollywood essentially taught the Germans (more specifically, NAZIs) how to really do propaganda. The art began before that, but nothing had been as successful as the promotional success of the State of National Fascism.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 12, 2013 09:57 AM (eHIJJ)

24 I hate California Nazis

Posted by: Methos isn't fond of the ones in Illinois, either at July 12, 2013 09:58 AM (hO9ad)

25 Only the names have changed.

Posted by: Craig Poe at July 12, 2013 09:58 AM (BVkEs)

26 Ve have our veys ov making you pay $150 for the cinema.

Posted by: Stephen Schpielberg at July 12, 2013 09:58 AM (G9Mmf)

27 The memory of cutting those scenes are seared, seared  into my memory

Posted by: John Kerry at July 12, 2013 09:58 AM (Pr6hk)

28 I'm thinking this is before Hitler started popping caps  on the Polish border.

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 09:59 AM (LSDvp)

29 Historian: Hollywood Worked In Near-Open Collaboration With Hitler, Nazis That is practically the first half of my bio.

Posted by: george soros at July 12, 2013 09:59 AM (xiLzG)

30 Old and busted: Hollywood working with national socialists
New hawtness: Hollywood working with international socialists

Posted by: Rogue Low-Level Employee at July 12, 2013 10:00 AM (epWQP)

31 Hollywood was not the only people to support the Nazis prior to their invasion of Poland.
That's right.
BTW, has anyone seen my MasterRace Card? I had it at lunch.

Posted by: zombie margaret sanger at July 12, 2013 10:00 AM (Adm3q)

32 Woodrow Wilson's propaganda arm taught the Nazi's.The country was quite taken with fascism/communism through the 30's(and FDR was pretty much President for life wasn't he?)

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 10:01 AM (9XBK2)

33 'And of course, the only reaction from the left will be, "Profits! They wanted to make money! Which means capitalism is evil and Hitler was obviously a capitalist!" ' Except when it is time for the ultra liberal actors and directors to negotiate their own enormous pay for pretending to do shit. Then profit is A-okay. Still wondering, the top income tax rate for the rich is what, 37, or 39 %? So of all these ultra rich actors and directors who, ya know, care so much about the poor and down-trodden, what percent tax do they pay on their own ginormous pay?

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 12, 2013 10:01 AM (sloLA)

34 Hmmmm its like history repeating itself or some shit....


http://tinyurl.com/mwqfkp4

Posted by: dananjcon at July 12, 2013 10:01 AM (jvd3N)

35 Hollywood was not the only people to support the Nazis prior to their invasion of Poland. Posted by: Charles Lindbergh

I know, right?

Posted by: King Edward VIII at July 12, 2013 10:01 AM (6TB1Z)

36 Ambassador to England, Joe Kennedy, was a big Nazi apologist and fan.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at July 12, 2013 10:01 AM (/gHaE)

37 Chaplin took a lot of heat over The Great Dictator. The Three Stooges had done a Hitler parody a few months before that came out. And a lot of people had fled the Nazis, like Fritz Lang. The studios may have been pushing appeasement (like they do kissing the ass of the Chinese market today). But lots of people were anti-Nazi in Hollywood even before the war.

Posted by: zsasz at July 12, 2013 10:01 AM (MMC8r)

38 court back in session

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 12, 2013 10:01 AM (8sCoq)

39 Was this when Germany had a pact with Stalin? Because yeah. Once that went into the crapper they turned on the Nazis.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 12, 2013 10:02 AM (V1ZIU)

40 You mean like they do for China now?

Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 12, 2013 10:02 AM (VtjlW)

41 So, how's Hollywood doing on exposing Obama's NSA and institutional targeting of "other" Americans? I haven't heard much over all the silence. Surely Robert Redford et al. will be producing critical exposés in the movie genre.

Any day now.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at July 12, 2013 10:03 AM (eHIJJ)

42 I think we talked about this before in one of the open threads. 

Capitalists selling the rope that hangs them.  Or something like that.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 12, 2013 10:04 AM (ZbjNO)

43 Iron Man 3 had a specific Chinese cut made for them. Why? I don't know.

Posted by: EC at July 12, 2013 10:04 AM (GQ8sn)

44 Previews of coming attractions include a Trayvon Martin movie in which the script will be screened by Al Sharpton or some other race pimp.

Posted by: WalrusRex at July 12, 2013 10:04 AM (Hx5uv)

45 Posted by: zsasz at July 12, 2013 02:01 PM (MMC8r) That's very true and pretty much the only reason that I begrudgingly give Chaplin any respect. His open defiance of Nazism stands in stark contrast to his open support for Communism. There are time when I think that Eric Hoffer was writing about Chaplin in The True Believer.

Posted by: David at July 12, 2013 10:05 AM (UtRhK)

46 Ambassador to England, Joe Kennedy, was a big Nazi apologist and fan.

Posted by: Purp at July 12, 2013 02:01 PM (/gHaE)

 

 

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So was Charles Lindburgh. 

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 10:05 AM (LSDvp)

47 Ambassador to England, Joe Kennedy, was a big Nazi apologist and fan. Posted by: Purp at July 12, 2013 02:01 PM (/gHaE) I can't remember which Kennedy it was that was on trial for rape which time, but during voir dire for the jury, some juror was asked if he knew anything about the Kennedys. The guy said something about not much, just that Joe Kennedy made all that money running booze and was a huge Nazi. Needless to say, he was excused.

Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 12, 2013 10:05 AM (VtjlW)

48 this is my shocked face.

-_-

Posted by: wiserbud at July 12, 2013 10:05 AM (WCe8r)

49 jury being instructed now

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 12, 2013 10:05 AM (8sCoq)

50 Previews of coming attractions include a Trayvon Martin movie in which the script will be screened by Al Sharpton or some other race pimp. All I can say is Sharpton had better bring a translator.

Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 12, 2013 10:06 AM (mCNwt)

51 The fact that we didn't start shaving the heads of collaborators like the French is a shame.

Posted by: alittleenglish at July 12, 2013 10:06 AM (SHZnC)

52 Hollywood was not the only people to support the Nazis prior to their invasion of Poland. That's right. BTW, has anyone seen my MasterRace Card? I had it at lunch. It was next to the American Express Black Card.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2013 10:06 AM (hldu8)

53 So, if you are a Democrat today, you are a member of the party that:

1) Supported the KKK (and never kicked out a single member over their past membership in said KKK).
2) Supported the Nazis even as they were shipping the Jews to the camps.
3) Supported the Communists while they were starving, murdering and executing their way to a 60 million body count.
4) Has never apologized for or regretted 1 through 3.

Yet the Republican Party is evil?

Leftism is a mental disease, not a reasoned political philosophy.

Posted by: RoyalOil at July 12, 2013 10:06 AM (VjL9S)

54 "Attention all Jaeger pilots, Kaiju Level Three Alert."

See everyone later.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 12, 2013 10:06 AM (ZbjNO)

55 Previews of coming attractions include a Trayvon Martin movie in which the script will be screened by Al Sharpton or some other race pimp. Rewrite we much!

Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 12, 2013 10:06 AM (mCNwt)

56 I can't wait for the predictions of Messrs. Spielberg and Lucas to become true.  They said that in the future, movies will be much more expensive, and will stay in theaters for a long time, like 6months to a year.  It will be more of a high end experience, with food, comfortable seats, etc. 

IOW, what I can reproduce in my house at a small fraction of the cost.  HWood as we know it will wither and die.  Good.

Posted by: pep at July 12, 2013 10:07 AM (6TB1Z)

57 The Chinese were  none too happy when Hollywood made  Richard Gere's movie, Red Corner.    As a matter of fact,  has  Gere made a movie since then?

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 10:07 AM (m2CN7)

58 Shaming never helps anything

Posted by: Participation Trophy at July 12, 2013 10:07 AM (Pr6hk)

59 Hollywood!?!  Yes,  Hollywould.

Posted by: Dang at July 12, 2013 10:07 AM (Hx2XA)

60 Whoredom is nothing new to LA.

Posted by: maddogg at July 12, 2013 10:08 AM (OlN4e)

61 Speaking of nazis, the judge is giving the jury their conviction orders.

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 10:08 AM (LSDvp)

62 Some things never change.

Posted by: flounder at July 12, 2013 10:08 AM (Kkt/i)

63 My neighbor was in a mini series where he played a studio executive. He meets with a gestapo agent in a bar to discuss something. I don't remember the details because the gestapo was his baby sitter and I was a bit shocked.

Posted by: Shark Cracka! at July 12, 2013 10:08 AM (cjFRv)

64 Another great excuse to listen to some Slayer. Happy Friday!

Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula_51 at July 12, 2013 10:08 AM (Vgn84)

65 57 The Chinese were none too happy when Hollywood made Richard Gere's movie, Red Corner. As a matter of fact, has Gere made a movie since then? --- Pretty sure he has but no one cared. I think his career took a significant hit when he went before a crowd at a post-911 in New York rally asking for them to give non-violence a chance.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at July 12, 2013 10:09 AM (a3iAA)

66

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57The Chinese were none too happy when Hollywood made Richard Gere's movie, Red Corner. As a matter of fact, has Gere made a movie since then?

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 02:07 PM (m2CN7) "

 

MMmmffmfmffmfpppppppttttt!!!

Posted by: Gere's girbil, looking for daylight at July 12, 2013 10:09 AM (OlN4e)

67

Couldn't we insert 'muslim extremist' here easier than nazi?  Look at how they've reworked plots of books turned into movies/tv shows so that the bad guys aren't muslim.

 

Posted by: AdamPM at July 12, 2013 10:10 AM (x61Z7)

68 I need to see your tickets.

Posted by: That Nazi guy who usually needs to see your papers at July 12, 2013 10:10 AM (Hx2XA)

69 wow- some memes never die

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 12, 2013 10:10 AM (8sCoq)

70

Chaplin took a lot of heat over The Great Dictator

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Unfortunately, Chaplin was a committed Communist...

 

Posted by: junior at July 12, 2013 10:11 AM (UWFpX)

71 old, meh

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at July 12, 2013 10:11 AM (wR+pz)

72 Related: @JimPethokoukis "University students were amongst the first groups to sign up to the Nazi program in large numbers" http://www.nber.org/papers/w19201

Posted by: Y-not at July 12, 2013 10:11 AM (5H6zj)

73 Chaplin took a lot of heat over The Great Dictator. The Three Stooges had done a Hitler parody a few months before that came out. And a lot of people had fled the Nazis, like Fritz Lang. The studios may have been pushing appeasement (like they do kissing the ass of the Chinese market today). But lots of people were anti-Nazi in Hollywood even before the war. Both of those were in 1940. Before Pearl Harbor but after the invasion of Poland. That was really the event that put cold water on international tolerance of the Nazi regime.

Posted by: AmishDude at July 12, 2013 10:12 AM (T0NGe)

74 Have they drawn and quartered GZ yet?

Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 12, 2013 10:12 AM (mCNwt)

75 Related: @JimPethokoukis "University students were amongst the first groups to sign up to the Nazi program in large numbers" UC students?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2013 10:13 AM (hldu8)

76 The groveling to islam is different I think,based purely on fear.Also the old left wing feeling that anything that is against the west and capitalism is good.

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 10:13 AM (9XBK2)

77 It will be more of a high end experience, with food, comfortable seats, etc.

They don't have movie theaters with bars and sofas out on the coasts like we do out in flyover country?

Huh.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at July 12, 2013 10:13 AM (/kI1Q)

78 > Have they drawn and quartered GZ yet?


the judge is instructing the jury on the myriad ways available to them to do so

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 12, 2013 10:13 AM (8sCoq)

79 "University students were amongst the first groups to sign up to the Nazi program in large numbers" UC students? Law schools.

Posted by: AmishDude at July 12, 2013 10:13 AM (T0NGe)

80 http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/134503/hollywood-nazi-urwand Here is where I first saw the story a little over a month ago. I forget who the tip-off was- PJ Tattler, I think.

Posted by: Bill H at July 12, 2013 10:15 AM (3sZO1)

81 Has Hollywood as a group EVER done anything right except for their support of the troops in WWII?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 12, 2013 10:15 AM (QJcz+)

82 Why is CNN's feed two second faster than Fox?

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at July 12, 2013 10:15 AM (wR+pz)

83 Unfortunately, Chaplin was a committed Communist...
Posted by: junior

And he hung out a lot with Democrat,  William Randolph Hurst.  Another one of the original limousine liberals.

Posted by: Dang at July 12, 2013 10:15 AM (Hx2XA)

84 They don't have movie theaters with bars and sofas out on the coasts like we do out in flyover country?

I wouldn't know, but feel free to argue with Spielberg and Lucas.

Posted by: pep at July 12, 2013 10:16 AM (6TB1Z)

85

Iron Man 3 had a specific Chinese cut made for them.

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I'm guessing that they changed the name of the Mandarin.  iirc, that's a loaded term in China.

 

Posted by: junior at July 12, 2013 10:16 AM (UWFpX)

86 Chaplin would have been go9ing against the line from Moscow criticizing Hitler in 1940.Commies in the low countries and France did everything in their power to help the Nazi's  defeat their own countries on orders from Moscow.

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 10:16 AM (9XBK2)

87 Chaplin was kicked out of the country for being a communist. I have no problem with that.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 12, 2013 10:16 AM (V1ZIU)

88 Read Diana West's American Betrayal. When the Nazi-Soviet pact fell through, then Hollywood turned on the Nazi's. Hollywood worked in collaboration with the Soviets, sometimes under pressure from Washington to be even more helpful to the red cause.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at July 12, 2013 10:16 AM (29vnO)

89 And this has changed from them how?  They still want to destroy America.

Posted by: Johnnyreb at July 12, 2013 10:18 AM (cDr8Y)

90 Read Diana West's American Betrayal. When the Nazi-Soviet pact fell through, then Hollywood turned on the Nazi's. Hollywood worked in collaboration with the Soviets, sometimes under pressure from Washington to be even more helpful to the red cause.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at July 12, 2013 02:16 PM (29vnO)

 

 

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And has remained so to this day.

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 10:18 AM (LSDvp)

91 Interesting tidbit:Hitler loved American movies,Clark Gable was his favorite actor.When Gable was an air gunner and could potentially fly missions Hitler had special orders for anyone who might capture him.

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 10:19 AM (9XBK2)

92 88 Read Diana West's American Betrayal. When the Nazi-Soviet pact fell through, then Hollywood turned on the Nazi's. Hollywood worked in collaboration with the Soviets, sometimes under pressure from Washington to be even more helpful to the red cause. Posted by: somebody else, not me at July 12, 2013 02:16 PM (29vnO) Yep. Ronald Radosh wrote an excellent book about this very topic.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 12, 2013 10:19 AM (V1ZIU)

93 I wouldn't know, but feel free to argue with Spielberg and Lucas.

I'm actually laughing at them.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at July 12, 2013 10:19 AM (/kI1Q)

94 Ambassador to England, Joe Kennedy, was a big Nazi apologist and fan.

Posted by: Purp at July 12, 2013 02:01 PM (/gHaE)

One of my favorite lines from Magic City, has Ike's Dad ranting at Shabbas dinner--something to the effect, "Joeseph Kennedy, you anti-Zionist piece of shit, may you rot in hell for all eternity"

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at July 12, 2013 10:19 AM (kXoT0)

95 At this point, what does it matter?

Posted by: toby928© retweets at July 12, 2013 10:20 AM (codCi)

96 Case in point is the film "The Blue Angel" which Darth Shicklegruber banned in '33...

Hollywood took note in the aftermath of the release to peg Nazi sensibilities in production.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 12, 2013 10:20 AM (LRFds)

97 Joseph Kennedy loved the Nazis so much that he was removed from his post.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 12, 2013 10:20 AM (V1ZIU)

98 Read Neal Gabler's An Empire Of Their Own.  The early moguls - Mayer, Goldwyn, Zukor, Cohn, the Warners - all came from Russia or lands beyond the Pale.  They had first-hand knowledge of pogroms and were desperate to assimilate in America.  They most emphatically did not want to be seen as Jews (IOW, as alien, corrupting influences), even if this meant dealing with Nazi Germany.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 12, 2013 10:20 AM (zF6Iw)

99 One thing to note is that Hollywood tended to follow whatever the prevailing sensibility of the Soviet Union was in vogue at any given time, which is I am certain "just a coincidence."

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 12, 2013 10:22 AM (LRFds)

100 It's Hubris coupled with covetousness.  Hollywood is an industry full of people with egos larger than the sky.  They think that because they are successful and have received some measure of power that they would be better at running the world than everyone else. 

Which philosophies allow one person or a small group of people to make large decisions for everyone else?  Statist philosophies like communism with a centrally planned economy, or fascism with same demand a small group in charge.

Of course those in charge should have a comfortable living, so they can be free from distractions while commanding everyone around them to produce "from their abilities".  The land is rich, and those in charge should be so too.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2013 10:22 AM (8ifMA)

101 Was this when Germany had a pact with Stalin? Because yeah. Once that went into the crapper they turned on the Nazis. Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 12, 2013 02:02 PM (V1ZIU) The Molotov Pact was August 1939 to June 1941, so yah, but by then it didn't really matter. The Nazis had other shit on their minds and anything we owned there had pretty much all been nationalized.

Posted by: Bill H at July 12, 2013 10:22 AM (3sZO1)

102 99 MP4,

It also meant they had interesting sets of heartstrings WRT Russia's revolution.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 12, 2013 10:23 AM (LRFds)

103 Lucas and Spielberg are partly right, I think. The only movies you will see in the theaters will be CGI-fests. Not Sharknado, but Michael Bay Presents Sharknado. They have to provide an experience you won't get at home. There is something to be said for social experiences, but sitting in a dark room watching a screen has none of them. So it will be IMAX, surround-sound, 3D, appealing to everybody. It will be even more on well-established brands so that you know the whole movie before you show up. And "movies" will be seen as a lower art form than not just TV-released movies but TV shows. And Michael Bay will be king of Hollywood.

Posted by: AmishDude at July 12, 2013 10:23 AM (T0NGe)

104 It is contradictory since Hollywood was very sympathetic to ( kind of funny) the Republicans in the Spainish Civil War.  

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 10:23 AM (m2CN7)

105 Er, perhaps I'm mistaken, but I'm pretty sure a large number of the heads of the major studios during the '30s were Jewish, so before getting all outraged, why don't we wait until the book is actually published and check out the details. Pro tip (from Hollywood): just because somebody says something doesn't necessarily mean it's true.

Posted by: Louis B. Mayer at July 12, 2013 10:23 AM (0gnMc)

106 They don't have movie theaters with bars and sofas out on the coasts like we do out in flyover country? Huh. Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at July 12, 2013 02:13 PM (/kI1Q) I was gonna say, theaters like that have been around for awhile now. Hell, the artsy fartsy movie theater I used to go to in Cleveland was very popular not so much because it showed Films rather than movies but because the liquor license was grandfathered in and you could get all kinds of booze and beer on tap. Add that to the three dollars Tuesday night showings and good times, good times.

Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 12, 2013 10:23 AM (VtjlW)

107 Collaboration is just one part of the artistic process.  :/

Posted by: no good deed at July 12, 2013 10:23 AM (WmLrU)

108
That's why Baracknado will never see the light of a projector.

Posted by: All bite, no teeth at July 12, 2013 10:24 AM (Opo0Q)

109 Hollywood Socialists palling around with National Socialists in the 1930s, when both groups were on good terms with the Soviet Communist Socialists? And today the Hollywood Socialists are kissing the asses of Chinese Communist Socialists?

The song remains the same.

Posted by: Stu-22 at July 12, 2013 10:24 AM (AiYlm)

110 105 They sided with the commies over the fascists.Not surprising.

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 10:24 AM (9XBK2)

111 Frickin' meeting! So, was Guy all emotional/racial with no facts?

Posted by: RWC at July 12, 2013 10:25 AM (fWAjv)

112 Have you no sense of decency, Hollywood?

Posted by: Roy at July 12, 2013 10:25 AM (VndSC)

113 " just because somebody says something doesn't necessarily mean it's true." Lies, I tell you. Lies! (And that's the truth.)

Posted by: Daniel Goldhagen at July 12, 2013 10:26 AM (0gnMc)

114 85
Iron Man 3 had a specific Chinese cut made for them.
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I'm guessing that they changed the name of the Mandarin. iirc, that's a loaded term in China.

Posted by: junior at July 12, 2013 02:16 PM (UWFpX

 

I think it was that they shot some additional scene or two of Iron Man in China.  I actually think the Chinese didn't really care for it either because they recognized it for what it was.  Blatant pandering.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR3Ky7vdVuI

Posted by: buzzion at July 12, 2013 10:26 AM (LI48c)

115 Oh, I forgot - the Selznicks were Jews, too.  About the only major producer who wasn't was Darryl Zanuck.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 12, 2013 10:26 AM (zF6Iw)

116 Er, perhaps I'm mistaken, but I'm pretty sure a large number of the heads of the major studios during the '30s were Jewish, so before getting all outraged, why don't we wait until the book is actually published and check out the details.

Go check out some of the details in the article Instapundit linked.  They state the central premise, give the names of the two historians with views in conflict on the subject, and state the case of each historian in some measure.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2013 10:26 AM (44jNh)

117 So, was Guy all emotional/racial with no facts?

Shockingly, not very racial but, yeah, fact free.

Posted by: toby928© retweets at July 12, 2013 10:27 AM (codCi)

118 Hollywood stayed as neutral as it could WRT Nazi Germany for as long as it could. 

Once the Nazis invaded Poland the Soviet Secret Services were warier of Germany than Stalin allowed himself to be, everyone grasped Molov/Ribbentrop was a Mexican standoff but Stalin was convinced the Red Orchestra would give him at least 6 months advanced warning with precision on German force disposition.

It's important to note that Soviet intelligence acquisition was not often a direct transmission to Mother Russia and often wound up orbiting the planet before Yezhov, Yagoda, or Beria in sequence had access.


Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 12, 2013 10:27 AM (LRFds)

119 They had a love-affair with Mussolini's Italy, too.
Just a different flavor or socialism.

Kow-tow to the Nazis, kow-tow to the Chinese communists.

Posted by: Hobbiehawk at July 12, 2013 10:27 AM (IPGju)

120 The studios, year after year, would promptly grovel and comply.

Sounds like the Democrat party in response to Moslems.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 12, 2013 10:27 AM (xjpRj)

121

Commies in the low countries and France did everything in their power to help the Nazi's defeat their own countries on orders from Moscow.

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Actually, the pro-Nazi line from Moscow after the non-agression pact apparently helped cause most of the Communists in France to come to their senses.  Apparently a lot of them had joined the Communists because the Communists were the only ones openly opposing the Nazis (a sad fact regarding the '30s - the Nazis and the Communists were the only two groups openly opposing each other, and quite a few people joined one group because it was the best opposition to the other, not realizing that both organizations were shadows of each other).  When the Soviets suddenly reversed their anti-Nazi attitude, a good-sized chunk of the French Communists suddenly realized that taking orders from Moscow wasn't such a good idea.

 

Unfortunately, the French government didn't take advantage of this, and apparently jailed as many of them as they could instead of taking the time to figure out which ones could safely be given rifles and sent to the front lines.  Not that it would have made a difference in the end, mind you.

 

Posted by: junior at July 12, 2013 10:27 AM (UWFpX)

122 They sided with the commies over the fascists.Not surprising.

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 02:24 PM (9XBK2)

 

Not suprising of course, but it was well known that the Nazis basically did their war games there in support of the  Nationalists.     That is why I somewhat question the premise of these collaboration  allegations.   

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 10:28 AM (m2CN7)

123 So, was Guy all emotional/racial with no facts? Many people made this observation (but I made it on Twitter before I heard anybody else). Guy was arguing like a defense attorney.

Posted by: AmishDude at July 12, 2013 10:28 AM (T0NGe)

124 Of course Stalin  was also a huge anti semite.Yet many jews were committed communists.

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 10:28 AM (9XBK2)

125
Hollywood was not the only people to support the Nazis prior to their invasion of Poland.








Yeah, but Hollywood really didn't 100% turn on the Nazis until the summer of '41 and Operation Barbarossa (invasion of the USSR).

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 12, 2013 10:28 AM (TIIx5)

126

Hollywood putting profit ahead of principle?  I am shocked.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at July 12, 2013 10:28 AM (hLRSq)

127 Riddle me this, can anyone think of a Hollywood movie that treated Mexican gangs unsympathetically?

Posted by: Future Buddha at July 12, 2013 10:29 AM (oDCMR)

128 110 Stu-22,

The song *always* has remained the same.

The hilarious thing, to me, about the Hollywood infotainment love for collectivism is they are decidedly against PERSONAL collectivism WRT themselves.....

I take solace in knowing that the beautiful people will be shocked when worker's paradise simply has them living as current middle middle class folk do rather than their Maharaja like toils.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 12, 2013 10:29 AM (LRFds)

129

Before the War, Mussolini especially was very popular with the Elite crowd here in the US.

Posted by: dan-O at July 12, 2013 10:30 AM (HWmoP)

130 And that's it...the Jury now has Zimmerman's life in its hands.

Posted by: @JohnTant at July 12, 2013 10:30 AM (eytER)

131 129 Riddle me this, can anyone think of a Hollywood movie that treated Mexican gangs unsympathetically? Posted by: Future Buddha at July 12, 2013 02:29 PM (oDCMR) End of Watch

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at July 12, 2013 10:30 AM (09o/X)

132

37 - "And a lot of people had fled the Nazis, like Fritz Lang. "

 

Oh, yes, not just big names like Fritz Lang, Peter Lorre and Conrad Veidt:  lots of off-camera talent came to Hollywood when the Nazis took over in 1933.  It was a real brain drain from the Germany film industry; there are hardly any really memorable movies from the Nazi era.  I think Leni Riefenstahl in a documentary said that German film became provincial once the Jews were purged - a huge amount of collected knowledge and expertise just departed.  Not just Jews, of course: Communists and homosexuals were also kicked out.  That's why it surprises me that there could have been such warm relations between the Hollywood studios and the Nazi government; they can't claim that they didn't know what was really going on - their own industry was full of German refugees who could tell them.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at July 12, 2013 10:30 AM (FkH4y)

133 Why is CNN's feed two second faster than Fox?
The NSA isn't monitoring CNN's feed.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at July 12, 2013 10:31 AM (Adm3q)

134 Shorter version of Debra Nelson's jury instructions: Keep deliberating until you deliver the correct verdict.

Posted by: George Orwell half in the bag at July 12, 2013 10:31 AM (mCNwt)

135 Riddle me this, can anyone think of a Hollywood movie that treated Mexican gangs unsympathetically?

Posted by: Future Buddha at July 12, 2013 02:29 PM (oDCMR)

 

Man On Fire

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 10:31 AM (m2CN7)

136 Before the War, Mussolini especially was very popular with the Elite crowd here in the US.

He made the trains run on time.  Choo-Choo!

Posted by: Sheriff Joe at July 12, 2013 10:32 AM (codCi)

137

129 Riddle me this, can anyone think of a Hollywood movie that treated Mexican gangs unsympathetically?


Posted by: Future Buddha at July 12, 2013 02:29 PM (oDCMR)

 

--------

 

Treasure of the Sierra Madre....?  

Posted by: @JohnTant at July 12, 2013 10:32 AM (eytER)

138 Man On Fire Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 02:31 PM (m2CN7) Sin nombre

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at July 12, 2013 10:32 AM (09o/X)

139

Judge's conviction commands over.  Up to the jury.

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 10:32 AM (LSDvp)

140 @Anna_Puma - Enjoy, I am taking my son to see it Tuesday morning - he loves Godzilla movies (and Gamera) and giant mecha.

Posted by: Penfold at July 12, 2013 10:33 AM (Fbt5B)

141 It was a real brain drain from the Germany film industry; there are hardly any really memorable movies from the Nazi era. See? SEE? And yet you conservatives keep opposing immigration.

Posted by: Marco Rubio at July 12, 2013 10:33 AM (mCNwt)

142 A lot of movies from the 30's really expound socialist/communist/fascist ideals.The rich are always villains unless they give up their wealth and join in with the everyman.I catch some on TCM that I find very disturbing.The idolatry of FDR ,of unions and of his NRA.

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 10:33 AM (9XBK2)

143 That's why it surprises me that there could have been such warm relations between the Hollywood studios and the Nazi government;

Maybe they fled, but continued to have sympathies, like lefties who flee lefty cities, but then vote the same way in their new home.  Or maybe the people collaborating were higher up in the chain than those who fled the Nazis.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2013 10:34 AM (44jNh)

144

@Anna_Puma - Enjoy, I am taking my son to see it Tuesday morning - he loves Godzilla movies (and Gamera) and giant mecha.

-----------------

 

I'm going tomorrow.

 

NRO has a slideshow of stills from the movie that you might want to take a peek at, or show to your son.

 

Posted by: junior at July 12, 2013 10:34 AM (UWFpX)

145 #129 The Magnificent Seven?

Posted by: Jack at July 12, 2013 10:34 AM (gWHwW)

146 THE VERDICT IS IN!!! Sharknado was "OK". I didn't watch it per-se. I recorded it and had my daughter watch it and tell me if it was good.

Posted by: UWP at July 12, 2013 10:35 AM (r98SZ)

147

And now, from our secret camera feed in the jury room:

 

Every juror gets 5 minutes to vent, followed by fore-person selection, followed by the Not Guilty  unanimous vote.  45 minutes.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 12, 2013 10:35 AM (BAS5M)

148 Man On Fire
Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 02:31 PM (m2CN7)

----

Love that movie.....

Posted by: fixerupper at July 12, 2013 10:35 AM (nELVU)

149 The Magnificent Seven?

Posted by: Jack at July 12, 2013 02:34 PM (gWHwW)

 

heh

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 10:35 AM (m2CN7)

150 Lets not forget that fascist depression era gem "Gabriel Over The White House."

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 10:36 AM (mCNwt)

151 148 THE VERDICT IS IN!!! Sharknado was "OK". I didn't watch it per-se. I recorded it and had my daughter watch it and tell me if it was good. BLDR is gonna nail you for child abuse.

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 10:37 AM (mCNwt)

152 Germany declared war on the US, not the other way around.  I read that Churchill dropped to his knees and thanked God for delivering his enemies into his hands.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 12, 2013 10:37 AM (Xq2WY)

153 152 That one is the worst of the worst but there are many others that don't go quite as far(it's available in full on Youtube btw).

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 10:37 AM (9XBK2)

154 I didn't watch it per-se. I recorded it and had my daughter watch it and tell me if it was good.

You didn't watch it "intrinsically, by and of itself", your daughter watched it.

My wife picked up "per se" from her family, and they love to throw it around.  It drives me nutty.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2013 10:37 AM (44jNh)

155

Riddle me this, can anyone think of a Hollywood movie that treated Mexican gangs unsympathetically?

----------------

 

The Three Amigos?

 

/duck

 

Posted by: junior at July 12, 2013 10:37 AM (UWFpX)

156 A lot of movies from the 30's really expound socialist/communist/fascist ideals.The rich are always villains unless they give up their wealth and join in with the everyman. Except for the ones running it.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2013 10:37 AM (hldu8)

157

Shorter version of Debra Nelson's jury instructions:


Keep deliberating until you deliver the correct verdict.

 

FFS.  I know she didn't use those exact words, but was that really what she said?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 12, 2013 10:37 AM (zF6Iw)

158

>>>Riddle me this, can anyone think of a Hollywood movie that treated Mexican gangs unsympathetically?

 

I'd have more empathy towards them if they'd go back to wearing the Zoot Suit.

Posted by: garrett at July 12, 2013 10:38 AM (NILLK)

159

"Or maybe the people collaborating were higher up in the chain than those who fled the Nazis. "

 

I suspect that might have been it.  The refugees were worker bees; the decisions were made by the guys upstairs with all the money.  Those fellows didn't have direct experience living under Nazi rule; and as someone else pointed out, successful people (especially if they're rich) don't believe that they need advice from anyone, so they figured they knew it all.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at July 12, 2013 10:38 AM (FkH4y)

160

Rather, he says, the studios began working in detailed coordination with Nazi officials, putting profits above principles.

 

So really nothing's changed since the era of Nazi Germany then.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 12, 2013 10:38 AM (4df7R)

161 I don't  know about gangs  but they always are supportive of revolutionaries.Tons of old westerns where Americans side with this or that revolutionary.

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 10:39 AM (9XBK2)

162 129 Apocolypto

Posted by: DAve at July 12, 2013 10:40 AM (albkL)

163

If Z is convicted, expect conservatives and the 2d Amendment to be dragged  through the mud  and then get the perverbial  MFM and political stomp.  It will be a dream come true  for the leftists.

 

They'll be in our faces constantly now.  

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 10:40 AM (LSDvp)

164 Maria Full of Grace was a good film. I learned more than I wanted to about narco trafficking.

Posted by: LadyS at July 12, 2013 10:40 AM (0zpQW)

165 From Jonah Goldberg in the J-file (his email "newsletter" and yes I am copying it, shut up): Now, if you don't know what Sharknado is, you're part of the problem. But to sum up: It's a "movie" about a freaky weather event (caused by global warming, of course) that results in sharks being swept up by first a hurricane and then a series of tornados, and then the sharks rain down on Los Angeles with a grim determination to eat anyone in their path. Amazingly, that premise is actually wildly more plausible than the execution. The whole movie was like one of those kids' placemat games where you have to spot "What's Wrong with This Picture?" To set out to identify the most ridiculous scene, the worst acting, or the dumbest dialogue of the movie is to march along the edge of a Mobius strip of stupidity toward madness. He had me at "Mobius strip".

Posted by: AmishDude at July 12, 2013 10:41 AM (T0NGe)

166 You know what would be an awesome remake? "Gabriel Over the White House" but with an all-shark cast.

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 10:41 AM (mCNwt)

167 You know that one thing that would help stiffen my spine to take the personal risk to acquit GZ on all counts--spiting that terrible, really bad, awful judge.  That and making the prosecutors cry.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at July 12, 2013 10:41 AM (kXoT0)

168 "Posted by: garrett at July 12, 2013 02:38 PM"


So...if Zimmerman is convicted...Zoot suit riot?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 12, 2013 10:42 AM (knoK7)

169 And now, from our secret camera feed in the jury room:

Every juror gets 5 minutes to vent, followed by fore-person selection, followed by the Not Guilty unanimous vote. 45 minutes.


Mounting each other will take at least 2 hours.

Posted by: toby928© seeks Kirk: Creator at July 12, 2013 10:42 AM (codCi)

170 150 Man On Fire Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 02:31 PM (m2CN7) ---- Love that movie..... --- Not my favorite movie, but it has its moments. Creasey's interrogation of the cop with the plastic explosive up his ass has to be the best part.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at July 12, 2013 10:43 AM (a3iAA)

171

So Hollywood loved Hitler, too. Color me unsurprised.

 

This whole Left/Right thing, the labels we ascribe to various bands of the political spectrum, doesn't work, he said, stating the obvious. We've been misleading ourselves. Whether inspired by Mein Kampf or Das Kapital, the underlying sentiment of those we oppose remains the same regardless of the (purely arbitrary) side of the spectrum we assign to them: the desire for hierarchical dominance over system-defined lessers and abject submission to those defined as betters, love of Big Brother and hatred of his enemies, the embrace of the totalitarian/authoritarian impulse. Some people--the cynical side of me thinks maybe most people--seem to want to be slaves of one sort or another. Those with ambition go after the overseer's job.

Posted by: troyriser at July 12, 2013 10:44 AM (vtiE6)

172
Elwood: Hollywood Nazis.

Jake:  I hate Hollywood Nazis.

Posted by: Blues Brothers at July 12, 2013 10:44 AM (4+FWp)

173 He had me at "Mobius strip". What is Möbius Dick? Something non-orientable that lives in the ocean.

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 10:45 AM (mCNwt)

174 A 1935 film of the  love, hate relationship   between FDR and Hitler:  "If I Had a Son".

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 10:45 AM (LSDvp)

175 The verdict is in! I'll drink 2 - 20oz cans instead of one 40oz bottle this afternoon.

Posted by: UWP at July 12, 2013 10:46 AM (r98SZ)

176 I just read a synopsis of "Gabriel Over The White House".  Wow.  It sounds insanely bad!  I especially liked this part:  "After Pendie confides in Beekman, with whom she has fallen in love, her belief that Judson has been inspired by the spirit of God's messenger, Archangel Gabriel, Judson demands the resignation of all his Cabinet members. Judson then addresses the Congress and, after requesting that a national state of emergency be declared, asks that Congress relinquish its power voluntarily to him...Fed up with bureaucratic resistance, Judson declares martial law and uses his presidential powers to dismiss the Congress...Using tanks and machine guns, Beekman and his men force Diamond's gang out of their hideout and, after a military trial, execute them. Judson then deals with the problem of foreign debts by calling a conference on his presidential yacht and threatening various world leaders with American military build-up if they refuse to stop their own excessive military spending. By blowing up two American battleships in front of his peers, Judson demonstrates his commitment to disarmament and encourages his allies to sign a peace covenant and repay their foreign debts

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at July 12, 2013 10:47 AM (FkH4y)

177 'No   place   like   home'  =  let  Germany  be  Germany.

Posted by: Fuhrer of Oz at July 12, 2013 10:47 AM (c4IyR)

178 Hollywood was all nice and cosy with the Nazis, who were socialists. And let the Nazis have script approval. Is it that big a leap to think that Hollywood also gave the Russians, who were communists, script approval? So, who were the totalitarian jackholes - Hollywood commies in thrall of the NVD and KGB or Joe McCarthy?

Posted by: Victimman, The Most Powerful Victim in the Universe! at July 12, 2013 10:48 AM (n50fF)

179 Some people--the cynical side of me thinks maybe most people--seem to want to be slaves of one sort or another. Yep. They want a strong daddy to protect them and make decisions for them.

Posted by: AmishDude at July 12, 2013 10:48 AM (T0NGe)

180 Eh. They do the same thing with today's Jew haters, the Islamists. Only probably without having to be asked.

Posted by: Chique d'afrique at July 12, 2013 10:48 AM (r+7wo)

181

First time I saw the Academy award winning great movie, Best Times Of Our Lives when I was a teenager,   I was suprised  by the scene where the man sitting at the soda fountain counter started bitching about the war like the left bitched about Iraq , (at that time for me my reference would have been Vietnam) .

 

Anyway,  I had thought as a kid that every  single person in the United States had supported  WWII  without question.   I guess I always knew that  History was summarized with mostly just the good parts but that  really opened my eyes to become interested in the details. 

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 10:48 AM (m2CN7)

182

>22

Nazinado?

Posted by: yeah, I watched all of it at July 12, 2013 10:48 AM (wAQA5)

183 Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at July 12, 2013 02:47 PM (FkH4y) Is this an Obama biopic?

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 10:48 AM (mCNwt)

184 End of Watch

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 56% more DOOM! at July 12, 2013 02:30 PM (09o/X)

 

Awesome flick that hardly anyone knows about, which is a shame.

Posted by: troyriser at July 12, 2013 10:48 AM (vtiE6)

185

Yep. They want a strong daddy to protect them and make decisions for them.

 

I'd like a sugar mommy, myself.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 12, 2013 10:49 AM (zF6Iw)

186 Hollywood was at the forefront of the "America First" movement, ie "Don't send your sons to die for England"

Until June 22, 1941 that is

Hollywood moved then to the forefront of the "SECOND FRONT NOW" movement led unsurprisingly by Charlie Chaplin


Posted by: kbdabear at July 12, 2013 10:50 AM (/9IC1)

187 Considering the evidence against Zimmerman, is there any need for the jury to retire?

Posted by: zombie thomas cromwell at July 12, 2013 10:50 AM (Adm3q)

188 Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 02:13 PM (9XBK2) The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at July 12, 2013 10:50 AM (yK4z+)

189 I'd like a sugar mommy, myself. The DNC called wondering where you have been.

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 10:50 AM (mCNwt)

190

176He had me at "Mobius strip".


What is Möbius Dick?

Something non-orientable that lives in the ocean.

 

Still laughing.

Posted by: Future Buddha at July 12, 2013 10:50 AM (oDCMR)

191 What's German for 'schadenfreude'?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at July 12, 2013 10:51 AM (bYRF2)

192 184 Yeah,that scene is interesting.I guess he is supposed to be a "right winger" isolationist.

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 10:51 AM (9XBK2)

193 Ron Paul ?

Posted by: blanker at July 12, 2013 10:51 AM (qQk+U)

194 OK, folks, I'm out.  Pray for Zimmerman.  Hope you all stay safe and have a great weekend.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 12, 2013 10:52 AM (zF6Iw)

195 1943.  Nazis battling desperately in USSR.
US forces in combat in North Africa and the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Burma.
American and British bombers hammering Germany around the clock.

Tex Avery produces the Academy Award-winning cartoon, "Blitz Wolf."

And an MGM executive tells him, "You might want to go a little easier on Hitler, Tex.  He could still win."

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at July 12, 2013 10:54 AM (Sq2RY)

196 What's a polar bear? A rectangular bear after a coordinate transform. I'll be here all week, and try the lobster.

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 10:54 AM (mCNwt)

197 Riddle me this, can anyone think of a Hollywood movie that treated Mexican gangs unsympathetically? "The Revenant" Totally awesome Zom-Com where soldier who returned undead from Iraq decides to use his zombie powers to fight crime. Creepy and hilarious in equal measures. One of the best low budget movies in years- unlike fucking Sharknado the effects are great and every bit of money is on the screen.

Posted by: Victimman, The Most Powerful Victim in the Universe! at July 12, 2013 10:54 AM (n50fF)

198 Awesome flick that hardly anyone knows about, which is a shame.

Yeah, good simple low-budget movie.

Posted by: toby928© seeks Kirk: Creator at July 12, 2013 10:55 AM (codCi)

199 What's German for 'schadenfreude'? ROTFLMAO?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2013 10:57 AM (hldu8)

200 Anybody remember those awful Arab terrorists in "The Sum of All Fears"?

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at July 12, 2013 10:57 AM (Sq2RY)

201 Anyone shocked that an industry well populated with Jews would kowtow to Nazis hasn't been paying attention to well known Hollywood Jews sucking up to Muslims and others who say outright that they want to rid the world of Jews

But ask a Hollywood "intellectual" about that and they'll give you the usual "they're saying that for political reasons, they don't really mean it, Christians are worse, they're pragmatic moderates who know they'll have to be inclusive to govern, yadda yadda yadda"

Oh, and shut up racist!

Posted by: kbdabear at July 12, 2013 10:59 AM (/9IC1)

202 Creepy and hilarious in equal measures. One of the best low budget movies in years- unlike fucking Sharknado the effects are great and every bit of money is on the screen. Posted by: Victimman, The Most Powerful Victim in the Universe! at July 12, 2013 02:54 PM (n50fF) I'm pretty sure every bit of the $17.89 they spent on Sharknado is on the screen.

Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 12, 2013 10:59 AM (VtjlW)

203

I wish my grandparents on my dad's side would have been more open to talking about their attitudes toward Germany before the war.  But, I guess, part of that was that I was too young to ask.

 

(They were so German, that most of the conversations in their house was spoken in German.)

 

 

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 10:59 AM (LSDvp)

204 toby928© seeks Kirk: Creator I suspect Nomad ran on Windows ME.

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 10:59 AM (mCNwt)

205 190 Considering the evidence against Zimmerman, is there any need for the jury to retire?

The evidence before the court is
Incontrovertible, there's no need for
The jury to retire.
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before
Of someone more deserving
Of the full penalty of law.
The way you've made them suffer,
Trayvon's father and his mother,
Fills me with the urge to defecate!


Posted by: Judge Nelson at July 12, 2013 11:00 AM (U82Km)

206 I'm pretty sure every bit of the $17.89 they spent on Sharknado is on the screen. That figure probably includes the catering bill.

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 11:00 AM (mCNwt)

207 I blogged about this, too. The article's author seems to be the most ignorant partisan alive. No mention of the Nazi-Soviet pact and how the Soviet agents in Hollywood worked to soft peddle Nazi antisemitism in film. Astounding. Then, at the end, Sarah Palin is the Hitler we should be watching today? Freaking amazing.

Posted by: Mr. Naron at July 12, 2013 11:00 AM (wft0D)

208

199Riddle me this, can anyone think of a Hollywood movie that treated Mexican gangs unsympathetically?

"The Revenant"

Totally awesome Zom-Com where soldier who returned undead from Iraq decides to use his zombie powers to fight crime.

Creepy and hilarious in equal measures. One of the best low budget movies in years- unlike fucking Sharknado the effects are great and every bit of money is on the screen.

You've sold me. I'm in.

Posted by: Future Buddha at July 12, 2013 11:01 AM (oDCMR)

209 Cindy ‏@_CindyK_ 19s Question: I'm in Chicago...where is the Courthouse? Near what major town or city? ------------- Umm, trick question?

Posted by: RWC at July 12, 2013 11:01 AM (fWAjv)

210

Anybody remember those awful Arab terrorists in "The Sum of All Fears"?

 

 

Worser was the terrorist  leader in True Lies.  Crimson Jihad!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 12, 2013 11:02 AM (BAS5M)

211 Leaving   Nantucket    today!    Been    a    great    ten    days!!

Posted by: John Kerry at July 12, 2013 11:03 AM (c4IyR)

212 Man. That new police chief in Sanford FLA is a clean and articulate black guy.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 12, 2013 11:03 AM (/djtm)

213 Who is Hitler? Did he work for Bush?

Posted by: LaQuisha Largess at July 12, 2013 11:03 AM (3lMGK)

214 Worser was the terrorist leader in True Lies. Crimson Jihad!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 12, 2013 03:02 PM (BAS5M)

 

Just like Blazing Saddles ,  they would not or could  not make the same film today.  

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 11:04 AM (m2CN7)

215 German cinema sucked under Hitler. All this bullshit about Frederick the Great got old. Soldiers and people want to forget the war and their problems - not the 24/7 propaganda. They want to see pretty scantily clad girls - not dancing bears, opera singers, and twirling plate.

Posted by: waldo at July 12, 2013 11:05 AM (cjFRv)

216 The Ballad of Sharknado *strumming guitar* Beware the dread Sharknado The tornado full of sharks It came from out the sea to eat All people light or dark One thousand pounds of sharky fury aflyin' toward your head Without a barstool to swing, little buckaroo, you're dead Shark! *bullwhip snap* Sharknado! *ocarina playing do-do-doodle-doooo* Shark! *bullwhip snap* Sharknado! *ocarina playing do-do-doodle-doooo* Sharknadooooooooooooo!

Posted by: Victimman, The Most Powerful Victim in the Universe! at July 12, 2013 11:06 AM (n50fF)

217 Wish I were a juror in the zim trial. Being a white female, I'd qualify, and it'd be at worst a hung jury, since I'd vote NG (maybe Totally Innocent) on all counts. Been on a hung jury before, so it wouldn't be new.

Posted by: Empire1 at July 12, 2013 11:06 AM (JnbTw)

218

Funniest scene in Sharknado:

Somebody calling Ian Zeiring  a "legendary surfer" right after we watch him flounder and spaz out in the ocean for 10 minutes.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2013 11:07 AM (wAQA5)

219 They want to see pretty scantily clad girls http://youtu.be/DJmFeJQ6nJs

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 11:07 AM (mCNwt)

220 The right wing of American politics loved Hitler until Pearl Harbor they liked his anti union anti socialist anti Jewish policies. In fact the anti Semitic and pro Nazi elements were able to pass the Production Code Administration that banned all anti Nazi films, such was the fear of COMMUNISM and Bolshevism. The Warner Brothers were strongly anti Nazi and from 1933 tried to prevent right wing America from aiding the rise of Hitler http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/warner-bros-fight-facism/

Posted by: occam at July 12, 2013 11:09 AM (4+lE0)

221 Camps?    What    camps?

Posted by: FDR at July 12, 2013 11:10 AM (c4IyR)

222 What's Ace doing?   Writing up his review of Sharknado?

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 11:11 AM (LSDvp)

223 Yeah,those "anti socialist" folks who called themselves national socilaists.

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 11:11 AM (9XBK2)

224 What's German for lightning ballwashing?

Posted by: Fritz at July 12, 2013 11:11 AM (UzPAd)

225 Franklin you're a real standup guy.

Posted by: eleven at July 12, 2013 11:12 AM (fsLdt)

226 223 What's Ace doing? Writing up his review of Sharknado? One word review: MOAR.

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 11:12 AM (mCNwt)

227 The Zimmerman protesters.... What do we want? NIKES When do we want them? AFTER THE VERDICT

Posted by: Navycopjoe at July 12, 2013 11:12 AM (oR0vZ)

228 I'm pretty sure every bit of the $17.89 they spent on Sharknado is on the screen. Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 12, 2013 02:59 PM (VtjlW) Wait? What! They went 50% over budget! Get me accounting now!!!

Posted by: SyFy Producer at July 12, 2013 11:12 AM (n50fF)

229 I watches this BBC mini series recently. It covered the 30s to the 60s. The bad guy turned out not to be a nazi but a commie. Highly unusual for the brits because they do love their commies.

Posted by: waldo at July 12, 2013 11:13 AM (cjFRv)

230 @212 Yet the comical, but strangely authentic, Crimson Jihad was the best Hollywood would do on that subject until Sleeper Cell on SHO over a decade later.

Posted by: Beagle at July 12, 2013 11:13 AM (sOtz/)

231 MOAR BOOZ

Posted by: 2 X 4 Movie Review at July 12, 2013 11:13 AM (codCi)

232 Sheriff speaks out. Says "sure, if you don't roll your window all the way down you are automatically a crime suspect. Don't you know that you stupid serf? tinyurl.com/mvalong

Posted by: UWP at July 12, 2013 11:14 AM (r98SZ)

233 They want to see pretty scantily clad girls - not dancing bears, opera singers, and twirling plate. What's so wrong about opera singers twirling plates?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2013 11:15 AM (hldu8)

234 Pixy Rainman is rockin and rollin again.

Posted by: eleven at July 12, 2013 11:15 AM (fsLdt)

235 221 They want to see pretty scantily clad girls http://youtu.be/DJmFeJQ6nJs Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 03:07 PM (mCNwt) Many of the dancers and actresses(ever see Garbo walk?) of that time, always have this masculine look. Anyway, I was mesmerized...

Posted by: waldo at July 12, 2013 11:16 AM (cjFRv)

236 45 minutes and no verdict makes SpongeBob worried.

Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget at July 12, 2013 11:16 AM (epxV4)

237 Yet the comical, but strangely authentic, Crimson Jihad was the best Hollywood would do on that subject until Sleeper Cell on SHO over a decade later. Posted by: Beagle at July 12, 2013 03:13 PM (sOtz/) 'The Siege' had Islamic terrorists.

Posted by: RWC at July 12, 2013 11:17 AM (fWAjv)

238 Vorsicht!  Kreuzen Sie nicht die Ströme! Insgesamt Protronic Umkehr!!

Posted by: Geistschlagen at July 12, 2013 11:18 AM (0It32)

239 There's no business like show(Nazi) business . Coming this Summer to theatre near you " Dude , where's my Tiger Tank ?"

Posted by: DrDrill at July 12, 2013 11:18 AM (sOFZs)

240 Government of the day demanded collaboration, just as today governments demand anti-Americanism from Hollywood.

Posted by: Howard Zinn at July 12, 2013 11:19 AM (mdhED)

241 What's German for lightning ballwashing? Blitz Golfball-Waschmaschine. Per Bing.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2013 11:19 AM (hldu8)

242 Never got Garbo.  What was the attraction?

Posted by: eleven at July 12, 2013 11:20 AM (fsLdt)

243 Well, we certainly don't do this sort of things these days. I mean the remake of Red Dawn had all those Chinese troops... Never mind.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 12, 2013 11:20 AM (659DL)

244 I hope some of the jurors are Gay, Lesbians or Transgender in order to make the jury valid and represented by all groups in America.

Posted by: LaQuisha Largess at July 12, 2013 11:20 AM (3lMGK)

245 George Von Trapp never put up with that shit.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at July 12, 2013 11:22 AM (XIxXP)

246 Twitchy reporting that a juror has tweeted a photo out from the deliberation room. tinyurl.com/twitchee

Posted by: UWP at July 12, 2013 11:23 AM (r98SZ)

247 RE: Sharknado

I suspect the "Tornado" angle of the script wasn't the original hook for the film.  It seemed like they originally wrote it as a general "Shark Storm" event with the Tornado emphasis added by the marketing team after the fact.  The actual Sharknado didn't occur until very late in the movie.

Also, I hope they make a "YetiQuake" movie.  The plot can involve a freak earthquake deep in the Himalayan mountains that causes the Yeti population to move to lower ground, pissed that their rest was disturbed and they proceed to terrorize the local villagers.

Posted by: Serious Cat at July 12, 2013 11:23 AM (UypUQ)

248 German cinema sucked under Hitler. Pretty much. Except for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Münchhausen_(film) which was a dream project of Goebbels. KINO did a restoration and put it out on DVD a few years ago. Surprisingly good.

Posted by: Victimman, The Most Powerful Victim in the Universe! at July 12, 2013 11:24 AM (n50fF)

249 George Von Trapp never put up with that shit. Neither did Lili von Schtupp.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2013 11:24 AM (hldu8)

250 Apparently Sharknado only pulled in a million viewers last night. Frankly the movie that followed, Two-Headed Shark, was a lot better. Carmen Electra and Brooke Hogan run rings around Tara Reid.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 12, 2013 11:26 AM (V1ZIU)

251 247 Twitchy reporting that a juror has tweeted a photo out from the deliberation room. tinyurl.com/twitchee I'm sure Judge Jabba won't let this interfere with the swift wheels of social justice.

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 11:27 AM (mCNwt)

252

>>>Never got Garbo. What was the attraction?

 

She put out.

Posted by: Bigby's First Stonecasting Hands at July 12, 2013 11:27 AM (3ZtZW)

253 Frankly the movie that followed, Two-Headed Shark, was a lot better. Carmen Electra and Brooke Hogan run rings around Tara Reid.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 12, 2013 03:26 PM (V1ZIU)

 

 

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I still think I'd rather watch "Home Alone II".  That McClusky  kid really cracks me up.

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 11:29 AM (LSDvp)

254 Camps? What camps?

Posted by: FDR at July 12, 2013 03:10 PM (c4IyR)

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Nothing to see here.  Move along.

 

 

Posted by: Earl Warren at July 12, 2013 11:30 AM (UWFpX)

255 OMG, as if his pedophilia isn't depraved enough, Harry Reid admits to eating shit: http://tinyurl.com/ndj5xlv

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at July 12, 2013 11:30 AM (KSjsb)

256

>>> Carmen Electra and Brooke Hogan run rings around Tara Reid.

 

Pics or it didn't happen

Posted by: Bigby's First Stonecasting Hands at July 12, 2013 11:30 AM (3ZtZW)

257

Apparently Sharknado only pulled in a million viewers last night.

 

But every single one was live-blogging it.

Posted by: eleven at July 12, 2013 11:30 AM (fsLdt)

258 ...and on it goes    http://tinyurl.com/ovm9q8o (AP)
Texas Senate convenes to debate abortion bill

Every person who enters the gallery will be issued a copy those rules, which stipulate there can be no demonstrations or attempts to disrupt the chamber's work. Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Rick DeLeon said Friday that no props — including speculums and coat hangers — will be allowed into the Senate gallery, per decorum rules.

...


"We will not give up the rights our mothers and grandmothers fought for." Lara said, a plastic speculum hanging from her neck.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at July 12, 2013 11:31 AM (0It32)

259 Apparently Sharknado only pulled in a million viewers last night.

Which can also be written as "25% more viewers than any episode of Girls."

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at July 12, 2013 11:31 AM (/kI1Q)

260 Never got Garbo. What was the attraction? She put out. That works.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2013 11:32 AM (hldu8)

261 45 minutes and no verdict makes SpongeBob worried.

Posted by: SpongeBob ReaverSaget at July 12, 2013 03:16 PM (epxV4)

 

I would bet on a hung jury or--at the very least--a very long deliberation. It only takes one intransigent juror. Remember: the prosecution enjoined them to ignore the evidence and vote with their emotions. The more level-headed jurors will spend the next several hours convincing the holdout(s) to go with what's been presented to them. I doubt they'll succeed. One cannot use reason against an emotional appeal except to say that how one feels about it is irrelevant to the facts.

Posted by: troyriser at July 12, 2013 11:32 AM (vtiE6)

262 Frankly the movie that followed, Two-Headed Shark, was a lot better. Carmen Electra and Brooke Hogan run rings around Tara Reid.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 12, 2013 03:26 PM (V1ZIU)

 

I liked the scene where the 2 gals are making out in the water with each other and some doofus and they all get eaten by the shark with two heads.  That's entertainment.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2013 11:32 AM (wAQA5)

263 If the jurors told the truth and know little of the case, then they may be unaware of all the death threats by the usual assholes and not realize that acquittal puts them, their families, and possibly their jobs in jeopardy.

Posted by: waldo at July 12, 2013 11:32 AM (cjFRv)

264 An hour into deliberations and the mounting continues.

Posted by: toby928© retweets at July 12, 2013 11:33 AM (codCi)

265 "We will not give up the rights our mothers and grandmothers fought for." Lara said, a plastic speculum hanging from her neck. File under "Must Have Fashion Accessories."

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 11:33 AM (mCNwt)

266 Then again, jurors lie all the fucking time...

Posted by: waldo at July 12, 2013 11:33 AM (cjFRv)

267

Apparently Sharknado only pulled in a million viewers last night.

 

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Then that correlates to the million people today aimlessly walking around saying, "Why?"

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 11:33 AM (LSDvp)

268 Money of Monies, its all about the Money.

Posted by: Barney at July 12, 2013 11:34 AM (rCS6C)

269 Apparently Sharknado only pulled in a million viewers last night. MSNBC in a fit of jealous rage.

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 11:34 AM (mCNwt)

270 Of course, Hollywood was filled with Progressives back then, and they liked and admired Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. It is no great shock to find out they worked with them, too.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie ® at July 12, 2013 11:34 AM (1hM1d)

271 I could have made a film in my office at lunch today on my I-phone that would have had better acting , script and special effect than did Sharknado.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 12, 2013 11:34 AM (eb70/)

272
Hell with the way the IRS, EPA and the FEC were acting, I can only imagine how far Hollywood is bending over for obama.  We see alot of it obviously, but I'm pretty sure there is some behind the scenes film and writing 'donations' going on.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 12, 2013 11:35 AM (4+FWp)

273 Sadly, I took a call and missed the last 15 minutes of Sharknado.  I understand it was must-see TV.

Posted by: toby928© retweets at July 12, 2013 11:35 AM (codCi)

274 "IBM and the Holocaust" is a good read.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at July 12, 2013 11:35 AM (4ghWI)

275 Need new thread.

Posted by: sweet...ish at July 12, 2013 11:36 AM (bj+Nc)

276 272 WATERCOOLER SHARK!!

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 11:36 AM (9XBK2)

277

We see alot of it obviously, but I'm pretty sure there is some behind the scenes film and writing 'donations' going on.

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Remember the actors and actresses who pledged themselves to Obama back in 2008?

 

Posted by: Earl Warren at July 12, 2013 11:36 AM (UWFpX)

278 Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at July 12, 2013 03:30 PM

OH, NO, Senator Hairy Reed!!

Posted by: Mr Hankey at July 12, 2013 11:36 AM (0It32)

279

254Frankly the movie that followed, Two-Headed Shark, was a lot better. Carmen Electra and Brooke Hogan run rings around Tara Reid.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 12, 2013 03:26 PM (V1ZIU)


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I still think I'd rather watch "Home Alone II". That McClusky kid really cracks me up.

__________

They should do a remake of Home Alone with Macaulay Culkin being stalked by Zombie Michael Jackson. Its guarenteed Christmas box office.

Posted by: Future Buddha at July 12, 2013 11:37 AM (oDCMR)

280 Although I hate today's Hollywood and all it stands for with the heat of a thousand suns, this strikes me as exaggerated.

For example, my wife and I were watching "Casablanca" the other day. With the exception of Bogart and a few of the principals (Bergman, Greenstreet, Rains), practically everyone in the cast was a European refugee, as was the director. The writers were Jewish, as were the producers. It was planned as an anti-Nazi film, and work was being done on it long before Pearl Harbor, yet somehow, I doubt if it met Himmler's canon of acceptability.

Or "To Be Or Not To Be", directed by a German Jewish refugee, which portrayed the Nazis as clowns. Or "The Great Dictator".

I'm sure there were plenty of Soroses among the Hollywood "elite"; but clearly, not all of them were that vile, not by a long shot.


Posted by: Brown Line at July 12, 2013 11:37 AM (VrNoa)

281 Hitler  had  many  parties  yet  only  one  ball.   I  did  'Touch  of   Evil'   so  why  not  'Sharknado' ?

Posted by: Marlene Dietrich at July 12, 2013 11:37 AM (c4IyR)

282 "We will not give up the rights our mothers and grandmothers fought for." Lara said, a plastic speculum hanging from her neck."

Jumping Jiminy, girl, a clean and safe abortion clinic does not stop you from killing a baby, it stops the money grubbing abortionist from killing you with sepsis or leaving you sterile, you sillyhead dope.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at July 12, 2013 11:38 AM (kXoT0)

283 I'm looking forward to the Lego animation remake of SHARKNADO!

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 11:38 AM (mCNwt)

284

For example, my wife and I were watching "Casablanca" the other day. With the exception of Bogart and a few of the principals (Bergman, Greenstreet, Rains), practically everyone in the cast was a European refugee, as was the director. The writers were Jewish, as were the producers. It was planned as an anti-Nazi film, and work was being done on it long before Pearl Harbor, yet somehow, I doubt if it met Himmler's canon of acceptability.

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But given some of the plot points (for instance, the occupation of France), the film was obviously started in earnest only after the war had started.  Germany's naked aggression no doubt helped curb some of the studio enthusiasm for the Nazis.

 

Posted by: junior at July 12, 2013 11:38 AM (UWFpX)

285
Sharknado pretty much sucked except for the last 15 minutes, which I hope somebody redoes in both anime and lego action figures.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 12, 2013 11:39 AM (4+FWp)

286 I always found Marlene Dietrich very attractive.

Posted by: eleven at July 12, 2013 11:39 AM (fsLdt)

287 >Need new thread.

Posted by: sweet...ish at July 12, 2013 03:36 PM (bj+Nc)



agreed- it should include motorcycles, dogs doing funny things, and pie

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 12, 2013 11:40 AM (8sCoq)

288 BREAKING Verdict in... Sharknado had a weak plot, bad acting and laughable CGI. In addition, it had a low viewership. A sequel is possible, but Tara Reid's people are reportedly saying she is "uninterested" or possibly "inebriated".

Posted by: AmishDude at July 12, 2013 11:40 AM (T0NGe)

289 287 Word is she was real easy.

Posted by: steevy at July 12, 2013 11:40 AM (9XBK2)

290

A sequel is possible, but Tara Reid's people are reportedly saying she is "uninterested" or possibly "inebriated".

 

She's retiring to spend more time with her liquor cabinet.

Posted by: eleven at July 12, 2013 11:42 AM (fsLdt)

291 "We will not give up the rights our mothers and grandmothers fought for." Lara said, a plastic speculum hanging from her neck. Damn shame their grandmothers didn't liberally excersize that right.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2013 11:42 AM (hldu8)

292 agreed- it should include motorcycles, dogs doing funny things, and pie Posted by: Jones in CO at July 12, 2013 03:40 PM (8sCoq) Yes, yes, and yes! "MotoDog VS Pienado" Coming Spring 2014

Posted by: SyFy Producer at July 12, 2013 11:42 AM (n50fF)

293 Need new thread. The peasants are revolting.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 12, 2013 11:43 AM (hldu8)

294  I'm looking forward to the Lego animation remake of SHARKNADO!

Posted by: George Orwell and the hair of the dog at July 12, 2013 03:38 PM (mCNwt)

 

 

---------------------------------------------

 

 

Hell, I'm still waiting for an  FNC report on last night's premier. 

 

Waiting.......waiting.

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 11:43 AM (LSDvp)

295 You hate the Jews, but you allow them to have an apartheid nation based on your ancient prophecy.

And stop telling us that you care about your children.  You don't, except as a means to murder what you believe to be "inferior" races.  You teach them to hate and fear their fellow man, and then send them off into the military to kill or die.  And you call that "love".

Enjoy your extinction, cousin humpers.

Posted by: WHOOPS at July 12, 2013 11:43 AM (ys7Bz)

296 Why, next you'll be telling me Dems work with Commies!

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 11:43 AM (2/T/u)

297 How much do you think Tara Reid made to say about 100 words?

Posted by: Adam at July 12, 2013 11:43 AM (Aif/5)

298 Based on the descriptions of this book currently available, there is a very high probability that it will be 320 pages of crap.

Posted by: RioBravo at July 12, 2013 11:44 AM (eEfYn)

299 Verdict Watch: Eric Holder is organizing his gang as I type.

Posted by: Craig Poe at July 12, 2013 11:44 AM (BVkEs)

300 Boring troll is boring.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at July 12, 2013 11:44 AM (/kI1Q)

301 Nothing stands between Hollywood and a buck, not even genocidal maniacs.

Posted by: madamex at July 12, 2013 11:45 AM (1zsKV)

302

Of the old starlettes in the 30's and  40's  the only one's I think would hold up today as sex symbols are Ingrid Bergman and Rita Hayworth. 

 

 

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 11:45 AM (m2CN7)

303 Whatevs, progtard. Dude, you are so boring. Bring your A game or go home.

Posted by: Victimman, The Most Powerful Victim in the Universe! at July 12, 2013 11:46 AM (n50fF)

304 Casablanca was released in January 1943 a year after the Soviet invasion and the U.S. being forced into the war.

Posted by: [/i]andycanuck[/b] at July 12, 2013 11:46 AM (Adm3q)

305 Enjoy your extinction, cousin humpers.

Posted by: WHOOPS at July 12, 2013 03:43 PM (ys7Bz)

 

 

Sup cousin? Be around later, if you know what I mean?

Posted by: Jollyroger at July 12, 2013 11:46 AM (t06LC)

306

WHOOPS at July 12, 2013 03:43 PM (ys7Bz)

 

Translation please.

Posted by: Ronster at July 12, 2013 11:46 AM (HPniQ)

307 COMMIENADO!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 12, 2013 11:46 AM (DuH+r)

308 296 Dupes,

Yeah...well except for every point in your post being incorrect you're doing great.

Keep trying to fuck that doorknob stud.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 12, 2013 11:47 AM (LRFds)

309 If I had a son he would look like WHOOPS

Posted by: Quasimodo at July 12, 2013 11:47 AM (V1ZIU)

310 Translation please.

Bathsalts are the bomb.

Posted by: toby928© retweets at July 12, 2013 11:47 AM (codCi)

311 I think ace started writing his Sharknado review about a third of the way into it. I think this will be his longest review yet.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 12, 2013 11:48 AM (4XER9)

312 The trolls don't even try anymore.  They're just phoning it in.



..on the internet..

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at July 12, 2013 11:48 AM (HWvU+)

313 Nice list of who the big money donors are in politics. Notice how the list is dominated by Democrat donors. http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at July 12, 2013 11:48 AM (ZPrif)

314 Boring troll is boring.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at July 12, 2013 03:44 PM (/kI1Q)

 

 

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BUT, it's still a troll.  (Nothing else going on around here.)

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 11:48 AM (LSDvp)

315
What was the name of the shotgun girl that came out the chainsaw sharkgina?

She might have a career.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 12, 2013 11:48 AM (4+FWp)

316
    Need a little Zyklon A in aisle 296.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 12, 2013 11:48 AM (SAMxH)

317 307 Ronster,

"derp you hate da Jews but you like Israel Derp you rut with cousings derp"

of course the Communards never get around to explaining the Kennedy klan's love of rutting with close cousins...

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 12, 2013 11:48 AM (LRFds)

318 All trolls are Average Joe.

Posted by: toby928© retweets at July 12, 2013 11:49 AM (codCi)

319 I always liked Veronica Lake.

Posted by: waldo at July 12, 2013 11:49 AM (cjFRv)

320 311 Toby 928th,

I need to work on Proghtard subdialects...

all I got was Marx is a helluva Drug Folks from it...

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 12, 2013 11:49 AM (LRFds)

321 As an alternative to anticipating this you can read "Hollywood and Hitler: 1933-1939" by Thomas Doherty available now.

Posted by: RioBravo at July 12, 2013 11:49 AM (eEfYn)

322

projection by trolls comes as easy to them as banning bibles does to  Muslim  nations.  

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 11:49 AM (m2CN7)

323

"We will not give up the rights our mothers and grandmothers fought for." Lara said, a plastic speculum hanging from her neck.


Damn shame their grandmothers didn't liberally excersize that right.

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Chelsea Clinton apparently agreed with you a few weeks ago.

 

Posted by: junior at July 12, 2013 11:49 AM (UWFpX)

324 Give WHOOPS a break. She worked a long time on that burn.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 12, 2013 11:49 AM (4XER9)

325

I think whoops  writes  Rachel  Maddow's  news copy.

 

From a box in the basement.

Posted by: eleven at July 12, 2013 11:50 AM (fsLdt)

326 BORENADO! Tornado sweeps thru Berkley picking up thousands of progtards, who proceed to bore everyone to death with their 1910's "new" progressive ideas. Yes, yes, and yes. This is happening. Coming july 2013

Posted by: SyFy Producer at July 12, 2013 11:50 AM (n50fF)

327 303


well, most would be in their 80s and 90s or dead, so yeah

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 12, 2013 11:51 AM (8sCoq)

328

@327

 

Its been done. Might as well name that any Obama speech. Just throw a few uhs in.

Posted by: Jollyroger at July 12, 2013 11:51 AM (t06LC)

329 Chelsea Clinton apparently agreed with you a few weeks ago.

Posted by: junior at July 12, 2013 03:49 PM (UWFpX)

 

 

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I think the troll IS  Chelsea Clinton.

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 11:51 AM (LSDvp)

330 I know that logic shit is hard but if we really wanted "inferior" races killed we'd be pro-abortion nazis screaming Hail Satan! because, you know, the majority of aborted babies aren't white.

Posted by: Adam at July 12, 2013 11:52 AM (Aif/5)

331 326 eleven,

I guess Maddow's little sister Chris Hayes was on a pretty wild tear last night....

if unfettered assloads of immigration are what is needed for America I wonder if Chris would let conservatives from EUrope just walk in?

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 12, 2013 11:52 AM (LRFds)

332 IIRC wasn't there an American captured fighting for the Germans in Band of Brothers? One of the members of 2-506 recognized him as a neighbor.

Posted by: Emile Antoon Khadaji at July 12, 2013 11:52 AM (KvKOu)

333

Barbara Stanwycke  in Double Indemnity and a thing she did with Henry Fonda

was  smokin  hot.

Posted by: eleven at July 12, 2013 11:52 AM (fsLdt)

334 Hollywood also collaborated with Stalin, and are currently collaborating with the statists who wish to undermine the very freedoms they claim to celebrate.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at July 12, 2013 11:53 AM (uhJo9)

335 Rush Limbaugh taking a call from someone who is convinced Jack The Ripper was actually Vincent van Gogh

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 12, 2013 11:53 AM (8sCoq)

336 Thanks sven, it makes some sense now. A little.

Posted by: Ronster at July 12, 2013 11:53 AM (HPniQ)

337 Going to go have my birthday...love each other fellow babies and this is my wish for all the Morons and Moronettes for the next year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=RV-Z1YwaOiw&feature=endscreen

Please watch it...I love all of you and truly wish this for you.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at July 12, 2013 11:54 AM (kXoT0)

338 I always thought Maureen O' Hara was gorgeous. I was so tickled to see a redhead as a movie star when I was a young girl. And OH the thrill when one of my little nephews was watching the original Parent Trap a few years back and piped up that I looked like her! Not remotely true, but bless his heart!

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 11:55 AM (2/T/u)

339 How much do you think Tara Reid made to say about 100 words?

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I'd say maybe a barrel, two gallons, and a half pint.

Posted by: WalrusRex at July 12, 2013 11:55 AM (Hx5uv)

340 Rush Limbaugh taking a call from someone who is convinced Jack The Ripper was actually Vincent van Gogh

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 12, 2013 03:53 PM (8sCoq)

 

 

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He's been inviting the LIV's to listen to him. 

 

This is who they are, Rush. 

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 11:56 AM (LSDvp)

341

IIRC wasn't there an American captured fighting for the Germans in Band of Brothers? One of the members of 2-506 recognized him as a neighbor.

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He didn't recognize him.  The guy asked him for a cigarette in perfect English.  iirc, the guy had come over to the States when he was young, and returned "home" to Germany when the war started (i.e. before the US got involved).  He ends up being one of the prisoners that Spiers may or may not have executed.

 

Posted by: junior at July 12, 2013 11:56 AM (UWFpX)

342 Rush Limbaugh taking a call from someone who is convinced Jack The Ripper was actually Vincent van Gogh

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 12, 2013 03:53 PM (8sCoq)

Patricia Cornwell spent $4,000,000 trying to prove it was a different painter, Walter Sickert.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at July 12, 2013 11:57 AM (kXoT0)

343 Well, it is open line Friday....

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 12, 2013 11:58 AM (l3vZN)

344
HB Sherry Mac

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 12, 2013 11:58 AM (4+FWp)

345 Posted by: WHOOPS at July 12, 2013 03:43 PM (ys7Bz)

You aren't making any sense.

First of all, Israel is not an "apartheid" state, since Arabs have full citizenship, and are in the Knesset.

Second, it is obvious that you are new around here, because the tone is about 99.9% pro-Israel. I really don't understand where you got that impression.

Third, there is a strong sensibility on AOSHQ that we are over-involved in the world, and that withdrawing our troops absent a strong and clear reason to be deployed is a rational policy. That certainly flies in the face of your comment.

The other stuff in your comment is just too stupid to respond to.


Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2013 11:58 AM (gqgiP)

346 Rush Limbaugh taking a call from someone who is convinced Jack The Ripper was actually Vincent van Gogh

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Well, those murders were before the Kennedy era.

Posted by: WalrusRex at July 12, 2013 11:58 AM (Hx5uv)

347 You cousinhumpers are so retarded. You should hump your nieces, nephews, and younger siblings like I do.

Posted by: WHOOPS at July 12, 2013 11:58 AM (8Ylyo)

348 Of the old starlettes in the 30's and 40's the only one's I think would hold up today as sex symbolsare Ingrid Bergman and Rita Hayworth.

Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 03:45 PM (m2CN7)

 

Hedy Lamarr would hold up well enough since she happened to be one of the most beautiful women who ever existed. It helps that she was also a mathematician and inventor whose work influenced the development of wifi, among other modern technological marvels. I'd send her a fan letter via Ouja board if I thought she was listening.

Posted by: troyriser at July 12, 2013 11:59 AM (vtiE6)

349 I remember that Band of Brothers scene.  I think the guy was from Oregon, but said he went to Germany to fight "for the fatherland."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 12, 2013 11:59 AM (DuH+r)

350

Abortion trolls babbling about extinction. That's rich.

Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at July 12, 2013 11:59 AM (YmPwQ)

351 The NSA isn't monitoring CNN's feed. Posted by: andycanuck at July 12, 2013 02:31 PM (Adm3q) Winner!

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 11:59 AM (2/T/u)

352 Forget it  CBD  it's Berkeley-town.

Posted by: eleven at July 12, 2013 12:00 PM (fsLdt)

353 Posted by: polynikes at July 12, 2013 03:45 PM (m2CN7)

Olivia De Havilland was pretty smokin' hot.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2013 12:01 PM (gqgiP)

354 @342 - you have it right. I still try to watch "Why We Fight" every few years.

Posted by: Emile Antoon Khadaji at July 12, 2013 12:01 PM (CrJzY)

355 You cousinhumpers are so retarded. You should hump your nieces, nephews, and younger siblings like I do.

Posted by: WHOOPS at July 12, 2013 03:58 PM (8Ylyo)

 

 

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I made a mistake.  The troll isn't Chelsea Clinton, it's Bill.

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 12:01 PM (LSDvp)

356 Jack the Ripper was an immortal evil gas cloud.

Posted by: Ster Trek Facts at July 12, 2013 12:01 PM (fsLdt)

357 Rush Limbaugh taking a call from someone who is convinced Jack The Ripper was actually Vincent van Gogh Posted by: Jones in CO at July 12, 2013 03:53 PM (8sCoq)

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 12:02 PM (2/T/u)

358 Nothing has changed. They still do this with China. The new Red Dawn come to mind. GI Joe. Etc.

Posted by: joe dagostino at July 12, 2013 12:03 PM (36L8y)

359 Lauren Bacall was sexy just lighting a cigarette

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sVmdQontEs4

Posted by: Jones in CO at July 12, 2013 12:03 PM (8sCoq)

360 Jumping Jiminy, girl, a clean and safe abortion clinic does not stop you from killing a baby, it stops the money grubbing abortionist from killing you with sepsis or leaving you sterile, you sillyhead dope. Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at July 12, 2013 03:38 PM (kXoT0) Now, now, now, you're just confusing the poor dear with facts and reason and logic.

Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 12, 2013 12:03 PM (VtjlW)

361 Posted by: eleven at July 12, 2013 04:00 PM (fsLdt)

And it ran away with its prehensile tail tucked between its legs.

Too bad...sometimes they are amusing to play with.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 12, 2013 12:04 PM (gqgiP)

362 European royalty perfected the art cousin humping over centuries, no? All that hemophilia as proof.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 12:06 PM (2/T/u)

363

So Jack the Ripper cut off VanGogh's ear.

 

Interesting.......

 

I guess that would mean Jack the Ripper  also killed VanGogh.

Posted by: eleven at July 12, 2013 12:06 PM (fsLdt)

364 My lord, Google Jack the Ripper and van Gogh. This is an actual Thing.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 12:06 PM (2/T/u)

365 Yes, I am sure everyone's surprised that Hollywood, bastion of liberalism, destructive democratic ideals and despotic proclivities, used its auspices to further the agenda of another true believer.

Just like Harvard and other major sectors who share these same fundamental, ignominious beliefs.

It's predictable.

Posted by: Marcus at July 12, 2013 12:08 PM (bfBgV)

366 Young Myrna Loy was teh hawt.

Posted by: Victimman, The Most Powerful Victim in the Universe! at July 12, 2013 12:08 PM (n50fF)

367 I think on   INTERNET,  everything is an actual thing.

Posted by: eleven at July 12, 2013 12:08 PM (fsLdt)

368 A rectangular bear after a coordinate transform. You're a filthy Jacobian aren't you.

Posted by: The Hobo Wears Prada (Snorenado!)) at July 12, 2013 12:09 PM (jopHG)

369 Anyone notice my cool hash?

Posted by: Joe "the schmo" Biden at July 12, 2013 12:09 PM (LSDvp)

370 True dat, eleven. I have to say I wasn't really impressed with the victim's-face-is-in-the-painting part of it. I couldn't even tell it was an iris, let alone a victim's face.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 12:10 PM (2/T/u)

371 Van Gogh jack the Ripper? Oh, please. One look at my painting and you know who the real jack the Ripper was.

Posted by: Jackson Pollock at July 12, 2013 12:11 PM (n50fF)

372 I am Jack.

Posted by: Spartacus at July 12, 2013 12:14 PM (codCi)

373 One look at my painting and you know who the real jack the Ripper was.

Posted by: Jackson Pollock at July 12, 2013 04:11 PM (n50fF)

 

 

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I think Ace is in his time machine (that he totally doesn't have) investigating this as we type.

Posted by: Soona at July 12, 2013 12:14 PM (LSDvp)

374 Just had to google  Jack The Ripper was actually Vincent van Gogh

Now I'm a believer. Not a trace of doubt in my mind.

Posted by: Craig Poe at July 12, 2013 12:19 PM (BVkEs)

375 Out: Hail Satan In: Impale with Tampax Yes, really. See the link thing

Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 12, 2013 12:22 PM (pLTLS)

376 It's not letting me post the link (damn it all to hell) but there's a pic of a 12 yr old (age not confirmed but she's young) holding a sign that says 'Jesus wasn't a dick; so keep him out of my vagina'.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at July 12, 2013 12:25 PM (pLTLS)

377 Pity we can't respond in kind with Gosnell's little trophy feet and such.

Posted by: Tammy sans Thor at July 12, 2013 12:29 PM (2/T/u)

378 Does Godwin's law still apply if mentioning Hitler and Nazis is the point of the original post?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 12, 2013 12:36 PM (9eDbm)

379 Hollywood jumps the shark! Too soon?

Posted by: Tara Reid at July 12, 2013 01:06 PM (+GpbP)

380 That's "Hedley"!

Posted by: hedley lamarr at July 12, 2013 01:14 PM (Adm3q)

381 Hollywood in the forties, before the enlightened people took it over used to be like talk-radio is now. Sort of like the Republican Party and the South. Say, there's a pitch.

Posted by: Aaron Sorkin at July 12, 2013 01:23 PM (jfUIE)

382 Remember that scene in "Casablanca" where the entire nightclub rises up to drown out the Germans' "Die Wacht Am Rhein" with the Marseillaise? The Germans were originally singing the Horst Wessel Song, but Warner's wouldn't have been able to remit royalties to the copyright holders in Germany. So they found a hundred-year-old song in the public domain and swapped it in. One version of the story says they never filmed Horst Wessel in the first place. Another says they did, and shot new closeups of the Nazis, while just dubbing the new song over the original wide shots of the whole club. If you look closely, there is something slightly off in the sync. In an anti-Nazi film at the height of World War II, the lawyers and accountants had the last word.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at July 12, 2013 01:56 PM (a5ljo)

383 "My guys are not schtupid. Dey always put der big Jews on mein schedule."

Posted by: Rich Fader at July 12, 2013 02:55 PM (WZR61)

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