Camelots of love
In the lukewarm of the night appears Norman Jewison, ready to air-kiss a Kennedy.
“I was inspired by your father, and now we are all inspired by you,” says he to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The latter is standing on a staircase, the director sounds like a romantic lead and the whole thing twinkles and seems right out of a ? Norman Jewison film!
The scene unravelled last week at the celebrated Budman residence, in the quieter reaches above Eglinton. The younger Kennedy, in town then for the Green Living Show, was the man of the party. Burning almost the same fire as his dad — the ambient, cut-short hope of liberals everywhere — this RFK arrived, as he often does, in a Camelot-evoking skinny tie. Indeed, as the famous enviro-booster, known for taking on fat cats, said last year to New York mag, “I like to wear thin ties” and “I’m very happy to see that they’re finally coming into style ?”
But back to Jewison, who elicited applause that was anything but thin when he flattered the younggen Kennedy just so. In the process, he stitched together a nice bit of symmetry. As the Canadian director noted to moi that night, the elder Kennedy had been a huge supporter — a fan, in particular, of his seminal, race relations-stirring 1967 movie, In the Heat of the Night, starring Sidney Poitier.
Actually, looking it up later, I learned that when the New York Film Critics gave Jewison the best picture award for that flick, the ceremony was held at Sardi’s –and there to present him with it was none other than Senator Robert Kennedy, from New York. As he presented it to the young lensman, he apparently whispered, “See, I told you the timing was right, Norman.”
Fast-forward to Toronto, 2008, when the timing was right for a party baked in nostalgia. Don’tcha just love a dinner that comes with institutional memory? Those salonistas — Michael Budman and Diane Bald — really do think of everything.
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May 3rd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
1) No.2) It is not a socialist program even if it was put in place by a quasi-socialist party. It is a social program. From what I gathered from the article, the organisation is flawed, and not its concept.
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Firstly I admitted my mistake about calling Child Protective Services non-socialist in my previous post. It is a socialist organisation. Secondly, The Labour Party is a socialist organisation only by name and does not uphold many fundemental Socialist values, like government controlled ‘corporations’. In socialism all such entities are public, not private. The UK has one of the strongest currency systems and a large number of uneven wealth distribution. Not socialism. Sweden on the other hand is much more socialist than Great Britain. I do admit that Great Britain is in part socialist, but is also in part a controlling society, which is a counter to the end goal of socialism: a self-sufficient government and economic system that has no traditional government or economic system. (Bad wording, falling asleep.)Also: Socialism retards the freedoms and well-being of humans whenever it is applied needlessly.No, that is called a controlling government, and is against fundemental socialism.Oh, and I was top in my 6th grade class in SS.I guess what I am trying to say is that Great Britain has elements of socialism, more so than America (which is where I guess you are from considering you speak of Socail Studies and write ‘Organization’ with a ‘z’), but much less than an ideal Socialist state.If Great Britain is a socialist state, then your Paris Hilton is the most famous person in the world. (She is kind of famous though, just like Great Britain has elements of socialism.)I have my opinions and I do get to define words as how I want to use then. Language is based on sharing common infornation, and ‘common information’ is different in every culture and or every person. It is also perceived by that person differently. I suggest you take a course in philosophy, seeing as now you failed out of college (a generalisation that I am making, just like the one you made about me. I in no way think that it is true.)I apologise in advance for any incoherent sentences or spelling mistakes…(I can not think straight, going to sleep…)
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I do not think that socialism is a dirty word. I am a socialist, and the way that Great Britain is right now, it is hardly socialist.I was not thinking straight when I wrote the other post, and I admit that I was mistaken about it “not being socialist”. But considering all of that, you do not have to down-play my intelligence in order to prove your point.
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:03 pm
NOTE: I am literally dieing, and may say some-thing stupid in this post, but since I only (for the most part) have one argument, I think I did not.I stated: I do admit that Great Britain is in part socialist The majority of fundamental services & utilities in Britain ARE public.So are they in almost every other country. That’s socialism. If you think it isn’t, you’re deluding yourself.Again reffer to: I do admit that Great Britain is in part socialistChina is even less socialist than GB.I never said that socialism and capitalism can not co-exist, I even brought in SWEDEN as an example. News-flash: sweden has elements of BOTH! Where you are deluding yourself is in the idea that the current British government model is anything but a socialist one. Is it an extreme form of socialism? By no means. But it is socialist.Again: I do admit that Great Britain is in part socialist And by the way, language isn’t the topic of philosophy but rather philology: semanticism is not a branch of philosophy, but rather anthropology.Indeed you are correct, by brain is deceiving me. Then you’re a fliggenhugen.I take offense to that. Doesn’t mean you don’t need to go back to it. You’ve obviously forgotten your lessons.I can learn more from the Inter-net in a day that I could learn in school in a month. (Wikipedia is included, but I trust other sources more than it.) You’re deluding yourself if you think there’s a difference.Read some literature on Communism/Socialism (virtually the same end-goal and them, in fact, some may say that they are the same ideal and that only the tag is different.)I think that a Socialist state IN THEORY is possible with-out a freedom restricting and controlling government.
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:54 pm
In a world in wich good games with good plots and well developed chatacters are more and more dificult to find, as they’re drowned by tons of trash, a decently mature gamer shares his very personal point of view.
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Love the Daily Mail. Love batshit-insane right wing propaganda.Move on, nothing to see here.