Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Disappearance of the Private-eye and detective film

From: Steve Novak (Cinefrog@comcast.net)
Date: 20 Mar 2009

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    Today was the first day of spring...a day to relax...Pi or not...

    Montois

    On 3/20/09 8:06 PM, "JIM DOHERTY" <jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:

    > T,
    >
    > When Montois said that what he was really interested was not who the actors
    > were who were elected to public office but rather:
    >
    > "... what are the institutional elements making this possible..."
    >
    > then when on to admit that this was:
    >
    > "In a certain way this is off topic so if it is too much (off topic) then
    > let's drop it..."
    >
    > You responded by saying
    >
    > "Let's... the question is not likely to have an easy answer, and it is totally
    > off-topic."
    >
    > I have no objection to dropping the subject, but if you're dropping it only
    > because you do't think the question has an easy answer, what am I here for but
    > to make that which you're all convinced is complicated simple to understand?
    >
    > Montois, the reason actors sometimes get elected to public office is because
    > more people vote for them than vote for the candidates who are running against
    > them.
    >
    > There. Now that I've explained it, you can go back to discussing why no one
    > makes PI movies anymore.
    >
    > JIM DOHERTY
    >
    >
    >

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