Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You do not want to get me started about the IOC, nasty, filthy old men, lechers, and corruption. I had an opportunity to see up close an personnel with these farts starting at the top and have nothing good to say about any of them. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Kit McChesney | Vuelux Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:52 AM To: 'Leica Users Group' Subject: RE: [Leica] Re Riefenstahl Not only being corrupted, but corrupting! :) Kit -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+kitmc=vuelux.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+kitmc=vuelux.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:49 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Re Riefenstahl If that is true, then we have yet another reason to disband the IOC--a group of mostly old and rich men, who travel around the world being corrupted by city officials of prospective host cities. Nathan Emanuel Lowi wrote: > I realize I'm flogging a dead horse here but... > > Riefenstahl's "Olympiad" was not made for the Nazis. > > The film was commissioned and paid for by the > International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was, in > fact, the official IOC documentary of the 1936 games. > > The IOC still stands behind the film today. > > The film is about sport. One has to be mighty > imaginative to discern political content in it. > Hitler appears briefly in the film, but the film is > not a glorification of Naziism. > > Emanuel Lowi > Montreal > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information