Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you B.D. - getting things to come out right in a language that is not your own is a bit tricky - I am always afraid to unintentionally p... someone off - By the way I think you are right about the movie - it is one of the few movies from the seventies that have my full concentration when I watch it - best Ruben ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Deep Throat and B.D. > You have said it far more thoughtfully and eloquently than I, Ruben . > ATPM, by the way, is undoubtedly the best journalism "procedural" ever > made. > > > On 6/1/05 1:03 AM, "Ruben" <ruben@rhodos.dk> wrote: > >> Marc >> >> I am 42 and I find it very interesting - my daughters are 13 and 16 - >> they >> saw the movie with redford/hoffman 3 month ago - there were recently >> other >> speculations on who deep throat was - I am sure my daughters will find it >> interresting to! >> >> It must be an impportant task for teachers as well as parrents in the US >> to >> tell their children about watergate and the "deep throat comming in" is a >> good oppertunity. >> >> If we do not pass on to the new generations the knowledge of our mistakes >> and of others crime or cruelty it is easy forgotten and that could be >> fatal. >> >> Five years ago 50% of swedish High School pubils did not believe in that >> Holocaust had ever found place. My childrens friends go for one day >> shopping >> trips to Berlin not knowing of the horrors the people of eastern Germany >> was >> put through. My grandmother was German and some of my family was caught >> on >> the wrong side of the wall - I remember her crying when she got letters >> were >> most we "sensored" out - she and most her family passed away befor the >> wall >> fell. >> >> We have obligations and can not keep information to us self just because >> we >> are political junkies! >> >> This is in no way a critique of your post Marc - just remark on what I >> find >> an important task for all of us. >> >> all the best >> Ruben >> >> snip >>> I acknowledge that the revelation of the real persona of DEEP THROAT is >>> most interesting to historians and political junkies such as me and thee >>> but I also recognize that it is of little interest to the general >>> public. >>> >>> Marc >>> >>> >>> msmall@aya.yale.edu >>> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! >>> >>> NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information