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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!olivea!apple!mattm
  2. From: mattm@Apple.COM (Matthew Melmon)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
  4. Subject: Re: The Player (was Re: Academy Awards)
  5. Message-ID: <76029@apple.apple.COM>
  6. Date: 31 Dec 92 22:40:09 GMT
  7. References: <3921@mdavcr.mda.ca> <rdippold.725615202@cancun>     <1hqbheINN15b@early-bird.think.com> <C04Mv7.8GK@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil>     <31DEC199210214769@utkvx1.utk.edu> <ISBELL.92Dec31125659@pop-tarts.ai.mit.edu>
  8. Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
  9. Lines: 11
  10.  
  11. isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell) writes:
  12.  
  13. >Personally I loved it.  I don't think it has a chance come Oscar time,
  14. >but then, so what?
  15.  
  16. Indeed, so what.  The Oscars are absurd.  Best Picture of the Year!
  17. TaDah!  It is ridiculous to reduce all of the films released for
  18. a year to One Best Picture.
  19.  
  20. But, that's the way it goes.  Glittering prizes and endless 
  21. compromises.
  22.