MG> Roger Nelson -> TOM WALKER wrote:
MG>TW>> Actualy it wil be HARD for modern movies to measure up and becoeme
MG> a
MG>TW>> "True" Classic.
 
MG>RN> To our age group, you're probably right.  The younger generation has
MG> a
MG>RN> different set of values.
 
MG>TW>> Cult Film, YES, but Classic, Not likely.
 
MG>RN> Is Xanadu (1980) a cult film?
 
MG> Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Plan 9 from Outer Space are cult
MG> movies. Xanadu was a puff piece glamorizing Olivia Newton John. None of
MG> the 3 of them are classics. Cleopatra (the silent version and the one
MG> starring Elizabeth Taylor) and The Wizard of Oz (the silent version and
MG> the one starring Judy Garland) are classics. Harvey is a classic.
 
LOL!  Harvey, to me, is a fantasy, just like some portions of Xanadu are.
Although the critics bombed Xanadu and it barely broke even at the box
office, it is a classic in my opinion and I still enjoy watching it.  Most
of the critics said that Xanadu was a career ender for Olivia and Gene
Kelly, but I totally disagree.  I think they (the critics) were just
jealous that at the age of 68, Kelly could still dance and roller skate and
Olivia was above that kind of criticism, as was Kelly.
 
 
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MG> "Anti-Zionism = Anti-Semitism"
MG> - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
MG> ". . . You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are
MG> merely 'anti-Zionist.' And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high
MG> mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green earth: When
MG> people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews--this is God's own truth.
MG> Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been
MG> and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full
MG> agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and
MG> ever will be so..."
 
MG> Golda Meir once said, "There will never be peace until the Palestinians
MG> love their children more than they hate us."
 
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