In other news, Alec Baldwin hasn’t killed anyone since “Rust”.
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I saw these comments under an article about Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein that I was looking at for God only knows what reason and they struck me as the only thing that interested me.
And as far as the prosthetic nose thing being offensive goes, only if people are loo0king to be offended. One of my favorite movie characters of all time was Anthony Quinn as Auda Abu Tayi in Lawrence of Arabia, to the point that I use “I am a river to my people” as my standard reply to family and friends thanking me for something.
Somewhere or other, I happened to watch a “making of” video (maybe on the DVD?) of “Lawrence of Arabia.”
It said that when Quinn stepped out of the makeup trailer for his first takes as Tayi, the assembled Arab extras started chanting “Auda, Auda, Auda.”
Just as Washington’s militia melted away and was reformed as he moved from state to state, because the United States were far from “united”, Lawrence’s Arab Revolt melted away as he moved from one tribe’s territory to another. In part because there were no “Arabs”, only members of different tribes who often owed blood feud and hated each other.
T.E. Lawrence : We do not work this thing for Feisal.
Auda abu Tayi : No? For the English, then?
T.E. Lawrence : For the Arabs.
Auda abu Tayi : The Arabs? The Howitat, Ajili, Rala, Beni Saha; these I know, I have even heard of the Harif, but the Arabs? What tribe is that?
The movie, and better yet Lawrence’s autobiography “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom” from which the movie was drawn, give a view of the start of the current Arab-Israeli conflict, and some insight on why the other Arab peoples want nothing to do with the Palestinians.
I read recently that pro-Palestinian protestors got into Alec Baldwin’s face with their cameras Monday in New York. Talk about failure to learn from history.