NEWS: Steven Spielberg Slowly Recognizes that China is Fucked

CELEB: Steven Spielberg Slowly Recognizes that China is Fucked

Way back in April of 2006, I posted about Steven Spielberg's hypocrisy in acting as artistic adviser to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Of course, I took the requisite SG-commenter punches for said "rant," but it seems that now, over a year later, Spielberg is maybe—just maybe—starting to get it.

This past March, Mia Farrow straight up compared Spielberg to Nazi director Leni Riefenstahl (yes, yes: she Godwinned him, and in a Wall Street Journal editorial, no less), asking "Does Mr. Spielberg really want to go down in history as the Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games?"

Beyond that, Spielberg has kept a low profile regarding the impending games, but apparently he has been "engaged in a little bit of a back-and-forth private dialogue" with the Chinese government.

Celebractivists George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and Jerry Weintraub have held China publicly responsible for the continuing genocide, raising funds to start an organization called Not on Our Watch, and going so far as to meet with Chinese authorities to discuss a shift in Chinese policy on Darfur.

Experts warn that they shouldn't get their hopes up.

And so we wait, Godwinned and Goddamned alike, to see what both China and Spielberg will choose.

Seems we like to forget about Tibet...

when i was there last year there was a(nother) shooting at the tibettan border, the cnn coverage was pulled - so i started hitting the t.v. - not thinking for one stupid drummer minute that the censors had just turned it off! The next day i was in the studio with some amazing tibettan singers, no-one else in the studio knew anything about what was hapening - we just made music. I pretended i needed to count time for them so i could stand about a foot away.

Anyway, that reminds me, we dont have to worry abut the olympics because none of the athletes are going to be able to breathe long enough to hail a taxi outside the airport. Think L.A in the 80's - the cell phones are smaller now - but the smog remains the same.

MarrteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeN

Also worth noting, China pretty much has the United States by the balls. They own all our debt and we are addicted to the stream of cheap products, so we don't care that they support genocide to quench their taste for oil, are the number one CO2 producer, put out dangerous products, pirate our intellectual property, etc.

Actually, there's strong evidence that a signifigant portion of LA's pollution comes from China, actually.

I always love it when people compare the director of Schindler's List to a Nazi.

I wonder if Steven has learned to spit yet ?

That was a required survival technique when I was there in the late 1980's

Trackside spitoons ? All with beautiful carving, of course.

Ah well... What can you say?

Pussies can still be bad ass directors.

Coming next week: Steven Spielberg has second thoughts about that holiday villa in Burma.

it's pretty damned poetic really.

I guess there is a Celebractivists group on the set of Oceans N who knew?

You might need a spitoon if you are going to incorporate "celebractivist" into your vocabulary. That can be a juicy word!

Now we have four fucking spaces between paragraphs even in quotes. Sometimes we need to just admit to ourselves that some articles just aren't as long as others.

That made some sort of sense. In a xenophobic, whiny fashion.

That didn't. Link, please.
I mean, are you seriously suggesting that LA just happens to be the place where all China's transpacific pollution ends up?
I'm much happier with the idea that it might be to do with industry and far too many cars.

So yeah; source, please.