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Saturday, January 05, 2002
Friday January 4 2:14 PM ET
Vivendi's Chairman Defends Remarks
By ANGELA DOLAND, Associated Press Writer
PARIS (AP) - The plot is classic: Hollywood blockbusters vs. French cinema. The star is Jean-Marie Messier, chairman of a major media company, Vivendi Universal.
After scandalizing his fellow French with what was widely interpreted as an attack on France's system of financing the national movie industry, Messier defended himself in a newspaper commentary Friday, saying his words were ``maliciously'' taken out of context.
``Are there grounds for accusing me of pro-globalization arrogance, of attacking national sovereignty? No,'' Messier wrote in an opinion piece that Le Figaro newspaper published on its front page.
Paris-based Vivendi Universal owns Hollywood's Universal Studios, whose recent hits include ``The Mummy Returns'' and ``American Pie 2.'' It also controls Canal Plus, the pay television channel that is a pillar of support to French film, handing over 20 percent of its sales to the cause. However, the accords binding Canal Plus to France's film industry expire in 2004, and its future participation is unclear.
The controversy started in December, with Messier's comment: ``The French cultural exception is dead.''
He was alluding partly to France's policy of subsidizing movies and requiring Canal Plus to help out - a practice ensuring that big American blockbusters, enormously popular in France, won't crush nationally made films.
The brief comment was highly publicized and France's film industry interpreted it as a direct threat. Most national newspapers and magazines devoted articles to his remark, with Le Monde proclaiming, ``Jean-Marie Messier has everyone against him, in parties both right and left.''
Cabinet ministers gave interviews to reassure people that preserving French culture was still a priority. Education Minister Jack Lang told the Le Monde newspaper: ``We must not give in to any private groups, Vivendi Universal or others.'' Bruno Megret, a far-right politician, accused Messier of ``betraying his country.''
Messier's comment seemed especially ill-timed as 2001 was a banner year for French film. Four home-grown movies occupied the top five places at the French box office, and several, such as ``Amelie'' and ``The Closet,'' were successful abroad.
In Le Figaro, Messier wrote that journalists had misinterpreted him. He said he had followed up the comment by saying it was time to look beyond French interests to a broader goal: cultural diversity.
Messier said he favored support mechanisms for French cinema but that they needed to be adapted to fit a changing industry. He also said he was ready for ``constructive'' talks with regulators.
``If we want to respect the interests of our shareholders - 80 percent of whom are European, with over a million individual French shareholders - we also intend to honor our commitments toward cultural diversity - which is not limited to French diversity,'' Messier wrote.
Vivendi's Chairman Defends Remarks
By ANGELA DOLAND, Associated Press Writer
PARIS (AP) - The plot is classic: Hollywood blockbusters vs. French cinema. The star is Jean-Marie Messier, chairman of a major media company, Vivendi Universal.
After scandalizing his fellow French with what was widely interpreted as an attack on France's system of financing the national movie industry, Messier defended himself in a newspaper commentary Friday, saying his words were ``maliciously'' taken out of context.
``Are there grounds for accusing me of pro-globalization arrogance, of attacking national sovereignty? No,'' Messier wrote in an opinion piece that Le Figaro newspaper published on its front page.
Paris-based Vivendi Universal owns Hollywood's Universal Studios, whose recent hits include ``The Mummy Returns'' and ``American Pie 2.'' It also controls Canal Plus, the pay television channel that is a pillar of support to French film, handing over 20 percent of its sales to the cause. However, the accords binding Canal Plus to France's film industry expire in 2004, and its future participation is unclear.
The controversy started in December, with Messier's comment: ``The French cultural exception is dead.''
He was alluding partly to France's policy of subsidizing movies and requiring Canal Plus to help out - a practice ensuring that big American blockbusters, enormously popular in France, won't crush nationally made films.
The brief comment was highly publicized and France's film industry interpreted it as a direct threat. Most national newspapers and magazines devoted articles to his remark, with Le Monde proclaiming, ``Jean-Marie Messier has everyone against him, in parties both right and left.''
Cabinet ministers gave interviews to reassure people that preserving French culture was still a priority. Education Minister Jack Lang told the Le Monde newspaper: ``We must not give in to any private groups, Vivendi Universal or others.'' Bruno Megret, a far-right politician, accused Messier of ``betraying his country.''
Messier's comment seemed especially ill-timed as 2001 was a banner year for French film. Four home-grown movies occupied the top five places at the French box office, and several, such as ``Amelie'' and ``The Closet,'' were successful abroad.
In Le Figaro, Messier wrote that journalists had misinterpreted him. He said he had followed up the comment by saying it was time to look beyond French interests to a broader goal: cultural diversity.
Messier said he favored support mechanisms for French cinema but that they needed to be adapted to fit a changing industry. He also said he was ready for ``constructive'' talks with regulators.
``If we want to respect the interests of our shareholders - 80 percent of whom are European, with over a million individual French shareholders - we also intend to honor our commitments toward cultural diversity - which is not limited to French diversity,'' Messier wrote.
http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/education/exhibitionrelated_fall01.htm#grafton
Tuesday, Jan 8, 2002
7 pm
Video Presentation and Talk
Anthony Grafton
"The Magical Library: Magic, Scholarship, and Collecting in Renaissance Europe"
The libraries of Renaissance Europe were filled to bursting not only with the
respectable classics of Greece and Rome and the works of contemporary writers
like Petrarch and Erasmus, but also with many darker and more dangerous books:
works by and about magicians, supposedly written everywhere from ancient Egypt,
Persia, and Israel to modern Italy and Germany, and apparently offering
instructions on ways of calling spirits, raising the dead, making terrifying
weapons, and crafting powerful machines. This lecture will reveal how scholars,
librarians, and ordinary readers tried first to evaluate and then to direct this
overwhelming flood of mysterious and challenging lore.
Anthony Grafton's publications include: Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History
of Classical Scholarship, vol 2: Historical Chronology, The Footnote: A Curious
History, and most recently, Leon Battista Alberti.
Free admission to all programs held at the Museum. Seating is on a first-come,
first-served basis.
For more information please contact us by email or phone:
hammerinfo@arts.ucla.edu; 310.443.7000
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2.
http://www.getty.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/displaycalendar.pl?event_type=type_lecture
01/08/02
4 pm
The Cosmos in a Cottage: The Library and Laboratory of Dr. John Dee
Benjamin Woolley, author of The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of John
Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, describes the home and library of John Dee,
doctor of magic, who amassed one of the largest collections of curiosities in
the late 1500s. Complements the Devices of Wonder exhibition. Harold M. Williams
Auditorium.
Make a reservation for this event
Tuesday, Jan 8, 2002
7 pm
Video Presentation and Talk
Anthony Grafton
"The Magical Library: Magic, Scholarship, and Collecting in Renaissance Europe"
The libraries of Renaissance Europe were filled to bursting not only with the
respectable classics of Greece and Rome and the works of contemporary writers
like Petrarch and Erasmus, but also with many darker and more dangerous books:
works by and about magicians, supposedly written everywhere from ancient Egypt,
Persia, and Israel to modern Italy and Germany, and apparently offering
instructions on ways of calling spirits, raising the dead, making terrifying
weapons, and crafting powerful machines. This lecture will reveal how scholars,
librarians, and ordinary readers tried first to evaluate and then to direct this
overwhelming flood of mysterious and challenging lore.
Anthony Grafton's publications include: Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History
of Classical Scholarship, vol 2: Historical Chronology, The Footnote: A Curious
History, and most recently, Leon Battista Alberti.
Free admission to all programs held at the Museum. Seating is on a first-come,
first-served basis.
For more information please contact us by email or phone:
hammerinfo@arts.ucla.edu; 310.443.7000
==
2.
http://www.getty.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/displaycalendar.pl?event_type=type_lecture
01/08/02
4 pm
The Cosmos in a Cottage: The Library and Laboratory of Dr. John Dee
Benjamin Woolley, author of The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of John
Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, describes the home and library of John Dee,
doctor of magic, who amassed one of the largest collections of curiosities in
the late 1500s. Complements the Devices of Wonder exhibition. Harold M. Williams
Auditorium.
Make a reservation for this event
Friday, January 04, 2002
Wednesday, January 02, 2002
From Hadrian at Cinefile Video:
on 1/1/02 3:29 PM, Steve Knezevich wrote:
> can you please recap all the films with the DVD descriptive service?
>
> steve k
>
I only know 3 (and that might be all there is):
The Grinch
Terminator 2
Basic Instinct
For Basic Instinct you get a female narrator, and descriptions of Michael
Douglas naked. But still Terminator 2 was the most consistently
entertaining. The best thing on any of the is the description of the Carolco
logo, which almost leaps into poetry...
Now
A flash of light
draws
Concentric Letter c's
a word appears below
Carolco
that's from memory, i think the original was better, but i'm to lazy to
check my sources.
on 1/1/02 3:29 PM, Steve Knezevich wrote:
> can you please recap all the films with the DVD descriptive service?
>
> steve k
>
I only know 3 (and that might be all there is):
The Grinch
Terminator 2
Basic Instinct
For Basic Instinct you get a female narrator, and descriptions of Michael
Douglas naked. But still Terminator 2 was the most consistently
entertaining. The best thing on any of the is the description of the Carolco
logo, which almost leaps into poetry...
Now
A flash of light
draws
Concentric Letter c's
a word appears below
Carolco
that's from memory, i think the original was better, but i'm to lazy to
check my sources.
Tuesday, January 01, 2002
Phantom poetry from Bay Ridge...
e-mail the author here...
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might is always right ?
in the eyes of a young italian girls i see the desire for might
in the blackened hearts of young fascists i see this trust in might
might !
the temporary solution for the ever lasting problem
life .
answers right and wrong
might stands out to me
might makes me uncomfortable
might in the eyes and hearts of white power skinheads
might in the eyes and minds of black emcees
might in the eyes and actions of italian mobsters and wannabee mobsters
might in the hearts of men
might in the frat house might on the campus
might in the work place
might in the dancehall
might in the ever so struglling nyc actress
might in the intellectual sara laurence womens liberationist speaker
might in numbers
might in minds
might all over the world
the rejection of love
the fear of compassion cause of might
your long lived trust in might because of the temporary results its shown you
in this life
the examples set by your elders your peirs you country your government your
history
your family background your race your roots
your roots in everything but the land is might
the flower that grows in your back yard
did might grow that flower?
are its roots rooted in might
is the struggle of the ants and worms in the soil that it grows a struggle of
might ?
balance is a funny thing in the face of unbalanced might
when you see faces of young racists
when you see eyes of gang members
when you hear the crys of victims
when you see world suffering
might does not always seem so right
e-mail the author here...
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might is always right ?
in the eyes of a young italian girls i see the desire for might
in the blackened hearts of young fascists i see this trust in might
might !
the temporary solution for the ever lasting problem
life .
answers right and wrong
might stands out to me
might makes me uncomfortable
might in the eyes and hearts of white power skinheads
might in the eyes and minds of black emcees
might in the eyes and actions of italian mobsters and wannabee mobsters
might in the hearts of men
might in the frat house might on the campus
might in the work place
might in the dancehall
might in the ever so struglling nyc actress
might in the intellectual sara laurence womens liberationist speaker
might in numbers
might in minds
might all over the world
the rejection of love
the fear of compassion cause of might
your long lived trust in might because of the temporary results its shown you
in this life
the examples set by your elders your peirs you country your government your
history
your family background your race your roots
your roots in everything but the land is might
the flower that grows in your back yard
did might grow that flower?
are its roots rooted in might
is the struggle of the ants and worms in the soil that it grows a struggle of
might ?
balance is a funny thing in the face of unbalanced might
when you see faces of young racists
when you see eyes of gang members
when you hear the crys of victims
when you see world suffering
might does not always seem so right
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