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From: rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher)
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Subject: Re: Olympic Closing Ceremonies
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Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 15:33:15 EDT
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I got a kick out of the Emmy program the other night, when the producer of
the Olympics closing ceremony gave his Emmy acceptance speech.  He went on
about how he and the Hollywood TV/movie community had  achieved a
miraculous demonstration of the marvelous things that the human spirit 
can accomplish, etc., ad nauseum.  I'm sure that if asked, this guy would
equate the closing ceremony with the polio vaccine, the combined efforts
of the Red Cross, and any other high point of human achievement that
you could name.  I'm continually amazed at how seriously many people
in the entertainment business take their work.  Their pretentiousness
and self-importance are often astonishing, and they often appear to really
believe their own statements.  To hear this guy talk, it was like
the closing ceremony had somehow also cured cancer, when in reality, it's
already been almost completely forgotten.

Bob Schleicher
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(ps - I enjoyed the closing ceremony very much.  I just don't think
it was much more then a nice evening's entertainment.)