Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxk.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihuxk!rs55611 From: rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher) Newsgroups: net.sport Subject: Re: Olympic Closing Ceremonies Message-ID: <764@ihuxk.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 15:33:15 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxk.764 Posted: Fri Sep 28 15:33:15 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 09:06:17 EDT References: <140@hocsj.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 19 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 ihuxk!rs55611 (ps - I enjoyed the closing ceremony very much. I just don't think it was much more then a nice evening's entertainment.)