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3/2/2008, 11:24 PM
One of the main reasons is they tend to nominate movies I haven't seen and have no interest in. Another reason is this:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/03/02/2008-03-02_oscar_winner_marion_cotillard_dismisses_.html
Oscar winner Marion Cotillard raised eyebrows around the world Saturday when it emerged that she doubted the official account of the 9/11 attacks.
"I think we're lied to about a number of things," Cotillard said during an interview with a French television program, singling out the World Trade Center attacks as an example of conspiracy by the United States government for political ends.
"We see other towers of the same kind hit by planes. Are they burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, that burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed."
The 32-year-old French actress jeopardized the good will created by her Oscar win by suggesting that the towers, planned in the early 1960s, were an outdated "money sucker" that would have cost more to update than to destroy.
"It was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-date all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, than destroying them," she said.
Cotillard also weighed in on the 1969 moon landings, saying, "Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don't believe all they tell me, that's for sure."
Cotillard, who won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of singer Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose," made the comments a year ago during an interview with the French program "Paris Premiere - Paris Derniere." Largely ignored at the time -- when she was a virtual unknown in the U.S. -- a transcript of the interview resurfaced Saturday on the French magazine Web site Marianne2.
Her comments are brought to worldwide attention at a time when Cotillard seems poised to become a much larger player in Hollywood. Her next project, due to start filming soon, is the film "Public Enemies" with Johnny Depp.
Cotillard's film career began in Luc Besson's 1998 film "Taxi," and she has slowly become a household name in France. The actress has also distinguished herself as an environmental activist and spokesperson for Greenpeace.
I think the thing that offends me most about this is the implication that the US Government felt like the WTC was costing more to maintain than to just build a new one from scratch so we orchestrated this terrorist attack of flying jetliners into the WTC thus killing thousands - just to save a buck. Why our government would care how much the WTC cost to maintain is something I'd like to ask her since it wasn't a government building.
This woman is a complete wack-job. And yet she has a platform to say all this nonsense just because she's pretty and can recite lines other people wrote.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/03/02/2008-03-02_oscar_winner_marion_cotillard_dismisses_.html
Oscar winner Marion Cotillard raised eyebrows around the world Saturday when it emerged that she doubted the official account of the 9/11 attacks.
"I think we're lied to about a number of things," Cotillard said during an interview with a French television program, singling out the World Trade Center attacks as an example of conspiracy by the United States government for political ends.
"We see other towers of the same kind hit by planes. Are they burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, that burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed."
The 32-year-old French actress jeopardized the good will created by her Oscar win by suggesting that the towers, planned in the early 1960s, were an outdated "money sucker" that would have cost more to update than to destroy.
"It was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-date all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, than destroying them," she said.
Cotillard also weighed in on the 1969 moon landings, saying, "Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don't believe all they tell me, that's for sure."
Cotillard, who won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of singer Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose," made the comments a year ago during an interview with the French program "Paris Premiere - Paris Derniere." Largely ignored at the time -- when she was a virtual unknown in the U.S. -- a transcript of the interview resurfaced Saturday on the French magazine Web site Marianne2.
Her comments are brought to worldwide attention at a time when Cotillard seems poised to become a much larger player in Hollywood. Her next project, due to start filming soon, is the film "Public Enemies" with Johnny Depp.
Cotillard's film career began in Luc Besson's 1998 film "Taxi," and she has slowly become a household name in France. The actress has also distinguished herself as an environmental activist and spokesperson for Greenpeace.
I think the thing that offends me most about this is the implication that the US Government felt like the WTC was costing more to maintain than to just build a new one from scratch so we orchestrated this terrorist attack of flying jetliners into the WTC thus killing thousands - just to save a buck. Why our government would care how much the WTC cost to maintain is something I'd like to ask her since it wasn't a government building.
This woman is a complete wack-job. And yet she has a platform to say all this nonsense just because she's pretty and can recite lines other people wrote.