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Sunday, July 29, 2012

THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN (1992) AA

The movie describes a total corrupt congress on the take from big business.

I borrowed this DVD from Nexflix after I saw Marty Kaplan (the producer of the movie) on the Bill Moyers Show in 2012. He believes NOTHING has changed in America since the movie was produced in 1992.

Kaplan is the Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the founding director of the Norman Lear Center for the study of the impact of entertainment on society.

Along these lines, The TV show 60 MINUTES just showed a convicted lobbyist, by the name of Abramoff tell viewers that he "owned "at least over 100 congressmen until he went to jail.

From NETFLIX : In this "comedy" the movie shows a smooth-talking confidence trickster making his way into congress . Thomas Jefferson Johnson (Eddie Murphy) is a con man from Florida who gets the bright idea that a scam artist could make a tidy sum if he was able to get inside the political arena. Johnson finds a mentor in Dick Dodge (Lane Smith), chairman of the Power and Industry Committee, who shows Johnson the ropes on raking in PAC money while the late Mr. Johnson's aide, Reinhardt (Grant Shaud), gives him the inside scoop on how things work in Washington. In case you don't know it by now . . . we live within a corrupt political system . . . with congress and even the Supreme Court on the take.

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Warren is retired and lives in Florida where he runs a foreign movie program for adults. He subscribes to NETFLIX and uses Rotten Tomatoes as one of the sources for selecting movies to review.

Started watching movies at about eight years old and was strongly influenced by "Fantasia" for it's combination of music and fantasy. He was profoundly impacted in his early teen years by the social content in "I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG".

As a kid he used to enter the movie house in the middle of a double feature and leave when the movie reached the part where he came in. Loved serials and was able to see most double features for ten or twenty-five cents.

A graduate of Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY), he strongly believes that good movies . . . with mature content . . . are a significant supplement to education and insight into the world around us. No egghead, he also believes that "It's A Wonderful Life", "Young Frankenstein", "The Producers", West Side Story", and "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers" are great films.