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Titolo: Good Night, and Good Luck

Last week I watched "Good Night, and Good Luck". An... aesthetic 
experience. Very handsome. And a very good film: very meaty, consistent. 
I can't help thinking Clooney moved to Italy to study Silvio. The 
analogies are stunning. I often said to myself: "No, this is about 
Berlusconi!" (it must be said he's no McCarthy, though).
I'm about to see "Keeping Mum". I'm happy because I don't get to see so 
many British films as I would like: I know fewer, and I mostly like 
smart cinema, as it were, not regional stuff.
FB

 must be said he's no McCarthy, though).
I totally agree with you. I would never have expected such an aesthetic (as 
you called it) experience from the direction of one of the most handsome 
american actors!
Cla. 

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Well, he knows from handsome.
Bye, FB

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How's by you, FB? I see you just can't stay away from certain turns of
speech!
I haven't seen the film, but I intend to.
It is said that the straw that broke the camel's back, as far as
McCarthy was concerned, was a phrase spoken by a Senator, when, during
a speech attacking McCarthy, he uttered the phrase, "Have you no
shame!", which resonated throughout America.
I would guess that portions of the speech appears in the film.
The waters of Lake Como seem to have a salutary effect on George.
I wonder how his Laghee accent is?
I saw him on TV this morning with his father Nick, being interviewed
about their involvement with efforts to get the US government more
involved with aid to Darfur. Kudos to them!
Joe from Massachusetts

 shame!", which resonated throughout America.
That's a common misconception, but actually the comment was "Have you no
sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" and
it was spoken by a lawyer at the hearings, not a senator.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001036.html

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Anyway, I do recall such a sentence in the film.
Bye, FB

 speech!
I've been watching a lot of Woody Allen. And recently heard "I know from 
bitch" in a tv series.
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Bye, FB

 Anyway, I do recall such a sentence in the film.
In the film, they used the correct phrasing: "Have you no sense of decency,
sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
The demise of McCarthyism was an important event in the US for true
proponents of freedom and democracy, and a blow to the posers who advance
such rhetoric as an abuse of power for their own gain. So, this is one case
where accuracy is important for history. Let's hope we're currently in a 
situation ripe for history to repeat itself.

 sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
Actually, they showed the real scene with the real voices and, of 
course, the real sentence.
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Bye, FB

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Even having seen recent TV documentaries about the Army-McCarthy
hearings which included the speech, I and many other people manage to
remember primarily the emotion of the speech and its after-effects,
and forget who spoke the words or what the exact words were.
The phrase "Have you no shame" is to this day often used by
politicians who think they are remembering the speech which shot down
"tail-gunner Joe" when they criticize other politicians whose conduct
they deem reprehensible. These words were often directed against John
Kerry during his campaigns.
Joe from Massachusetts