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511 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

>I dont know how this discussion morphed into this. >First, Martha made some excellent points about how the >movie concealed Kahlo's handicap. And then Marta and >I both speculated that it was because the actress was >going to be pushed as a "bimbo" (I dont know why bimbo >is used, the correct word would be "bimba") and that >it wouldn't have been sexy if the withered leg had >been put into evidence. Well, it is not that it would not be sexy, it is th ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 27 14:15:03 PST 2003

512 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

> >That may or may not be true. As a frequent reader of the US magazine "best >and worst dressed" pages, I've seen a lot of serious, talented actresses >wearing some pretty scanty get-ups to these events. But if they are taken >less seriously for it, that says much more about our culture's ambivalence >about sex and femininity - women can't be hyper-sexual and be "serious" >people -- than about the talents of the ladies in question. > > >Liza I ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 27 10:17:58 PST 2003

513 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

>On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 at 9:50pm Marta Russell wrote: >> >> I don't know of any serious actors who walk practically >> nude to the academy - not even Sharon Stone. I don't >> think people view that sort of thing as serious > >sounds like a load of moralizing horeshit to me. Then why don't men actors do it, ehh? Marta -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 27 10:06:18 PST 2003

514 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

>>Now Daniel Day Lewis - that is an actor. >>Marta > >He is -- and he would still be even if he were to appear in >see-through clothing everywhere. >-- >Yoshie > That opens another question. Men actors don't chose to do that do they? Why not? Marta --

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jan 27 10:04:11 PST 2003

515 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

>Marta wrote: > > >> I don't know of any serious actors who walk practically nude to the >> academy - not even Sharon Stone. I don't think people view that sort >> of thing as serious and I don't think Salma Hayek is a serious actor, >> mostly a body who should be a model for bikini magazines. That is >> how she portrays herself and that is the reaction that she gets. She >> really wasn't actor enough for this film is what I am saying. Now > ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jan 26 22:23:47 PST 2003

516 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

>Marta Russell wrote: > >>Living in LA I do know that Salma shows up at the Academy and >>elsewhere in completely see through clothing. > >What's wrong with see-through clothing? > >Doug I don't know of any serious actors who walk practically nude to the academy - not even Sharon Stone. I don't think people view that sort of thing as serious and I don't think Salma Hayek is a serious actor, mostly a body who should be a model for bikini magazines. That is how she ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jan 26 21:50:39 PST 2003

517 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

Living in LA I do know that Salma shows up at the Academy and elsewhere in completely see through clothing. She is bimbo all over - just the Mexican variety. It stunned me that Traymor would have agreed to do the film with her. Marta >Marta, > >I haven't seen the film yet, but when I do, I shall >keep in mind your comments. I wasn't even aware >of Kahlo's withered leg and would not have had the >background to consider this aspect of the movie had >you not mentioned it in y ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jan 26 21:25:24 PST 2003

518 FRIDA review -- rank: 1000

My review of "Frida" is up at: http://www.counterpunch.org/russell01252003.html -- Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jan 26 11:50:23 PST 2003

519 LA Times anti-war coverage -- rank: 1000

The anti war protests made the front page of the LA Times today. http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Ddemos19jan19001523&section=%2Fnews%2Fprintedition%2Ffront -- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jan 19 14:06:54 PST 2003

520 Marta wanted you to see this! -- rank: 1000

>At 11:20 PM 1/18/2003 -0500, you wrote: >> >> >>Marta Russell thought you may be interested in this website. >> >>You can join our Direct mailing list by sending a blank email to >join-truthout at lists.truthout.com >> >>http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/011803A.wrp.cnn.htm >> >>ApplyRefer v2.3 > > > > >Marta, can you confirm this in a mainstream source? Any chance the press >will pick it up? You'd have to contact Wil ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jan 19 10:51:32 PST 2003

521 What's next? -- rank: 1000

Would enough Americans *not* go to work on Friday February 14 (isn't that Valentine's Day?) to clog up the works? To the issue of targets. The Brits seem to have targets. Don't we need a mass lobby on congress? They have us as long as we must do permitted marches and can only go where the route of travel is -- nowhere near where the decisions get made. The business of Congress needs to be interrupted. I do think Ramsey Clark has a good idea -- impeach Bush. If they can try to impeach Clinto ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jan 18 20:12:08 PST 2003

522 Rent this space -- rank: 1000

>``...Well I suppose I should have gone to the preliminary meetings >this time to insist on accessible transport earlier on. So the excuse >is that the private company who is renting the buses for tonight >cannot get an accessible bus because the only one he knows of is in >use on some other job....'' Marta > >--------- > >Yeah, well, you know, bullshit. > >While was reading this, I wondered how to solve it. Is the LA-SF >transportation free? Partly free, par ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jan 18 10:33:28 PST 2003

523 Rent this space -- rank: 1000

> >Hey Marta, > > > >One shop debate today was whether it was going to be more of an >anti-Bush or anti-war demo. But I figure they are about the same. In >fact wouldn't that be a nice consequence of the more moderate tone? > >Chuck Grimes Hey Chuck, Well at least we you are one other body that won't make it there either. That is some consolation. But let me rant. During the Gulf War protests, a disability activist here collected $300 to have a ramp built to the s ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jan 17 22:05:42 PST 2003

524 Rent this space -- rank: 1000

Of the 17 busses that will going from LA to San Francisco, not one of them has a wheelchair lift on it. They asked me would I agree to be "carried" up the steps. Don't these people know about wheelchair lifts? NO they don't. Further, the organizer at the LA office, Scott told me he would try to get an accessible bus from the company they are getting the busses from. But this morning he had not done so and now the phones are so busy I cannot get through. So much for "equality& ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jan 17 14:37:15 PST 2003

525 Canada & the War -- rank: 1000

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jan2003/can-j15.shtml Canada intensifies support for US war on Iraq By Keith Jones 15 January 2003 <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/jan2003/can-j15_prn.shtml>Use this version to print | <http://www.wsws.org/cgi-bin/birdcast.cgi>Send this link by email | <mailto:editor at wsws.org>Email the author Canada’s Liberal government has served notice that Canada will support and participate in a US-conquest of Iraq and do so irrespective of whether th ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jan 16 16:33:23 PST 2003