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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 10 Num. 90
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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KENN THOMAS OFFERS VIEWS ON "CONSPIRACY THEORY" MOVIE
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In CN 10.84 Conspiracy Nation reviewed the movie "Conspiracy
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Theory," starring Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts. In that
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review I asked Kenn Thomas, editor of a remarkably wide-
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ranging magazine covering conspiracy research (Steamshovel
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Press), whether he had seen the movie before or after he
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criticized it. Here is Kenn's reply:
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You caught me. I have not seen the movie yet. I tried when I was in
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Nevada last week, but it's so long that the boat taxis along the
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Colorado River stopped running before it was over, so I couldn't get a
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ride back to my hotel. This makes my point about how a half dozen good
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researchers get the five-second soundbyte on the HBO special "Making of
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Conspiracy Theory" while the poseur Mel smooches the Pretty Woman and
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dodges Captain Picard for two and a half hours.
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It is clear, though, that Mel is a caricature of a conspiracy
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"theorist", a lone nut who produces his rants for a subscriber list of
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five. I am as offended by this as any black person might be by the image
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of Steppinfetchit. So my critique has little to do with the filmography
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of the thing--"Birth of a Nation" and "Triumph of the Will" are fine
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films--than its function as an artifact of the military
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-industrial-entertainment complex.
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Did you see the ad in NY Times with Mel for the Sierra Club Defense
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Fund? Visually, it was an ad for the movie. It did much more for Mel
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than it did for the environmental movement--a movement that in the first
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place has been infiltrated and co-opted, as many readers of Conspiracy
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Nation understand. It bothers me to see the idea of conspiracy research
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being used to advertise some Hollywood movie under the pretense of a PC
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cause. Talk about false dialogues.
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Jon Vankin and Bryce Zabel have a letter writing campaign for a
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Conspiracy TV program now too that I'm less than enthusiastic about. I
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understand the need for popularizers and really do wish them well. As
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with the letter writing campaign to save the silly Dark Skies show,
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though, I see it as a tactic of the Star Trek gits and TV addicts
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(victims of the con, in my view) basically to create a vehicle to sell
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advertising. That will be the only point of any "research" such a show
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would broadcast. Why should we lift a pencil to help when we are already
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pre-occupied with the difficulties of continuing to maintain our own
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feeble (by comparison) attempts to collect and broadcast information?
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Oliver Stone made good with his bid to be Hollywood's "Mr. Conspiracy"
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for while because it was grounded in the reality of the Garrison case
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and helped lead to the creation of the Assassinations Materials Review
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Board. I get rankled, though, when what we do--"we" being a community of
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people such as Skolnick, Weisberg, Judge, etc., all better looking than
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any any matinee idol--gets reduced to just another part of somebody's
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star image.
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Anyway, you're welcome to use these comments in Con Nation or not. I
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certainly respect your opinion about the movie and will, in fact, make
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more of an attempt to actually go see it now.
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Best,
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Kenn Thomas
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Steamshovel Press
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POB 23715
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St. Louis, MO 63121
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subscriptions: 4 issue: $22
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single issue: $5
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