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2010-06-02 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Feds meet with film director Cameron on oil spill

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Posted by tu3031 2010-06-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 I thought Obama's favorite was Sean Penn. Plus, does this mean the "Plug the damn hole!" order from the One didn't work?

Posted by Varmint Omosh3043 2010-06-02 02:21|| 2010-06-02 02:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like a negotiation to option the rights to the story. If the feds get 20 points on the residuals, they might do the public some good.

Posted by lex 2010-06-02 05:58|| 2010-06-02 05:58|| Front Page Top

#3 "Oh, Jack, I'm gushing!"

Posted by Mike 2010-06-02 08:26|| 2010-06-02 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 The Canadian-born Cameron is considered an expert on underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies.

Makes his presence there seem almost legitimate.
We may just see the world's all time highest grossing propaganda film (just before the next presidential election).

Posted by Keeney 2010-06-02 09:05|| 2010-06-02 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Too late lex..movie rights have already been given to Spike Lee so even botched that layup.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-06-02 10:30|| 2010-06-02 10:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Stunning. Both that they would do this and allow the news to get out.

Posted by Hellfish 2010-06-02 12:25|| 2010-06-02 12:25|| Front Page Top

#7 So is Cameron the left's idea of an oil expert?

Posted by gorb 2010-06-02 14:09|| 2010-06-02 14:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Why not? Pandora doesn't have any oil spills does it?

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-06-02 14:51|| 2010-06-02 14:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Cameron is the superhero of Malibu, battling armageddon from his backyard every year:
Since 1992, [Cameron] has lived in Malibu, in a gated community called Serra Retreat, a patch of scrubby hillside across the highway from the beach. Mel Gibson lives in Serra Retreat; Britney Spears used to be Camerons neighbor there. ... at the end of his driveway, there is a gate, beyond which stands a red Humvee platform fire truck and a uniformed security guard, with a clipboard and a badge.

Ex-military buddies of his younger brother John David, who served as a marine in Iraq during the first Gulf War, sometimes provide additional security.

Camerons imagination was shaped by the Cold War; the threat of nuclear annihilation is a recurring theme. But he also admires the military and its accessories. I suppose you could say I believe in peace through superior firepower, he told me. I dont believe that the human race is going to suddenly evolve to the point that we can all join hands and sing Kumbaya. He learned to shootshotguns, assault rifles, pistolsin the early eighties, when he was writing The Terminator. He has continued his education, training with a handgun expert on a course with pop-up targets, and spending a lot of time in the desert with his friends, shooting up watermelons and jalopies with an AK-47....

We have a big fire problem here, he said. He mentioned that he has his own pump house. We take the pool water, mix it with Class A foam, and pump it out over the whole property. Everybody else just runs for the hills. He threw his hands up and did a squeaky voice. Oh, my God! We sit and wait. Put on our yellow coats and our breathing gear and wait. And, you know what? Its impressive. When these hills light up with a hundred-foot-tall wall of flames coming over the top of the hill there, you feel like its Armageddon.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_goodyear?printable=true#ixzz0piwK7hPR

Posted by lex 2010-06-02 15:07|| 2010-06-02 15:07|| Front Page Top

#10 "We take the pool water, mix it with Class A foam, and pump it out over the whole property."

Wow. As an ex-fire fighter I can tell you this guy knows a few things. I guess every now and then you DO run across someone in Hollywood with half a brain.

Posted by Varmint Omosh3043 2010-06-02 20:26|| 2010-06-02 20:26|| Front Page Top

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