hooner@athena.mit.edu (Hoon Ko) (02/12/88)
Just to clarify MY position, since this all started as a response to an article I posted: 1. I am NOT sexist. I don't think there's automatically/necessarily any link between being gross and having sex appeal. 2. *I* don't call people gross. I was just quoting one of the friends I went with. 3. I *LOVED* Broadcast News, thought it was one of the best movies I'd ever seen. That was pretty clear in the original posting- I had no idea why anyone wouldn't like the movie, and so I posted the reasons why my friends didn't, thinking maybe someone out there agreed with them, maybe for those reasons, and could explain to me what I couldn't understand from my friends. 4. Thanks to Mike P and Joe irregardless for clarifying my point- Eric Townsend didn't read the article closely enough. It was pretty clear that I didn't agree whatsoever with those three points- I'll forward email to you, Eric, if you want- all the people who sent me email about my posting tried to explain why they *DIDN'T* like the movie. 5. I don't think Joe was really that out of line. 6. If you have different standards and think that he was, don't judge MIT by Joe. In fact, I don't think you should correlate the school he's from with his comments. He doesn't work for MIT administration after all. 7. Re Eric's posting about the movie revolving around ethics and not sex appeal: the movie tried to show how in the intense pressure of broadcast news, strong feelings of comradery from getting the news out on time etc can be confused for love and passion. Hence someone like Holly Hunter who is so incredible behind the editing and the producing would be very respected and by some confused coworkers would be wanted because they confused such respect with romance. 8. ONE MORE TIME: I LOVED BROADCAST NEWS, I LOVED HOLLY HUNTER, THOUGHT SHE WAS VERY APPEALING IN THE MOVIE, TOTALLY RELATED TO HER CHARACTER. I think that does it ... oh, some other stuff: My name is Hoon , my last name is Ko, and I really don't think it's relevant, Eric. Just call me hooner. Mitchell Lerner was just as out of line as Joe was, yet I see no flames for his similar comments. -Hoon Ko hooner@athena.mit.edu