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Thu Jun-03-04 12:19 PM
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DU Trivia: What was the first film shown in the White House |
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:20 PM
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:21 PM
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Edited on Thu Jun-03-04 12:22 PM by LynneSin
....we have a winner Congrats!! President Woodrow Wilson was the one who viewed the first movie shown in the White House http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004972/trivia
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:22 PM
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I think it was Woodrow Wilson who thought the film was incredibly important. And by "important" he meant "fucking disgraceful".
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:32 PM
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:23 PM
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Edited on Thu Jun-03-04 12:24 PM by flamingyouth
To Woodrow Wilson, I believe. Edit - I didn't read the previous posts. :D
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:25 PM
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6. The first one for W would have been |
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"A Bug's Life" to go along with his reading of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:29 PM
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We all know Bush can't read!
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:33 PM
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9. After seeing "Patton", President Nixon ordered the bombing of Cambodia. |
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Thu Jun-03-04 02:20 PM
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11. After seeing too many bad Ben Affleck movies... |
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...I ordered the bombing of Hollywood. A squadron of B-52s, payload-heavy, are circling above the city now, waiting to drop their ordinance when I say "Bennifer"...
Sorry. Somebody HAD to do it.
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Thu Jun-03-04 12:35 PM
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10. I'm guessing "Birth of a Nation," during Wilson's reign... |
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Wilson called "BoaN" "history written with lightning." His version of history, anyway. Wilson's hard-core racist beliefs were very much in keeping with the themes of Griffith's film, which, however ground-breaking it was in cinematic terms (and it was very ground-breaking) is very hard to watch.
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