昨天,作家朋友Adam的电视节目得到了Emmy奖的提名,9月16号是颁奖日子,希望他时来运转,获奖成名。转述他的书信如下,请大家跟我一起讨论。
在好莱坞生活,周围结交的都是渐渐成名成家的朋友,Adam是其中的一个。但他从来没跟我提过这个Ron Clark的故事,我们大多时候谈的都是他的那些有关Tantrics(密宗)哲学、身体训练导引,世界各地方术魔法巫医巫药等等的东西,我相信这些才是他最关心最感兴趣的题材方向。
而他竟然作了一个有关Ron Clark的电视节目,让我大跌眼镜。这个Ron Clark听起来简直就是一个特别善于利用机会的骗子。而这个节目本身就是为美国政府作的政治宣传。这个Ron Clark Story要是放在中国,大概就是那种政府宣传材料上的先进人物的“光辉事迹”。Clark也不过就是中国的“又红又专“的一个模范教师而已。
名利场里,从古至今都在上演这样让人啼笑皆非的喜剧-一个专攻房中术/炼金术/迷魂草药的作家诗人居然写起了政治宣传片,这到底是上进还是堕落?全世界都在虚伪地喝彩呢。当然,从此后Adam就可以大张旗鼓地搞他的房中术专集电视片了。
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I am thrilled, a bit perplexed, yet delighted to let you know that
I have been nominated for my first Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences Emmy Award for Best Film or Mini-Series of the Year as
Executive Producer of the TNT Film, The Ron Clark Story.
Yeehah, baby! Only took 14 years.
Despite the brilliant creativity of the title, it's a nice film
about an extraordinary young man who left his native backwoods
North Carolina town to teach in Harlem after seeing a 20/20 News
Report about how schools couldn't keep teachers more than a year -
if that.
Nobody told Ron he was white.
He had never been to NY. And when he arrived and talked himself in
a job (I think they hired him as blood sport) - he actually went
into the projects to meet the families of each of his students. No
one had ever thought to do this before. By the time he was done,
he had his kids attend their first Broadway show, meet the
President of the United States, travel to South Africa... and, as
movies like this require, kick ass on the State Exams.
I dare you to watch it and not cry.
Ron's an amazing - UNSTOPPABLE - force of nature - a wispy,
seemingly light-spirited guy - and his fierce devotion to giving
his greatest gifts to the world despite incredible resistance is
astonishing and can be an example to us all.
My partner and I discovered Ron all the way back in 2001 after ABC
asked us to find a heroic story in the wake of 9/11.
5 Years and hundreds of meetings and setbacks later, the film made
it to screen starring Matthew Perry, much to the credit of my two
Executive Producer partners.
Hollywood takes persistence, too.
The best thing about all of this, besides the fact that my Mom now
gets to tell her friends that her son is Emmy Nominated - AND that
I now insist my kids address me as "Emmy Nominated Dad," is that
the book deal I set up for Ron led to two NYT Best Sellers and
enough money for him to start an innovative school for
underprivileged kids in Atlanta.
And the fact that his enthusiasm and ideas have gained growing
influence in teaching circles.
Ron's method begins in ABSOLUTE LOVE of the children he serves, and
an UNSHAKEABLE faith in every individual's ability to rise above
circumstances and flourish magnificently and uniquely.
Amen.
So in the spirit of celebration, please look for me on September
16th on Fox (blech!) pulling up in my borrowed Bentley Convertible
(sweeeet!), dressed like a monkey, with the red-headed goddess at
my side.
Everybody loves an uplifting story, so we may even win...
Of course, we all already have.
We just need to awaken to it.
But you knew that....
- Re: 絮叨posted on 08/18/2007
人性的结果.人是追求利益的,为了利益,其它的很难顾及.
毛主席说过, 做一件好事并不难,难的是一辈子做好事.
一个人一段时间或某些事情保持崇高并不难,难的是一辈子或所有事情都崇高.
中国古代圣贤庄子,老子,好象看透名利,其实也是大俗人一个.
- Re: 白宫“喉舌”为钱要辞职posted on 08/18/2007
美国白宫新闻发言人托尼·斯诺17日说,他将在总统布什任期结束前辞职离任,与前国防部长唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德和布什高级政治顾问卡尔·罗夫辞职不同,斯诺说,他选择离开是因为他需要更多钱。
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