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Ben Jackson

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Benny Profane said:
Yep. I would go to post here. Thank you for your post, @Verkhovensky.

So, two legends passed away. 2 of 3 only men who won the World Cup as player and coach passed away!!!

Rest in Peace, Kaiser!!!!
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I was very sad when I heard the news. Playing high school football (I still play college football but not that much; I usually play either at the heart of the defense or mid-field), I adopted Franz and Cryuff (another football icon) as models for playing.
 
Leseratte

Leseratte

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Benny Profane said:
Owner of the most successful bookstores of Brazil, Paulo Hertz passed away today:

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Pedro Herz, dono da Livraria Cultura, morre em SP aos 83 anos

Livreiro foi responsável por transformar o varejo de livros no país. Ele faleceu nesta terça (19). Corpo será velado e sepultado na manhã de quarta (20), no Cemitério Israelita do Butantã.
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I loved LIvraria Cultura. In its good days it was the place to buy foreign classic literature sometimes cheaper than a magazine.
 
Benny Profane

Benny Profane

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The mighty Louis Gossett Jr, the eternal Colonel Charles "Chappy" Sinclair, passed away.

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Louis Gossett Jr obituary

American actor best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman
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His most known film is the iconic Iron Eagle.

This film and its continuations (Iron Eagle II and III) belong to my childhood. Eternal memories!

Edit: I know these films are seen as just crap but they are my guilty pleasures! LOL!
If all the rubbish films were as Iron Eagle, we would have a better society! ;)
 
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Benny Profane

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dc007777 said:
OJ Simpson, a man who has figured in the American cultural landscape in one way or another for the past 50 years, has died. I've always wondered why a great American novel about him has never been produced.
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Interesting question.

I hope I'm wrong, but I more and more notice that, due the dysfunctions of "cancelling culture" and "#metoo movement", a writer who writes something about a "rapist" will be branded as mysoginist, will be sued and the work will never published.
 
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dc007777

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Benny Profane said:
Interesting question.

I hope I'm wrong, but I more and more notice that, due the dysfunctions of "cancelling culture" and "#metoo movement", a writer who writes something about a "rapist" will be branded as mysoginist, will be sued and the work will never published.
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I think it can be done the right way. Guess we just need to wait for the right writer!
 
Liam

Liam

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dc007777 said:
I think it can be done the right way. Guess we just need to wait for the right writer!
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The "right" kind of writer would make anything interesting and worthwhile. There have been excellent movies about Hitler for example (Downfall, etc), and he's probably a million times worse than O.J.
 
Liam

Liam

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Benny Profane said:
I hope I'm wrong, but I more and more notice that, due the dysfunctions of "cancelling culture" and "#metoo movement", a writer who writes something about a "rapist" will be branded as mysoginist, will be sued and the work will never published.
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So, you don't think that American Psycho could have been published in today's literary climate? ?
 
Benny Profane

Benny Profane

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Liam said:
So, you don't think that American Psycho could have been published in today's literary climate? ?
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Obviously, not, Liam!

At least, in my country...

In nowadays, American Psycho is being treated as a dangerous work for "incels", "redpills", "MGTOWs", etc.
I don't know the reality in North-American, but in my country freedom of speech and creativity in Arts no longer exists here.

I don't want to approach political subjects here and I don't know if you are knowing what is happened here (Elon Musk vs Brazilian Supreme Court, specially about the controversial Alexandre de Moraes), but there is ocurring a vortex of censorship by two sides (left and right).
On the left, false-moralism against alleged "racism, xenophoby, sexism, chauvinism, fatphobia", etc.

On the right, false-moralism against alleged "homossexuality, drugs, etc".

Our dear Leseratte started a thread about it: https://www.worldliteratureforum.co...banning-of-books-in-brazil.68257/#post-189302

So, you can conclude that our situation is very bad! :(
 
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Liam

Liam

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Benny Profane said:
I don't know the reality in North-American, but in my country freedom of speech and creativity in Arts no longer exists here.
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That is very sad to hear. I do wish politicians kept their noses out of the arts.

Ellison published another novel about a serial killer last year, but I've no idea if it's as shocking as American Psycho. It looks like it's his longest book to date.
 
Benny Profane

Benny Profane

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Liam said:
That is very sad to hear. I do wish politicians kept their noses out of the arts.

Ellison published another novel about a serial killer last year, but I've no idea if it's as shocking as American Psycho. It looks like it's his longest book to date.
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Not only politicians but "collectives" and groups of pressure too (principally, alleged group of "minorities").
 
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