The truth is out there, though, in the form of this suppressed photo taken just hours before Corrie's mysterious assassination:
Fast-food activist Rachel Corrie burns a rival company's menu during a pro-McDonald's demonstration in Gaza.
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I believe it's called, "Guys and Dolls Crushed Flat by Bulldozers"...
Oh, I'll bet... The 23-year-old campaigner was killed in 2003 trying to stop an Israeli army bulldozer from demolishing a Palestinian home in the Rafah camp in the Gaza strip. A personal testimony, the show makes no pretense of impartiality. What a surprise. Corrie's death made her a hero of the four-year-old Palestinian uprising, while critics attacked her as naive, an idiot and a traitor. Yes, so I've heard... But far from being a political rant, "My Name is Rachel Corrie," directed by British actor Alan Rickman, paints a personal portrait, using Corrie's e-mails and diaries to reveal a poetic writer brimming with ideas, energy and quirky humor. ...who was stupid enough to get crushed flat by a bulldozer. "I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop. I don't think it's an extremist thing to do anymore," Megan Dodds in the title role says -- words from the last e-mail Corrie wrote her mother. Sorry, Rachel. Gotta work for a living... LOOK OUT FOR THAT BULLDOZER!!! "We were just trying to show who she was and present her fairly, neither as a saint nor a traitor," Katharine Viner, a journalist at the Guardian newspaper who edited Corrie's writings with Rickman, told Reuters this week. Writer for the Guardian? Oh, I'm sure they won't have her up for sainthood... "Some of her writing is very poetic and profound and you think 'God this was a really good writer and she could've written lots of great stuff had she lived."' ...and not been crushed flat by a bulldozer. The show at London's Royal Court theater runs to the end of this month. So hurry and order now before it's too late! Reviews of "My Name is Rachel Corrie" were generally positive, although The Times broadsheet said some scenes offered only a one-sided portrayal of the Middle East conflict, calling them "unvarnished propaganda." The Guardian countered that "theater has no obligation to give a complete picture." The right-leaning Daily Telegraph's review hailed the "vigor and courage of youthful idealism." I laughed! I cried! I hurled! I wet myself! "I've got a fire in my belly," Corrie pronounces near the start of the show, which opens in her messy bedroom in the town of Olympia, Washington and ends among the bullet-pocked houses and rubble of Rafah. ...and a bulldozer parked on my head. That fire kept Corrie scribbling plans, dreams and opinions constantly in her diary and obsessively making lists. One reads: "Five people to hang out with in eternity: Rainer Maria Rilke, Jesus, ee cummings, Gertrude Stein, Zelda Fitzgerald." Say hello for us, Rachel. Tell'em your tale. They'll probably get a kick out of it... Her philosophical musings on death, faithless boyfriends and improving the world become urgent, intense dispatches to friends and family after she arrives in the Middle East in January 2003. Corrie's parents, in London to see Rickman's show, described it as an authentic portrait of their daughter. "It helps to explain what took her to Rafah, it very powerfully explains what she found there," Corrie's mother Cindy told Reuters. People with bulldozers who don't fuck around maybe? The Corries are suing Caterpillar Inc., the company which manufactures the type of bulldozer used by the Israeli army in Gaza, for damages, accusing Caterpillar of "war crimes." Yeah, good luck with that... Corrie had several prescient dreams about her death. In her last e-mail home she writes: "Mom. I have bad nightmares about tanks and bulldozers outside our house and you and me inside." Wow! She was psychic, too? | ||
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #24 Very funny AC. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-04-22 11:32:32 PM |
| #23 LOL, AC! I was just wondering - I'll back you up if you need / want it, heh. The little IHOP label just does wonders for getting the message across... Heh. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-04-22 10:47:08 PM |
| #22 Many thanks, .com. It will indeed be up for a while, probably until the host bans me in the name of tolerance or I am assassinated by irate peace activists. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-04-22 10:28:26 PM |
| #21 Yes such a peaceful looking type of person. I think we are beter off with the results of the heavy equipment. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-04-22 7:38:57 PM |
| #20 ROFLMAO!!! IHOP - photoshopped and ready to ridicule. Doesn't get any better than this, lol! Will that be available for awhile, AC? |
| Posted by: .com 2005-04-22 7:33:02 PM |
| #19 I like the pensive bird-girl of peace photo. Don't have it handy. |
| Posted by: Gaia 2005-04-22 7:27:10 PM |
| #18 In the saturation media age, totalitarian activists and other subversives know that they can benefit from replacing real history with historical fiction in public perception. How many millions, for example, mistake the background and setting of MASH for the actual Korean War? The lame defense that it's a work of fffiiicction just doesn't wash in the face of this transparently obvious intent. The truth is out there, though, in the form of this suppressed photo taken just hours before Corrie's mysterious assassination: Fast-food activist Rachel Corrie burns a rival company's menu during a pro-McDonald's demonstration in Gaza. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-04-22 7:24:50 PM |
| #17 LOL SM! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-04-22 7:24:28 PM |
| #16 Sponsored by IHOP? |
| Posted by: DMFD 2005-04-22 7:18:15 PM |
| #15 the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds Yeah, that sounds like Rachel doesn't it? Maybe ee cummings really would have beat the shit out of her. You just gotta figure that Gertrude Stein would. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2005-04-22 5:20:56 PM |
| #14 Tied in with the Eastboune gig this week, this looks like an offensive. And we also have the postal vote scam from Birmingham/Manchester (musloids, ala Labour shite) and the voter intimidation in the East End. I think it's time for some serious profiling in the uk. Remember? Rhodesia had a Terrorist war in the '70's and we folded through the fucking Western sanctions. And Zim is paradise now. Time to motivate.....WAKE UP |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2005-04-22 4:44:49 PM |
| #13 First the play, then the song. Can history repeat itself? Horst Wessel (b. September 9, 1907, Bielefeld, Germany -- d. February 23, 1930, Berlin, Germany) joined the Nazi party in in 1926. He was killed by political enemies in a fight in his rooms in Berlin. Glorified as a martyr to the Nazi cause, his song became the offical Nazi anthem. This was perhaps the most famous Nazi song of the war. |
| Posted by: Unomose Thomoger3538 2005-04-22 1:59:22 PM |
| #12 hear the others beat the living shit out of her like fluffing a rug, huh? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-04-22 11:59:08 AM |
| #11 "Five people to hang out with in eternity: Rainer Maria Rilke, Jesus, ee cummings, Gertrude Stein, Zelda Fitzgerald." While I suspect Christ would forgive her -- its his thing, after all -- I wouldn't be surprised to hear the others beat the living shit out of her. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-04-22 11:57:20 AM |
| #10 Charles Johnson outta send the parents a couple of grand in graditude. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-04-22 11:10:52 AM |
| #9 Idiot activist's stupidity immortalized! Celebrate the mental shortcomings of our species where even the sickest and stupidist amongst us can be somebody's heroine! Did her parents get some Intifada Shaheed cash I wonder? How do they calculate the sum due with international exchange rates? Do you calculate from the moment of squashing or do you use the day some "cleric" in Bughtiburg nodded his approval? Maybe that money went to pay the attorney on the case against CAT since that one defintely wasn't being taken on a contingency basis! So many questions. |
| Posted by: Tkat 2005-04-22 11:09:11 AM |
| #8 I found the acting a little flat and lifeless. |
| Posted by: BH 2005-04-22 10:56:35 AM |
| #7 New London Play Fetes U.S. Activist Killed in Gaza Does the stage have a very, VERY low ceiling? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-22 10:54:53 AM |
| #6 "I’ve got a fire in my belly," Corrie pronounces near the start of the show "Now it's out. The belly, I mean." |
| Posted by: BH 2005-04-22 10:45:02 AM |
| #5 Coffee Alert!!!! |
| Posted by: .com 2005-04-22 10:44:14 AM |
| #4 Is the stage strong enough to support a D-9? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-04-22 10:40:51 AM |
| #3 Springtime for |
| Posted by: ed 2005-04-22 10:39:55 AM |
| #2 Ratz. It's directed by Alan Rickman, and actor I used to like and respect. Bah. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-04-22 10:34:15 AM |
| #1 Should have been titled: "New London play Fetes US nazi, racist bitch who turned a blind eye towards the murder of millions in Sudan" |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-04-22 10:29:17 AM |