Roger Ebert on the movie "America the Beautiful"


	Roger Ebert on the movie "America the Beautiful"

Lexica

6-12-2008 12:43 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a94d9ac8-1b84-4254-a058-b0b73ea1dc57/123812FB-0B52-4487-8415-D1BB04C36740/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080609/PEOPLE/840428890/-1/RSS" href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080609/PEOPLE/840428890/-1/RSS" style="font-size: 11px;">rogerebert.suntimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080609/PEOPLE/840428890/-1/RSS">	A man from Chicago named Darryl Roberts made "<A href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/classifieds?category=REVIEWS01&TITLESearch=America%20the%20Beautiful&ToDate=20081231">America the Beautiful</A>," a documentary that nobody wanted. It was about our obsession with being thin and beautiful and... perfect. Every distributor in the country turned him down. They told him he was black, and the 12-year-old fashion model at the center of the film was black, and blacks don't go to documentaries. He finally talked it into the American Film Institute's festival in Dallas, where it sold out four shows</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080609/PEOPLE/840428890/-1/RSS">
That makes me happy. This is a film that deserves to be seen.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080609/PEOPLE/840428890/-1/RSS">His film contains as astonishing statement: "Three minutes of looking at a fashion magazine makes 90 percent of women of all ages feel depressed, guilty and shameful."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080609/PEOPLE/840428890/-1/RSS">his voice became a little more urgent as he said: "We have to learn to love ourselves just the way we are, just the way we look.  We have to do it as a means of survival.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080609/PEOPLE/840428890/-1/RSS">I know I’m on the right track. My principle is that every human being alive has something unique about them. They’re beautiful."</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/123812FB-0B52-4487-8415-D1BB04C36740/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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