HappyBirthday BeirutMarine1

[LadyLeatherneck]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR BEIRUTMARINE1
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

Have a wonderful day! :D

[BeirutMarine1]

Thanks for the Birthday greetings Lady.
Semper Fi!

[Ploft]

Happy Birthday Bro. Hope you have a nice day .

Rember Every Day On Top Of The Grass Is A Bonus.

Semper Fi.

Ploft 58-69
Sgt.

[Sixguns]

Celebrate your birthday and the fact you are one more year older and wiser.

SF

[DevilDog1]

Thanks for keeping the Marines of Beirut and Grenada Alive!!! You are the true Meaning of devotion to duty, esprit-de-corps, Hand Salute to you BeirutMarine1!!!

[BeirutMarine1]

Thanks to all for the Birthday greetings. I dont know if anyone saw this post I put it in the Beirut section but it got my blood boiling and I was wondering how you all felt about it.

If this movie debuts anywhere near me I'll picket it myself!!

The paragraph about the Egyptian "Filmmaker" really tells the disgusting story. Does Sean Penn know he is associated with this crap? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm.../sept_11_film_2


Entertainment - AP Movies

9/11 Films Accused of Anti-U.S. Bias
Wed Sep 4,10:35 AM ET
By PAMELA SAMPSON, Associated Press Writer

PARIS (AP) - A French-backed cinematic experiment that aimed to find out how filmmakers from around the world view the Sept. 11 attacks is drawing criticism that it is anti-American.

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Variety magazine said some of the 11 short films that make up "11'09"01" are "stridently anti-American."

And the Italian daily Il Foglio, calling the movie "garbage," said: "The French financiers recruit 11 well-known and some unknown directors ... they explain to us how the United States deserved what happened."

The film's producers say it does not have an anti-American slant, but is an exploration of tragedy from many different angles.

Discussions are under way with potential U.S. distributors, but the producers are in no rush to show the movie in the United States as the first anniversary of the world's deadliest terrorist attack draws near.

"This is now a period of mourning for Americans," said artistic producer Alain Brigand, who came up with the idea for the movie. "We are not in a hurry for this film to debut in the United States."

The film, produced by French media giant Vivendi Universal's StudioCanal and Galatee Films, will be shown at the Venice Film Festival on Friday and the Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 11. It opens in France and a dozen other countries on that date.

Each of the 11 contributing filmmakers was given up to $400,000 to spend, the only restriction being each film's length: 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame. (The title corresponds to the date of the attack as it is written in France.)

The short films include American Sean Penn's portrayal of an isolated, aging widower; a love story by Claude LeLouch of France; Bosnian Danis Tanovic's meditation on the Srebrenica massacre; Israeli Amos Gitai's choreography of a suicide bombing; and Japanese master Shohei Imamura's denunciation of war.

Egyptian director Youssef Chahine's contribution is an 11-minute blast at U.S. foreign policy that stars the ghost of a handsome U.S. Marine killed in a terrorist attack in Lebanon in 1983. Chahine lectures the dead Marine on the destruction that U.S. meddling in the world has wrought — from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the current Middle East conflict. The ghost is grateful for being enlightened.

British filmmaker Ken Loach features an exiled Chilean living in Britain who writes a letter to the families of the Sept. 11 victims, drawing their attention instead to the events in Chile on Sept. 11, 1973, when a U.S.-supported coup d'etat ushered in an era of torture and death.

Indian director Mira Nair tells the true story of Salman Hamdani, a 23-year-old Muslim who died while trying to rescue others at the World Trade Center but who initially was thought to be a terrorist. Characters include intolerant white New Yorkers and insensitive FBI ( news - web sites) agents.

Nair said she was inspired by a desire "to react to the current of phobia against Islam" since Sept. 11.

A pause from some of the invective against the United States comes from Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who intersperses a black screen with video footage of people throwing themselves out of the burning World Trade Center. The film ends with a message written across the screen in Arabic: "Does God's light guide us or blind us?"

On the lighter side, filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo of Burkina Faso puts together a poignant tale of a destitute little boy who quits school to earn money selling newspapers because he needs to buy medicine for his dying mother. One day, the boy takes a close look at one of the newspapers and notices that the front-page picture of Osama bin Laden ( news - web sites) bears a strong resemblance to a man in the street.

The boy becomes convinced the man is bin Laden, and enlists four friends in a comical attempt to capture the man for the $25 million bounty that the United States has placed on bin Laden's head.

Children are also central to Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf, who tells the story of a teacher trying to convey the meaning of the Sept. 11 attacks to Afghan refugee children. The lesson ends when she gathers them at the foot of a tall chimney billowing smoke that looks hauntingly like one of the twin towers on fire.

[Sparrowhawk]

Happy Birthday!

[coterie_mc]

birthday wishes going out to my friend beirutmarine1. hand salute going out to you. ... and a tall shot of jim beam.