European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Advertising the fact that these Are the Andy Rooney 1 judging whether a movie is any Good by looking through the ads in the paper is an Art and while i want to appear modest i consider myself Good at it. Most of the statements in the ads Are quotes taken from reviews. A movie with Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood a perfect world is called a Majestic profoundly  i like Clint Eastwood. I done to know though. Tonight i done to think in a in the mood for profound or moving. Shadowlands is called a one of the very Best films of the  they always say that. There Are usually three or four movies running at any Given time that Are called a one of the Best films of the  Siskel and Ebert added a Little to it this time by calling shadowlands one of the very Best shadowlands is a based on a True  in a surprised that producers think that a a big attraction. When i go to see a movie i done to care whether its based on a True Story. Id just As soon see pure fiction. In the name of the father with Daniel Day Lewis is also a a True Story from the director of  foot,1�?� i believe we missed my left foot too. Heaven and Earth is called a extra Oral nary a Beautiful film of epic  this movie was directed by Oliver Stone. He a a Good movie maker but i was so mad at what i thought was the dishonest Way he made the movie Juk that i done to want to see anything else he docs. In be heard that Short cuts is a remarkable and unusual movie. The and says it won a Best pictures at the Venice film festival. In be never known whether you can Trust those foreign film festivals. When i asked my Friend who said it was a remarkable and unusual what else there was to say about it he said  the and does no to say a Long a almost All the movies being advertised seem to have a a won Golden Globe nominations. In a not familiar with them. Are they anything like the oscars i guess they Haven to Given out the awards act because these pictures Are Only nominated. Nominated Only counts in horseshoes. The and for Beethoven a 2nd says a Golden Globe nominee a but under that the line is a Best original  i gather the movie did no to get nominated for anything but the song a which does no to make it really compelling. A a you re going to have to see wrestling Ernest Hemingway Quot the and says. Listen Siskel and you too Ebert i like your reviews but done to Tell me what i have to see and what i done to. This movie May be too cute for my taste and in a not going to it no matter what you say. The Pelican Brief is labelled a a heart stopping spine chilling adrenaline pumping run for your life  hmm. Maybe. Half a dozen films Are called simply a a Magnolfi cent a a riveting a a a explosive a a a hysterical or a see it a id be hard put to decide which picture id rather see a one that was magnificent riveting explosive hysterical or see it. I think the word a picture a meaning a a movies or a motion picture a is dying out Here a something called what seating Gilbert grape. Its described by critic Bonnie Churchill As univ Oral dbl Mazar holds the line in Beethoven s 2nd, a an emotional Wake up Call with a Oscar written All Over  my emotions have been up All Day Bonnie. J from everything in be heard Schindler s list is As the and claims a the Best picture of the  its important that no one Ever forgets what happened to millions of jews in nazi Germany but having seen evidence of it myself firsthand when i walked into Buchenwald on april 12,1945, in a not sure i want to spend several hours of one of my Days now being reminded of details i could never forget. I done to go to movies to weep or to be reminded of the worst times of my life. Tribunal Modla sort los Andy Rooney is a formic stars and strips  Isnit the Clarence Page a couple of Sharp eyed readers of this column caught me in a a a gotcha of political correctness. My Sharp eyed readers wanted me to know i had offended some people by my use of a certain word in a column i had written. The word was  use aleut or inuit or some other native ethnic Label i was told. A Eskimo a like a a Indian or a negro a is a word White settlers conferred on the native nonwhite people of Alaska Canada and other regions of the frigid North not a term they chose for themselves. I confess that my first impulse was to Tell these Sharp eyed readers where to go. It is irritating to be accused of insensitivity when you know that was not your intent. But 1 was Cool. I calmly apologized for any offence and promised to be More careful. After All i said diplomatically people Are entitled to be called what they want to be called not what i want to Call  but what a i wondered a does this mean for Eskimo pie ice Cream bars a that a their problem my caller said. I guess it is. It is a problem just about every corporate manager is wrestling with one Way or another in this age of increasing ethnic and gender diversity in the workplace. Just ask the editors at the los Angeles times. They stirred Uptan internal commotion with a recently issued 19-Page Booklet guidelines on ethnic racial sexual and other identification. Drafted by a 22-member committee and issued by editor Shelby Coffey its list of words to avoid in eludes a a Wasp a May be pejorative a a co cd a considered derogatory to female College students a a dutch treat a an offensive reference to sharing expenses a a a mailman a Many women hold this jobs a a Mankind a humanity human beings and Humankind Are preferred and a Man made Quot the preferred words Are artificial manufactured and synthetic. Among other taboo terms a deaf a a babe a a Bra Bumer a a chinese fire Drill a a crazy a a Normal a a Gal a a ghetto a a dinner City a a Gyp Ped a derogatory derivation of a a Gypsy a handicapped a a hillbilly a a holy rollers a a indians a a queer a a Welsh Era a derogatory derivation of a a Welsh a White trash and yes  some staffers could not believe their eyes. In one eloquent memo the newspapers Washington Bureau observed that the times list itself could have used a Little More editing. Although Coffey insists the list should be taken As suggestions not rules at least some of its notations a birth defect use congenital disability a deaf avoid the  read More like decrees and Are quite Likely to be interpreted As such by cautious a or timid a editors the Washington Bureau memo said. A the journey from shunning offensive words to shying away from painful facts and subjects is Short Quot the memo said. A it is too easy for editors and reporters who want to avoid transgressions to Stop writing on topics that arc racially or politically  How True. Unfortunately the journey from reporting on sensitive subjects to distorting them also is Short. Every time people say they done to care what people want to be called they arc telling those peo pie they done to count. For years major Media reported news about women and minorities As if they did no to care who they offended. That a not a Good Way for anyone to do business. In my Young reporting Days in Chicago about 20 years ago i was warned away from using a Paddy  it was offensive to the Irish an editor said. Not to any Irish i knew. Still i avoided the term and i done to think my copy suffered for it. Even so we must avoid letting the pendulum swing too far in the sensitivity direction or the Bland will be leading the Bland. Some of the words on the los Angeles times list for example should have been edited out and May yet be. Worrying too much about Quot deaf a a Gyp a a Welsh a a handicapped a a a crazy and a a Normal could drive Normal reporters crazy. Rules Are treacherous because standards Are always changing sometimes faster than even the affected groups can keep up. In Mold enough to remember for example when people of my race were called a a coloured  now we re called a people of  in Between we be been a negro a a a Blacks and  Small wonder then that sometimes i am asked outright which i prefer. Its Nice to be asked. 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