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p>To see Hollywood admit in public how important Riefenstahl is to them was, in a perverse way, refreshing. br> -- Craig Good br> Emeryville, California /p> p> LOOK WHO'S TALKING br> Re: James Bowman's Repression Night : /p> p>James Bowman remarks in his Repression Night piece that "It would probably never occur to a plumber or a grocery bagger to take for granted his own qualifications to evaluate those of the leader of the Western world -- and to find them wanting." Bowman must not get out much if he believes this. Politics is the mother's milk of lively conversation among plumbers, grocery baggers, auto glass repairers, meter readers and forklift operators throughout the land. Very often they are as knowledgeable -- and at least as wise -- in their views and opinions as not only Hollywood's elite, but the media elite, the Ivy League elite or any other elite you can name. They are Americans, after all, and as Michel-Guillaume de Crèvecoeur wrote, in the far long ago, of farmers, fishermen and frontiersmen in Sketches of Eighteenth Century America , "... they carefully read the newspapers, enter into every political disquisition, freely blame governors and others." Nothing has changed in 250 years. br> --

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