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   Joseph Nebus to All   
   17 September 2007 - Breaking News, Morga   
   18 Sep 07 19:49:29   
   
   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Breaking News:   
   	- Simpson's driving past Circus Circus, and New York New York.   
   He stops at a Barnes & Noble and signs copies of ``If I Stole It''.  The   
   Pixar people did all the effects.   
      
      
   Morgan Freeman:   
   	- He's sorry about the wine habit.   
   	   
   	- Conan gave a commencement speech at Harvard.  Freeman read it,   
   and thinks Conan's intelligent.  Freeman had hoped not to convey   
   wordlessly anything to Conan's pointing out that this is despite what he   
   puts on the show.   
   	   
   	- Conan thinks Freeman may have the best voice of any actor on   
   the planet.  It's not a gift.  It used to be high, with a thick   
   Mississippi accent.  When he studied acting at Los Angeles City College   
   he had a fine voice instructor who taught voice and diction and   
   development.  That worked him down.   
   	   
   	- Conan knows as he doesn't like his voice.  He feels he sounds   
   annoying, which may be his self-hate coming through.  Freeman expresses   
   himself wordlessly.   
   	   
   	- Actors he reveres?  Every actor who works inspires him, as   
   he's a big thieffffffff.  As a kid he lived in the movies.  From Jimmy   
   Wakely to Howard Duff, Victor Mature, he watched with the idea of being   
   able to do that.  The only one he can't do that with is James Cagney and   
   Clark Gable.  They had this dialogue affinity which he can't do.   
   	   
   	- Conan speculates that taking something from everything one   
   likes is part of every creative process.  Freeman agrees it may be.  He   
   names Victor Mature movies, and Mature's habit of popping his scalp back   
   when showing emotion.  Conan compares this to how to be a songwriter and   
   Freeman to writing.  Conan's the sum of everyone he watched growing up,   
   but now will pop his skull back.   
   	   
   	- Freeman gives shocking news: ``you're godo at what you do.''   
   Conan does his animatronic brow-raising.   
   	   
   	- He's working with Greg Kinnear, Jane Alexander, Fred Ward,   
   Selma Blair.  It's finally a movie about relationships, which Freeman   
   must express wordlessly but with pantomime.  It's great talking to   
   someone who understands.  In a rare role, Freeman is there to listen to   
   and give good advice to a white guy in emotional distress.   
      
      
   Breaking News:   
   	- Simpson's passing the Treasure Island Casino, stopping at a   
   Sports Memorabilia store, which he steals, and stops at Murder   
   memorabilia store, to steal that too.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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