----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Those of you joining this cry-baby session are no less open-minded for fawning all over PF than the "others" are for fawning all over Gump. How can you lump Gump together with Newt Gingrich, the Contract for America, and the demise of American society?? Sure the reaction to Gump was a bit extreme (no more than your reaction to PF), but the movie itself certainly isn't in the league of Newt and his cohorts. In fact, I think if the movie had been made ten years from now, it would have included a hilarious scene about Gump making his own Contract, or the like. I can't help but think that you missed the humor and the irony of the movie. Gump's naivete about the Vietnam rally was not a plug for conservative America, but a wrenching reminder of the pain of the generation that was torn apart by the war. And c'mon, you can't tell me that the Watergate scene in Gump was any less humorous than the PF's foot massage conversation! Sure, the Academy's biased and something should be done about it. But piling your own biases on top of the argument doesn't help.