I thought that Jodie Foster was coming out, judging by your title.

So, SETI is a few blocks away from me and I stopped by there a couple years ago. Walked in and Ms. Tartar was sitting there in the empty lobby, waiting for people to arrive. Turns out the Jodie Foster character in the movie Contact was loosely based on her and her work. Interesting to talk with her -- even though I don't think we're receiving any extraterrestrial communication any time soon.

The texan sounded very Jody Foster. Sydney was bang-on.

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Odd bit of trivia I'm almost embarrassed to know When the show was first filmed as a pilot his name was Mr. Hinkley. At some point between the filming of the pilot and the airing of the series John Hinkley decided to express his love for Jodie Foster by trying to assassinate Reagan, so Mr. H was born instead. Can't remember offhand if they ever gave him a full last name or not but for some odd reason that much stuck in my mind.

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But what's more is the fact the guy asking the question isn't just some obese tourist in a Hawaiian shirt,

You say that as if he was that would be excuse enough to act like a dick to this person. Nice stereotype BTW.


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Obviously he has some proficiency in French or his employer wouldn't have sent him to the interview. He's too lazy to apply his knowledge.

Did you ever stop to think that because he speaks English that he works for a media outlet with an English speaking viewers/readers and knowing this guy speaks English wanted to get a direct quote or sound bite in English for those people? I mean really...where was the harm in answering the question?


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What we have seen here is an anglophone's sense of cultural entitlement.

So why is this guy interviewing Jodi Foster in French?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImVlS5HOzZo

Is it due to some "cultural entitlement"? I can't believe that his boss would send someone to interview am American actress that did not speak English. Is he just being lazy?

I think this is why in the movie "Contact" that old man that "funded" Jody Foster's character in the movie was living on an airplane since he was "diagnosed" with some form of cancer.

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the mention of ochams razor is a really old and problematic argument. I remember watching the Jodie Foster movie where its mentioned. It's a precept, and has more to do with common sense than science (the two being sometimes in opposition - quantum mechanics)

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Kant felt a need to moderate the effects of Occam's razor and thus created his own counter-razor: "The variety of beings should not rashly be diminished."

"beings" here means , in philosophical terminology, an entity, a thing, anything that can be said to be (to exist)

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Great movie and a better book.

I was a bit pissed when I first watched it, because they made this huge deal of of the religion vs. science thing - which wasn't in the book so much. I've since mellowed, but still like the book better.


In the book they had this cool thing where the Jodie Foster character at the end of the story, turned the pattern detection computers toward looking for patterns in repeating decimal numbers. She found numbers that geometrically represented this huge circle, a few thousand places in to pi. She took this as proof that the universe was artificially created. (kind of like finding a serial number stamp). Really fascinating stuff.

Travis Bickle (De Niro) is an alienated, isolated, depressed and sexually frustrated young man of 26 from the Midwest, who says he was a Marine. He suffers from chronic insomnia and consequently takes a job as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City. Travis spends his spare time watching pornography in seedy porn theaters and driving around aimlessly through the shadiest neighborhoods of Manhattan.

In this scene we clearly see how his isolation has reached levels where his only communication is with himself in the mirror.

Taxi Driver is a 1976 American film drama directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. It is widely considered one of the greatest, but also one of the most controversial films in the history of American cinema and is frequently praised for its strong performances and gritty realism. The film is also notable for making stars out of both its leading actors, Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster; the latter was only thirteen years old when the movie was released. It was also the last film on which the legendary composer Bernard Herrmann (famed for his work with Alfred Hitchcock, especially Psycho) completed work on, and Taxi Driver is dedicated to his memory.

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Love this movie! I wanted to have a go with Jodie Foster after this movie.