tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post3995217666356682647..comments2024-02-16T22:14:46.997-05:00Comments on Deborah Lipstadt’s Blog: Apples Over the Fence [12]: Lipstadt Commentary in the ForwardDeborah Lipstadthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10459645888846468575noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-89337220762546113002009-01-03T10:30:00.000-05:002009-01-03T10:30:00.000-05:00And that leaves me feeling sorry for your folly, s...And that leaves me feeling sorry for your folly, sir.<BR/><BR/>It is clear that Herman has been picked up by another publisher. It's clear as day. What you are seeing is NOT the screenplay text, but the actual book from York House Publishing.<BR/><BR/>Now whether it was him or his agent, I do not know. But it is HIS book.<BR/><BR/>Good day.Jeremy Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05866399188334047896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-8836290887799746872009-01-02T23:02:00.000-05:002009-01-02T23:02:00.000-05:00Jarrod,Poor Herman did not sell his book to anothe...Jarrod,<BR/>Poor Herman did not sell his book to another publisher. I don't know where you heard or read that but it is just not true. Let's leave the stuff about money and Herman aside, because that is NOT what he was after. Just exactly what he was after, yes, we all still want to know. I hope some enterprisiing reporter will get a foot in his door down there in Miami and ask both Herman and Roma just what excacty it was they were after. It was not money. Trust me, They live in a modest apartment, hardly rich at all, more like lower middle clas, the guy is 80, he never had a big paying job in life, I am sure he is living on Social Security and peanuts. He doesn't need a BMW, he can't drive now. He doesn't need a rolex, time is not important at 80. So first, Jarrod, Herman did not sell his book to another publisher. What I think you read or heard is that a publisher somewhere, I don't know which one, has agreed to publish at some point in the future the "screenplay" text, the actuall Hollywood screenplay of a movie based loosely on Herman's fable, tale, we can call it that now, but this movie has not even started yet and movies take one or two or three years to shoot, edit and do post-production work, so it won't hit movie screens until 2011 at the earliest, probably more like 2012 or 2013. Chill, give it a rest. <BR/><BR/>If someday the screenplay of that movie that still has not been made yet gets published on real paper by a real book company, it won't be what his now-cancelled book was, that text is now HiSTORy, gone with the wind, ashes to ashes, pulped and shredded by his publisher.<BR/><BR/>What there might be, yes, is the screenplay text, but as you know screenplay texts are never big sellers, have you ever read a screenplay, Jarrod? So there will NOt be a lot of money coming to Herman for that book, if and when it really sees the light of day.<BR/><BR/>And that book will be labeled as fiction. As will the movie. But all these things are still to be completed in the future. Movies take a long to make. It doesn't happen overnight.<BR/><BR/>I say: relax. Let Herman be Herman. The old man has suffered enough. How much longer does he have to live? Ten, twenty years? Less? Leave him be. Let it be.<BR/><BR/>The book was stopped, the Penguin book that is. Good. That book was not well produced, and the publisher now agrees they made a bad decision.<BR/><BR/>But Herman is not going to make alot of money from any screenplay text that is published. Let it be.<BR/><BR/>This whole thing was about something much more important, and much more tragic, than money. Let us never forget. Never again. On Earth!DANIELBLOOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130493903696077379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-19146333009443186362009-01-02T21:51:00.000-05:002009-01-02T21:51:00.000-05:00I guess, Dan, considering that he sold it to anoth...I guess, Dan, considering that he sold it to another publisher who seems to have no problem with it..<BR/><BR/>It IS just about the money.<BR/><BR/>The time for it being a "little lie" is over.<BR/><BR/>I long for the days when non-fiction was actually non-fiction.<BR/><BR/>Now we have to worry about "false memories" and treat "false memories" as reality. <BR/><BR/>This whole thing is sad. It just proves that if you repeat a lie enough, it will be true just through persistence.Jeremy Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05866399188334047896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-83768389247333441342009-01-01T07:49:00.000-05:002009-01-01T07:49:00.000-05:00Jarrod,\ you ask good quetsios let me answr in cap...Jarrod,\ you ask good quetsios let me answr in caps below...... "I am curious, though. Was this a little white lie that got away, YES YES S YES .... or was this a concerted effort to profit on the Holocaust? no nO NO NO NO......Did someone actually take their story, and decide "Hmm.. this would be so much better if..."....maybe MAYBE YES.......INVESTIGATING STILL I AM....<BR/><BR/>Where did this fiction come from? What causes someone to invent such things, at the expense of others? neurOSIS neUROSIS NEUROSIS AND NEED FOR LOVE AND APPROVALOF PEERS....<BR/><BR/>I find it hard to blame him outright.. but I would like to know why he felt the need to do this. Was it just about the money? NO NO NO THIS WAS NOT FOR MONEY OR FAME...THIS WAS TO MAKE MEANING OF HIUS LIFE......IT E WAS A LITTLE LIE FOR A NESPAPER CONTEST THAT GOT CARRIED AWAY AND COULD NOT BE STOPPED UNTIL........DANIELBLOOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130493903696077379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10183882.post-79596468378503707282009-01-01T01:25:00.000-05:002009-01-01T01:25:00.000-05:00I cannot comprehend how lies serve to bring truth....I cannot comprehend how lies serve to bring truth.<BR/><BR/>Lies bring nothing but lies. Lies bring false dreams, false hopes, false ideas.<BR/><BR/>The story of the Holocaust has inspiration in survival. It has truth. It has raw, bitter, and sometimes heart wrenching truth. <BR/><BR/>It's in that truth that we should find solace. It's in the knowledge that we find those acts reprehensible that we should find solace. As a species, mankind has made many, many mistakes.. but we have done so many good things too.<BR/><BR/>Carl Sagan wrote, in his book Contact (a work of fiction, clearly), that humanity "is capable of such great dreams.. and such horrific nightmares." While that was a work of fiction, the sentiment holds true. We cannot allow what happened to millions to become tainted with lies and sugar coated. We must atone for those actions as they were. We must condemn them for what they were.<BR/><BR/>Or else, we'll never really move on. We'll always be stuck, having the same horrific nightmares.<BR/><BR/>I am curious, though. Was this a little white lie that got away, or was this a concerted effort to profit on the Holocaust? Did someone actually take their story, and decide "Hmm.. this would be so much better if..."<BR/><BR/>Where did this fiction come from? What causes someone to invent such things, at the expense of others? <BR/><BR/>I find it hard to blame him outright.. but I would like to know why he felt the need to do this. Was it just about the money?Jeremy Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05866399188334047896noreply@blogger.com