2/2/2009


An irony of illusion and reality: nearly everyone can reel off the movies and actors that collected an Academy Award, but who can recall the winners of the year's Nobel and Pulitzer prizes?

7 comments:

Al DePantsdowno said...

Yeah! Somebody should do something! Uh... I think this idea has been covered about a billion times. More importantly, did you know that Mike Tomlin was a three-year starter at wide receiver at William and Mary (1990-94)?

Anonymous said...

I usually wait until they make a movie about the Nobel or Pulitzer winner, then, if the actor playing the role the Pulitzer or Nobel winner is worthy of aclaim, and only then, do I concider them noteworthy, and commit them to memory, like when Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford won the Pulitzer.

Anonymous said...

yes-- tomlin just overlapped with my time at w&m-- he's a bit younger than me.

i think i'm plagiarizing eric's sentence for my sentence tomorrow.

Al DePantsdowno said...

I did see that movie with the guy from Gladiator who played some math wiz or something who went to Princeton. Didn't he win something? I mean the Princeton guy, not the actor.

rob said...

there are like a dozen winners of both the nobel and pulitzer prizes in a given year and but 2 or 3 noteworthy oscars. how the fuck am i supposed to remember dozens of things at once? is this some kind of backhanded gladwell homage?

Dave said...

no-- it's just weird that i know a million actors and football players but couldn't tell you who invented the ipod-- maybe it's not a good enough narrative. i don't know the oscar winners OR the nobel winners-- i just write sentences.

Al DePantsdowno said...

Some better than others.

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