[Info-vax] OT actors being treated as their screen character Was: Re: Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:21:28 +0200, MG wrote:

> On 10-8-2012 3:16, David Froble wrote:
>> Bad joke.
> 
> Actually, it was a very truthful one.  Many people didn't care about the
> occupation, life went on.
> 
> Months ago (or a few years possibly by now) a French photo exhibition
> was cancelled and 'banned', because it didn't show how "horrible life
> was back then", just people smiling and going about their daily lives.
> That didn't meet the requirements of what is usually shown in the
> novelized lecture, TV series and films, I guess.
> 

In the same vein a French colleague told me about piece of newsreel which 
was only rarely shown on French TV because it didn't paint the right 
picture.  It showed large crowds of French welcoming the Germans as they 
entered Paris.   Life has to go on and I imagine there were plenty of 
restaurants and hotels who benefited from the trade.

-- 
Paul Sture