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Re: Death of actors



On 10/14/06, Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Greetings Economists,
Does this mean we can give oscars to everyone so they live four years
longer?
On Oct 14, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Jim Devine wrote:

> "people who win Oscars live 4 years longer than people who are
> nominated but fail to win."

that'd be nice, but then the Oscars would mean even less than they do now, even to the actors (etc.) The Academy Awards are in many ways a popularity contest.


-- Jim Devine / "To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." -- Nuremberg Tribunal



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