Did you know that only one other person has ever won both a Nobel and an Oscar?

[sinkingfeeling]

It was Irish playwright, George B. Shaw!!

[book_worm]

1. Why can't a woman be more like a man!

[Demeter]

4. Because the Human Race Would Die Out From Incompetence

[Javaman]

6. ....

:rofl:

True, but there would be lot's of beer and pretzels around LOL

[REP]

16. "If Sweet were like Higgins, he would have set the Thames on fire"

from the preface to Pygmalion, on Professor Sweet ("Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer"), on whom Henry Higgins was modelled.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

2. But only one

person has won the Oscar,Nobel & an Emmy ---- President Al Gore.

[shraby]

3. Don't you mean the Oscar, Nobel,

Emmy AND Presidency?

[flordehinojos]

5. Darn Right ! Yes!

[cmkramer]

15. Al Gore did not win the Oscar

The Oscar for Best Documentary goes to the producer. Al Gore was the narrator of the movie, but he was not a producer.

[Cetacea]

7. I do know of the only one to get two Nobels: Linus Pauling

But that is a topic for another day. Congratulations President Gore!!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. I think that's the only person to get 2 Nobels on their own.

He got Chemistry, and Peace. Others, like Marie Curie, have been jointly awarded prizes twice. From Wikipedia (if you trust that - normally OK on things like this, because people can look it up and correct it easily)

Pauling received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 for his campaign against above-ground nuclear testing, and is the only person to win two Nobel prizes that were not shared with another recipient. The other people who have received two Nobel prizes are Marie Curie (physics and chemistry), John Bardeen (both in physics) and Frederick Sanger (both in chemistry).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling

[Cetacea]

9. You ar correct. Thank you! n/t

[lonestarnot]

10. Damn! Those fight'n Irish!

:toast:

[Tizzy]

11. Al didn't win the Oscar.....

The director of An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim, won the Oscar not Gore... By the Academy rules the Oscar for best documentary goes to the Director of that documentary, not the star/narrator. (I'm not being Anti-Gore, just pointing out something that people don't seem to realize)... Also Oscars are kind of meaningless anyways, seeing how a lot of the films that win are mediocre/bad, and they really aren't about the best of said year... Otherwise people like Bergman, Tarkovsky, Fellini, Kubrick, Lynch, Hitchcock, ect. would have won best directors awards... But they didn't/haven't, while people like Ron Howard have :puke:

[Cha]

12. In reverse sequence...I hear G B Shaw was a

Vegetarian, too! :)
"Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay. ~George Bernard Shaw"

http://www.quotegarden.com/vegetarianism.html

"But the big story of the July issue of The Vegetarian Messenger was the tribute to George Bernard Shaw, celebrating his 90th birthday on the 26th of that month. He had, at that time, been a vegetarian for 66 years and was commended as one of the great thinkers and dramatists of his era. "No writer since Shakespearean times has produced such a wealth of dramatic literature, so superb in expression, so deep in thought and with such dramatic possibilities as Shaw." The writer was a staunch vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist and opponent of cruel sports."

http://www.ivu.org/history/shaw/

I'm not posting this because I hope or think anyone will go out and become a vegetarian..it's just 411. :P

[REP]

14. Ethical Vegetarian

I think that if he lived now, he'd be a vegan. He wrote often that his vegetarianism was motivated by a love of animals, but he was a beekeeper - different age, different understandings. He also ate eggs, milk and cheese.

He was also an early proponent of gay rights.

[Cha]

17. I'm secretly hoping

Al Gore follows even further in footsteps~~ G B Shaw was quite the Chap!

[REP]

13. I knew that; Shaw is my hero

He was wrong about a few things, but right about so much more, including women's and gay rights.