FredCDobbs
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I have to watch the different cable news channels every now and then, because each one of them makes me mad from time to time, and also each one gives me some interesting factual news from time to time.
I'm a political centrist and I can't find any political centrist news channels. Years ago, old ABC and NBC used to be failry centrist, while CBS was liberal, but times have changed with all this cable news stuff. I think CNN is the most centrist, but sometimes it goes far out and irritates me too. Other times it's the best news channel on the air.
I notice that here on this message board, sometimes a liberal insults me and other times a conservative insults me. That's because I'm a centrist. Apparently most people are either one or the other (left or right), leaving us centrists with not many regular friends (that's why I'm hiding behind the rock with my rifle, in my avatar photo).
Does anyone else here feel that way too?
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My fifteen minutes of fame occurred with a rabid isolationist. I've always bragged about my first plane trip being with Charles Lindbergh, but after I found out about his America First speeches I did so a little less loudly. Then when I found out he'd had three families ... WELL!
Nonetheless I still tell the story.
My mother, then secretary to a congressman, was with him at the airport for some event. Lindy was giving rides to VIPs and asked if Billy wanted to go up. He said no, but maybe Peggy would like to go (my mother). She was eight months pregnant with me, but was delighted, and up we went for a little sightseeing ride around D.C. Billy was stricken with remorse after he let her go up, saying "Larry [my dad] will kill me if anything happens to her!" But we got back safely, as evidenced by the fact that here I am 86 years later. I ran into Lindbergh once in the Pentagon when I was working there but didn't say anything. Would have been fun, but if he didn't remember it it would have been embarrassing, too.
That's you?? You flew with Lindbergh??
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I agree with you. When I was in Italy the hotel had channels from various different countries. The French and Russia ones were in English. The Russia one was very interesting. It was very enlightling to see a Russian reporter interview a US State official. Talk about asking the hard questions!
Yeah. LOL. I subscribed to a Russian/Soviet "news" magazine in the 1980s, and I was amazed at what they knew about us and our government. Way more than Time and Newsweek knew. Many of their propaganda facts they were able to back up and prove through various kinds of documentation.
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It is Clara Bow Mongo
Nope, I think it's Lillian Roth.
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IMO, the worst way to watch TV news is to watch only channels you like and channels that agree with your own political point of view.
The best way to watch TV news is to watch all of the news channels, especially during controversial events. Such as Aljezzera, MSNBC, Fox, CNN, and HLN, and occasionally PBS (althought PBS news shows might put you to sleep). And then theck the major news stories on various newspaper and national news magazine websites, and also foreign journals. Sometimes you can learn a lot of new stuff by watching local news in the cities where the news is taking place. Most of the local news shows are now shown live on the internet.
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I've just finished watching Ken Burns' seven-part, fourteen-hour documentary The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. I think it's brilliant, one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.
I agree. Very good. Tells me more interesting details about the Roosevelts than I learned during my previous 70 years.
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Anxiety in the bedroom - "Rebecca"
I love your wide-screen photos. Did you make those by stitching wide pan shots together, left to right??
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I'm not sure, and it's highly possible I'm wrong, but I would bet it's a scene from The House of Rothschild (1934) It was a Fox film that starred Loretta Young and featured Boris Karloff in a small but pivotal role and earned a best picture nomination.
Yes, that's it. A great film. Funny too. Some good jokes about "income taxes".
Here see this radio spoof with Jack Benny. Click on the right arrow on the Play Radio Recording bar:
http://arlissarchives.com/2012/07/09/jack-benny-spoof-of-the-house-of-rothschild-1934-live/
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Most definitely the finest actor to never even get an Academy Award nomination ,yet alone win one. He should have had at least a half dozen nominations and won a couple of times.
I agree. One of the most overlooked actor by the Academy. I don't understand it.
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1949 all-white version of Song of the South type movie:
SO DEAR TO MY HEART
But I sho does miss uncle remus......
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Most interesting, Fred! Amazed at how you are finding some of this stuff online...
It is a large and growing movement among black story tellers and folk-story collectors to re-tell the Uncle Remus stories. The Disney film, available from a lot of sources now, has helped this movement learn about Uncle Remus and Br'er Rabbit.
A school teacher tells the story of Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby, and also the Briar Patch story.
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Anyway, as I pressed play and started watching the film, I was expecting it to be totally offensive and cringe-worthy. It is not. In fact, it is very integrated the way the black and white children get along (it seems very progressive for a motion picture produced in 1946). I thought it admirable the way the white boy played by Bobby Driscoll looks up to Uncle Remus (James Baskett) and Aunt Tempy (Hattie McDaniel). It's a beautiful film, told in the usual heart-warming classic Disney way.
A Professor credits Walt Disney and actor James Baskett for popularizing the Br’er Rabbit stories in the 20th Century in SONG OF THE SOUTH. He tells about how “Political Correctness” has now suppressed both James Baskett and the Disney movie.
Prof. Damon Fordham on the Roots of Brer Rabbit
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Give me a break! If Uncle Remus was so lovable, you could buy "Song of the South" at your friendly neighborhood Wal-Mart. Y'all need to get over the myth of the happy-go-lucky darkies of the antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
You need to get over thinking that people who tell Br’er Rabbit stories are “Darkies”. This is an offensive term to a lot of people.
They are men and women who tell folk stories that are traditional in their culture and that came from their ancestral past in the 19th Century. The Uncle Remus stories were first published in the 19th Century, and made into a famous drama and fantasy film in 1946 by the Walt Disney company. The actor who played Uncle Remus was a fine intelligent man who received a special Academy Award for his outstanding work.
See this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_the_South
“Walt Disney liked Baskett, and told his sister, Ruth Disney, that Baskett was "the best actor, I believe, to be discovered in years." Even after the film's release, Walt stayed in contact with Baskett. Disney also campaigned for Baskett to be given an Academy Award for his performance, saying that he had worked "almost wholly without direction" and had devised the characterization of Remus himself. Thanks to Disney's efforts, Baskett won an honorary Oscar in 1948. After Baskett's death, his widow wrote Disney and told him that he had been a "friend indeed and [we] certainly have been in need."
I say again, TIME HAVE CHANGED and Uncle Remus stories are becoming more famous and more popular all the time, thanks to the original 19th Century book and that 1946 Walt Disney film that is available around the world now, on the internet, on DVD, and on video tape.
I realize this modern revival of the Uncle Remus stories must burn you up and make you fume, but with widespread media the way it is today, people can think for themselves today and they can find many sources of the film. You can see some of these people in YouTube clips, even imitating Uncle Remus’ movie voice from the Disney film as they tell their own versions of the stories, while other people are happily adding to the Br’er Rabbit story tradition by making up their own new Br’er Rabbit stories.
Storyteller Diane Ferlatte, Brer Rabbit's Dance, garden story
“This is a story that came out of the mouths of slaves.....”
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The Uncle Remus character does not seem like a negative stereotype at all.
No, not at all. Seems that things have changed over the past few decades, and now Uncle Remus is a hero story-teller character that has become a well-established and lovable part of Black history in America.
The Wonderful Tar Baby Story:
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I think the implication was supposed to be that she was having an affair with both men at the same time, but while one was away from the apartment and the other was with her in the apartment.
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On my Sanyo TV, I have to change the audio Language to Spanish to get the SAP audio. It took me about 5 years to discover this.
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She likes the sex rough, and the rape "awakened" a wild side in her (ie. the "bad" girl). I suppose that today we would call what Hopkins has going with La Rue an S & M relationship.
Off hand, I can't think of another '30s (or even '40s) Hollywood product that dealt with this subject matter. Perhaps someone can correct me on this.
Yeah, and that's what makes this pre-code very "hot" in many ways. I thought both Jack and Miriam AND the director did a very good job in this film.
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I will be interested to see what Goldman's comments are about SWORD IN THE DESERT tonight. The film, made by Universal-International in Hollywood, was very controversial when released. American critics found the subject matter presented in an unbalanced fashion, and the movie was pulled in Britain due to protests and a bomb scare.
For more, read the article at the TCM database:
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/92168/Sword-in-the-Desert/articles.html
I saw SWORD IN THE DESERT on TCM about 15 years ago, and it is a very interesting movie. It is the only one I know of that shows Jewish immigrants and British Soldiers as bitter enemies, and there are some gun battles between them.
This was a rare time in Palestine when there were several international humanitarian groups sending European Jews (concentration camp survivors) to Palestine. Shortly after WW II ended, even the US government was helping do this (see the movie THE SEARCH). But just a couple of years later, the British decided to cut off the Jewish immigration. The British had ruled Palestine as a colony for many years, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire (see LAWRENCE OF ARABIA). There were the old-time Jewish Palestinians and the Arabic Palestinians who had lived in Palestine for hundreds of years and had gotten along together for generations.
Many of the immigrants were European Jews and many didn't want to go back home because the Russians and Communists had taken over their East European countries and also the Jews had a lot of bad feelings for non-Jewish Europeans who had aided the Nazis (in order to survive) during WW II.
So it is an exciting movie with a lot of new and interesting stuff in it.
Years ago I had a Jewish friend to managed to Escape from Germany with his family, around 1937 or 38, when he was about 12 years old, and they moved to Argentina. They later moved to Shanghai, and then later to Chicago. I knew the guy in San Francisco. He spoke English with a Chinese accent, since he had learned English from a Chinese teacher in Shanghai in the early 1940s.
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How long did she stay with Tigger after he murdered that kid? (which was the same day he raped her).
If she didn't like being around 'bad' people why didn't she leave the next day?
You can watch the movie on YouTube. She was with Trigger weeks, maybe months.
Back then, bad and good were very separate, so she liked the xx with Trigger and she stayed with him, and that, to her, made her a "bad" girl who could not return home.
But eventually seeing her old boyfriend Benbow again, who was in Memphis investigating the murder case, reminded her of all the good people she had left behind for the sordid world of the bordello hotel and life with Trigger.
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The extent of her relationship with Trigger and her duality is left rather mysterious. Perhaps Fred was more on the mark with his earlier comments, about the myth that that kind of girl, erm... enjoys it.
The situation doesn't arise so much today, because we have the birth control pill today and abortion clinics. Back in the old days when a lot more girls were "good", it was so much easier to be be "good" because of the great fear of pregnancy. I remember girls like Temple Drake from my high school and college years in the 1950s and into the early 60s. But by the 1970s a lot had changed, with the birth control pill and abortion clinics being available, and girls like Temple no longer had to keep saying "No, No" because of the big fear. Within a couple of decades, even modern girls' parents began to learn they were living with some boyfriend, and the issue of "good girl" "bad girl" was no longer so important anymore.
Trigger told Temple in the hotel room that he knew she would like it if it was forced upon her, which was somewhat of an old myth of the old era. What she didn't like was the lifestyle with all the "bad" people and criminals, and that's why she ultimately left Trigger. If he had been a much nicer guy after his attack and had lived among decent people, she might not have left him at all.
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There are plenty of people who sincerely enjoy SONG OF THE SOUTH and hope to see it available commercially in the U.S.
Our stolen past and suppressed American heritage comes alive again, thanks to Black Historians:
Donald Griffin - The Wonderful Tar Baby Story
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Here is a simple way to explain the problem with the movie to someone. Have them go out and talk in public like the cartoon characters do. I guarantee noses will be straightened out real quick, lol.
See this:
Akbar Imhotep Performs “The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story”
UBS = FOX? Network's prescience about the future of popular culture
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LOL, I know the feeling. I guess I need to keep a list and be careful how I reply to fellow centrists.