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Posted by Derek Janssen on 10/04/23 11:33
Kimba W. Lion wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 09:48:39 -0700, "Bratboy"
> <DontBother@Takeallthisaway.tde.com> wrote:
>
>>>They should just have Whoopi Goldberg or Kanye West introduce the film so
>>>that we can view it in its historical context.
>>
>>Whoopie I could definitly agree on for introducing it from historical
>>perspective.
>
> The OP was being sarcastic, wasn't he?
(Well, he was, given Whoopi's legendary race-paranoia, but then, we ARE
talking about the studio that's kept Whoopi as a personal pet ever since
they thought we liked "Sister Act"...)
> I mean, nobody actually takes
> Whoopi & company seriously, do they? That's why on the Looney Tunes DVDs
(Which, ironically, haven't even *had* any black-depiction toons yet,
and only originally put the disclaimers on for the German/Japanese WWII
toons...)
> they FORCE you to sit through her apology for the dark ages of mankind,
> isn't it?
Actually, as noted in the JHM article (which I guess NOBODY READ!!),
Disney *is* trying to go for the "Historical Context" angle, which's how
we originally got that animated "John Henry" short which was going to
show with the '96 revival that never happened--
Back then, James Earl Jones was tapped to do the "Joel Chandler Harris
is a rich black-cultural-legacy" bit, but supposedly they're now back to
square one, and using Bill Cosby suddenly doesn't sound as hot an idea
as it did a couple years ago....
Derek Janssen (look, do I have to post the link again?...Do I??)
djanss@charter.net
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