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Posted by Curtin/Dobbs on 09/25/45 11:33
"Derek Janssen" <djanss@nospam.charter.net> wrote in message
news:VvKjf.9470$7p7.5054@fe06.lga...
> 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
Is "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves" on DVD, yet? The introduction on that
would last longer than the actual cartoon, itself. The "danger" with "Coal
Black...," and some other product, is that even though one can be sensitive
to and cognizant of the fact that it traffics in stereotypes, it's still a
funny and artistically inventive cartoon. What to do?
....Curtin/Dobbs
,
> 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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