Memphis Orpheum will no longer show "Gone with the Wind"
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I want off this ride. Wonder if we can stop showing, "White Men Can't Jump.".
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Yep, the movie that produced the very first African American Oscar winner is now banned. Whatever message these people are trying to convey is getting lost in all this stupidity.
I recently asked a black friend of mine who lived through that time frame what he thought of "Blazing Saddles" the first time he ever saw it.
He said it was the funniest damned thing he'd ever seen in his life.
Related story: there's a medical condition that was known for many decades as "Wegener's granulomatosis." It describes a particular kind of inflammation within the walls of blood vessels, and has various effects throughout the body. In 2006, it came to light that Wegener was affiliated with the Nazi regime during their occupation of Poland and his name had been forwarded to the UN War Crimes Commission. Given widespread questioning of his professional conduct, the illness was immediately renamed "granulomatosis with polyangiitis," and reference to his name was struck from medical texts.
I have to say I thought it was a dumb movie. OTOH, my SIL (from Oxford, MS) has seen it countless times. And believes it...
I didn't care for the movie, either, and I was forced to watch it in the eighth grade.....but it beat actually having history class for a few days (though I liked history and would have preferred no math or something else)
If we are going to be consistent, instead of just renaming the disease we should eradicate...wait...my point will come to me in a second.
We were Freshman in highschool, the entire freshman class was bused the Gateway Rocking Chair Theater in Decatur to watch GWTW. Needless to say that is my favorite part of the movie.
Oh and the best thing to come from Memphis is the ribs from Rendezvous.
Mine, too, although I wonder if Gary Cooper, who was offered the gig of Rhett in the original before Gable got it....wonder if he ever regretted it, as he predicted it would be a colossal flop....
The first time I saw part of GWTW was February 11, 1979 (the other networks were running "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which is NOT about the Trump administration, and the Kurt Russell "Elvis" movie).
My parents talked me into watching it and told me they were going to burn Atlanta. Remember, I'm nine years old. So I sit down watching this and the first night they get to the part where they burn Atlanta.......I was so disappointed to not see whatever stadium the Braves must have used BEFORE they were in Fulton County Stadium since it obviously would have been burned down...(I told you....I was nine).
I didn't tune in for the rest of it, either, I was so disappointed.
My parents talked me into watching it and told me they were going to burn Atlanta. Remember, I'm nine years old. So I sit down watching this and the first night they get to the part where they burn Atlanta.......I was so disappointed to not see whatever stadium the Braves must have used BEFORE they were in Fulton County Stadium since it obviously would have been burned down...(I told you....I was nine).
I didn't tune in for the rest of it, either, I was so disappointed.
I have seen bits and pieces of it but never from start to finish. I couldn't even give you a decent plot summary.
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