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montycrusto
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That must be The Uplift War.. I loved the Gubru, they were hilarious.. (is that a Jim Burns cover? My edition has a Tim White painting;I'm quite fond of the Uplift series myself.
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Uplifting Thoughts for the Isolated and Depressed in Times of Plague
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I haven’t kept up with artists, but none of the covers do a convincing job of showing uplifted Chimpanzees as uplifted, with enlarged craniums, upright postures, and sparse body hair.
I find this exasperating.
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montycrusto
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Indeed. And this thread is supposed to be the opposite of exasperating
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Gibbs505
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Indeed and he served the whole war!
Gibbs505
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Indeed, match wits with him at your peril!David Niven was really quick and clever.
twonines
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Especially holding it up above her head!Aww, but you look so cute in that Changi prison uniform
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Praefectus Praetorio
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James Baskett, an American actor best known for his portrayal of Uncle Remus, singing the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" in the 1946 Disney feature film Song of the South. Columnist Hedda Hopper, along with Walt Disney himself, and many journalists and personalities declared that he should receive an Academy Award for his work. Though this couldn't happen in 1946, in recognition of his portrayal of the famous black storyteller he was given an Honorary Academy Award, making him the first black male performer to receive an Oscar.
This might have been my very favorite song as a child and it always brings a smile to my face and a skip to my step.
This might have been my very favorite song as a child and it always brings a smile to my face and a skip to my step.
My own childhood smile is tempered by my grownup knowledge of what the South as really like during the period depicted in the movie, and the time it was released.
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montycrusto
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That poor man, wandering around surrounded by hallucinations of hummingbirds and singing moles in tutus... I hope his sanity recovered eventually
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montycrusto
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My dad used to sing it to me.. one of my earliest memories
Frank Petrexa
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As did Jimmy Stewart--bombers. He is featured in the book "Big Week" (February 20-25, 1944) about the Allied campaign to destroy the Luftwaffe fighter capability in preparation for the invasion. It led him to join the Hollywood conservatives of the 1960's. He apparently had some emotional issues when he got back, and Lionel Barrymore, who worked with him in "It's a Wonderful Life", helped him out of them.
Frank Petrexa
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Too bad this film is "racially insensitive" and isn't shown anymore. It isn't bad for the standards of the time, but people (or their parents) who remember Jim Crow have justifiable qualms about it, in my opinion. It is however, a great song, and the movie has a lot of great scenes.
Frank Petrexa
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This is also racially stereotyped. It's from "Dumbo", a great song (good for kids to try to catch the doble entendres) from a great movie. A friend of mine adopted too little black girls (one and two at the time) who were seized by our state because their parents were addicts and were abusing them. I won't get "Dumbo" for them, even though it's an "uplifting" story about winning against the odds by using your own pluck, because I think it would send a bad message--better let the vicious overt racism of mid-century America that people like Jackie Robinson had to put up with lie until they are older.
Praefectus Praetorio
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montycrusto
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..and by the time she was dressed, it was the 15th century ...
Silent_Water
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On the one hand, those were also the times when fairy-tales like the Sleeping Beauty were told to the tired children after they had to undress again.
On the other hand, in those times there were no TV-serials you had to watch, no computer games to win and no useless distraction - you only had to survive tiresome wars and ugly diseases ... oh wait ...
On the other hand, in those times there were no TV-serials you had to watch, no computer games to win and no useless distraction - you only had to survive tiresome wars and ugly diseases ... oh wait ...