Posted on 04/09/2014 3:52:33 PM PDT by BBell
At the age of 93, actor Mickey Rooney has passed away. As his many lengthy eulogies have made abundantly clear, his was a life of stratospheric highs and humiliating lows. He was one of the biggest stars in the world as a teen; he fell into bankruptcy and irrelevancy as an adult. He reinvented himself and rebounded. He crashed and burned. Few lives have had as many epic twists and turns, making his obituaries obsessively engrossing reading.
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Why not also blame the director Blake Edwards?
The only thing good about that movie was the theme song.
Tao Jones has a huge stick up his ass.
I liked cat.
It was just a friggen movie for gawds sake!!
I wish we could really laugh at ourselves like then.
Didn’t Tao Jones used to write under the name of Shorty Johnson?
I’m curious. Why didn’t Jones bring this up while Rooney was alive?
Pure bull. Liberals are a vicious lot. Let Rooney rest in peace.
Just for fun I looked up the contemporaneous NY Times (!) review to see what they’d say about Rooney’s offensive portrayal.
One sentence mentions him. Says something about him being “exotic.” IOW, not really either positive or negative.
Times have sure changed, and apparently so has The Times. All that aside, I thought his performance is a serious detraction from the movie, which I wasn’t all that crazy about anyway.
Tao Jones is actually Jeff Yang
I don’t know. Maybe Rooney didn’t want a big send off.
I believe Broadway dimmed the lights in his honor though.
Broadway also dims the lights for heroin addicts also
Will Hollywood ever stop portraying whites negatively ?
Al Bundy, Archie Bunker, the list goes on and on, from the beginning of movies right through to today.
Lazy, stupid, racist, childish, greedy, adulterous, drunkard, “whitebread”, prejudiced, “evil rich”, privileged, thief, hypocrite, etc., etc., etc. If you’re smart, you’re a criminal. If you’re a cop, you use excessive force. Even if a white male character is portrayed as a “good guy”, he’s got to have tons of evil, rotten, wicked traits as “baggage”. He’s a good guy, just a little deviant, or a perpetual loser, a drunk, etc.
For every “good guy”, Hollywood portrays several “bad guys”. And the “bad guys” are glorified.
Same could be said of the way white women are portrayed; mostly negatively.
In Hollywood’s eyes, everyone else is a saint, white people are the “root of all evil”.
Well, unless they jump on the “progressive” bandwagon and support socialism/communism/new world order/globalist foundations/etc., otherwise known as the Dem party. Then, in Hollywood’s eyes, they are free to commit every crime and immorality imaginable - and then some. And they’re still ok, because they’re the minions of the “elites”.
I decry these racialists. My American family of italian descent laughs at the broken English stereotypes even if it is done by a feller of German Jewish background like Chico Marx.
People need to get over themselves. Strive toward proper American English in future generations and don’t be afraid to laugh at the zips who just got off the boat.
True that. And Rooney was no saint by any means. But he had talent, something most of Broadway and Hollywood today don’t have.
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