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To: Homer_J_Simpson

I’ll add to this Stanley Crouch’s latest column entitled, “Shut Up, Scarlett !” more about his indignant grandmother’s uproarious reaction to seeing Vivian Leigh and Butterfly McQueen’s slapfest.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-19/shut-up-scarlett


11 posted on 12/20/2009 5:09:32 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
That day, when Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett O’Hara slapped Butterfly McQueen for being what Rhett Butler called “a simple darkie,” the white audience roared with laughter. But Day-Day was appalled. Matilda Ford immediately silenced the laughing audience when she shouted with irrepressible anger, “Hit her back! You better hit that heifer back!” You couldn’t hear a peep in the theater for the rest of the movie.

Nice column. Thanks. Stanley Crouch has a good feel for popular culture.

27 posted on 12/20/2009 9:41:40 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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