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Disney Reportedly Concerned About Cigarette Smoking In Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ (tr)
The Playlist ^ | April 24, 2019 | Charles Barfield

Posted on 04/24/2019 3:51:51 PM PDT by EdnaMode

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To: EdnaMode
Grow up snowflakes you can't childishly deny reality or write history forever.


21 posted on 04/24/2019 4:29:01 PM PDT by drpix
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To: EdnaMode

Smoking, no, abortion, ok. The world is upside down. Poor Walt is spinning in his grave.


22 posted on 04/24/2019 4:40:14 PM PDT by Fungi
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They should have smoked pot, huh? Then that would have been peachy!


23 posted on 04/24/2019 4:43:55 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: irishjuggler

Disney to make a movie idolizing gang bangers and their concern is that youths may take up smoking.


24 posted on 04/24/2019 4:50:34 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Midwesterner53

Like supporting homosexual actitivities between film crew and underaged male actors...


25 posted on 04/24/2019 4:51:19 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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26 posted on 04/24/2019 4:53:51 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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The movie would lose something if cigarettes were replaced with lollypops. Just wouldn’t be the same.


27 posted on 04/24/2019 5:07:12 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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It would still be a crappy film denigrating the value of education though.

Here you have a film where the protagonists are shown physically bullying their Puerto Rican peers for studying in a malted shop. Studying is bad after all and evidently brawls and promiscuity are the way to succeed on the mainland.

The movie ends on a tragic note. Only one of the little sh¡theads is dead, and only one goes to jail leaving the rest of thugdom to continue preying upon serious students.

It's a crappy story of decay with snappy tunes.

Ignore the glitter and actually pay attention to the story with the music and glitter removed.

Not a fan.

28 posted on 04/24/2019 5:48:01 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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Actually, I’ve never seen West Side Story — just clips here and there over the last few decades, and we sang songs from it in high school chorus, I think. The topic never appealed to me. Sounds like I didn’t miss much.


29 posted on 04/24/2019 6:20:48 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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Or Miramax, Which Disney bought in 1993 and which released Pulp Fiction along with many other violent, cigarette filled movies.


30 posted on 04/24/2019 8:52:02 PM PDT by Crolis ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -GKC)
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Disney is a divisive, dishonest operation. It pisses on us and Trump every damn day.

Don’t patronize this corrupt corporation.

And for the ignorant, it is a proud member of the MSM cabal.


31 posted on 04/24/2019 9:38:05 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: EdnaMode

Did Spielberg’s father Arnold smoke? He turns 103 today!


32 posted on 02/06/2020 10:59:48 AM PST by Borges
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