Posted on 02/11/2006 9:33:48 AM PST by DogByte6RER
Curiously, new monkey movie lands in middle of cultural battle
- Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, February 10, 2006
For the politically correct Bay Area parent, the "Curious George" children's books are a minefield of cultural horrors through which to tiptoe. Imperialism. Animal abuse. Bad parenting.
Puh-leeeeze, George's defenders say. They're children's books, whose charm has not dimmed -- 25 million books and countless swag sold -- even if ideas about political correctness have evolved since the first George adventure was published in 1941. Sometimes a speechless, mischievous monkey is just that -- a monkey, not a metaphor. Besides, George's tales are no more un-PC than those of that royalist warmonger, Babar.
Both camps are wondering how "Curious George," the animated movie that premieres today, will translate details of the popular series of children's books for the more heightened sensitivities of 2006.
The Curious George oeuvre was the work of the husband-and-wife team of H.A. and Margaret Rey, German Jews who escaped France with the first book's manuscript as the Nazis invaded. Most of the seven stories they wrote feature the antics of a monkey whose sweet curiosity gets him in trouble until he's rescued by the nameless Man with the Yellow Hat, George's keeper/parental figure/pal with bail money.
To some, that's the core of an unhealthy relationship.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
not!
Sambos was also one of my favorite restarants when I was growing up as a kid in Southern California.
Here are two links to one of the few remaining Sambos restarants:
http://www.santabarbara.com/dining/a_stones_throw/sambos/default.asp
http://www.santabarbara.com/dining/review_read.asp?pk_restaurant=773
"Is nothing sacred to these leftist PC jihaist bastards?"
Really. Sometimes a banana is JUST a banana.
I love Curious George and many others do as well. I sell used books, and the moment I list a Curious George, in any condition, it's sold. I'm sure many people of our generation are now buying them for their Grandkids. (I grew up in the 60's, too.)
I always thought it was so scandalous when George would like one up, LOL!
Yeah, I was also thinking the same thing about another favorite childhood book Where The Wild Things Are.
The PC leftists are America's very own Taliban...
Oh, it gets even better. Some left-wing-nuts try to make a political point out of Curious George, tying the name to Bush and NSA spying.
Man, I loved the hamburgers and french fries at Sambo's when I was a kid.
And it does look like the Creationist Nazis are here already!!
...Uncle Ronnie had Bonzo...now Cuz'n George might become forever Cur'ous...
I'm a'feared to wonder what awaits some #44 or so..
Where's PETA when they could help a Texas boy just trying to get along...
Must be the curse of Matt Lauer's G'Pa...J. Fred Muggs...
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