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To: Ellesu
If you really want to see an entertaining movie of the "Old South" buy the DVD/VHS of Swanee River. Based on the life of Stephan Foster.

If you are a Jolson fan like me you'll especially enjoy it. Jolson plays E. P. Christy in "Black Face".

Jolson was billed as the "Worlds Greatest Entertainer". And he doesn't dissappoint.

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105 posted on 03/25/2007 9:58:19 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Fake but Accurate": NY Times)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
Stephen Collins Foster was actually very pro-Black, which is why he celebrated their culture in his songs (despite his reputation as a "south-o-phile."

Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the song Dixie as a minstrel song, later regretted writing it because it had become "an anthem of treason."

Larry Parks, who played Jolson in The Jolson Story, was a blacklisted Communist. Looks like he's been blacklisted again!

110 posted on 03/25/2007 10:12:36 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Hinneh, 'Anokhi sholeach lakhem 'et 'Eliyyah HaNavi'; lifnei bo' Yom HaShem HaGadol veHaNora'.)
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