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This week on GLoP, we're in the midst of a low level cultural revolution in which movies, tv shows, books, statues, and more are all looking at possible cancellation. So the Tom Cotton/NYT and the Bon Appétit contretemps are kicked around, then we get to Gone With The Wind. Also, were the late 60's worse than what we are going through now? Some thoughts about mothers and daughters, Rob shares his recipe for Pavlova, and Jonah needs some Irma la Douce.
John Podhoretz
Jonah Goldberg
Rob Long
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My mom got along with her mom. I suppose you could say it was 'complicated' but it was genial all the way through.
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Alaska Indians? Really? I doubt that Jonah ever heard a Gavora living in Fairbanks call them Indians.
It's "Natives" or "Alaska Natives".
Unless you refer to a particular indigenous culture (not tribe) such as the mostly Athabascan villages that surround the Fairbanks area.
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Hattie McDaniel was, of course, the first black actor win an Academy Award. Back in the spring of 1940 when the awards were handed out Hattie had a very long walk to the podium as she was confined to a table in the back of the room next to the kitchen. (The ceremony was then held at the Coconut Grove.)
After her death in 1952 her Oscar was donated to the Theater Department of Howard University. During renovations in the late 1960s it was lost. There are a lot of rumors as to its whereabouts. One theory has it that it was thrown into the Potomac river during the unrest after Martin Luther King was assassinated. Others think it has just been lost as few might not even be aware of what they're looking at because before the war the Best Supporting Actor and Actress Awards was not the traditional statues but plaques. (World War II changed that. Because of material shortages the statues were gold colored spray-painted Plaster of Paris replicas and carried the promise of replacement with the real thing as soon as possible after the war.) Howard officials today can't even be certain it was actually in their possession since they say a record doesn't exist for it.
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Mammy was a very admirable character. She was dealt a bad hand at birth, but makes the best of it. She works to uphold the standards of society when many of the higher born fail.
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Man, nice show, and I’m now so old I remember when a George Clooney bragged about Hollywood’s Oscar recognition of Hattie McDaniel. I’m surprised Pod or RL didn’t recall that too. Bravo.
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