Hollywood gone off the deep end.

[Anonymous]

PC in Hollywood gone haywire:
1) A Black Kojak? How do they explain his Greek ancestry.

2) Walking Tall with the Rock? This one is even a bigger travesty since walking tall is based on the life of Buford Prusser.

3) Robin Hood with a Black Moor as one of the merry men? Do you know what they would have done to a Muslim in England during the 1200's?

Can you imagine the uproar from the assholes if thay had Done Shaft 2 with Sylvester Stallone?

I don't have a problem with Black actors; shoot, I've enjoyed all those Superfly, C. Brown, and Shaft movies, but don't you get a feeling that Hollywood is kind of over doing it a "little bit".
What next? "Rev" Louis Farrakunt will be playing an Imperial Wizard?
:-)

[Anonymous]

This board has gone off the deep end with all these guests. Enough already!!!! :x

[DiscoMan]

Hollywood is now Hollywierd. Look at the communist utopias California and Massachusetts have become...

[paul]

Originally Posted by Another Guest

PC in Hollywood gone haywire:
1) A Black Kojak? How do they explain his Greek ancestry.

2) Walking Tall with the Rock? This one is even a bigger travesty since walking tall is based on the life of Buford Prusser.

3) Robin Hood with a Black Moor as one of the merry men? Do you know what they would have done to a Muslim in England during the 1200's?

Can you imagine the uproar from the assholes if thay had Done Shaft 2 with Sylvester Stallone?

I don't have a problem with Black actors; shoot, I've enjoyed all those Superfly, C. Brown, and Shaft movies, but don't you get a feeling that Hollywood is kind of over doing it a "little bit".
What next? "Rev" Louis Farrakunt will be playing an Imperial Wizard?
:-)

1- I like Kojak. I like Ving Rhames even more. The fact that he has a Greek last name is no more an issue than him having an anglo last name that many African-Americans have.

2- Hollywood poetic license. When they made a TV movie about Watergate, a key figure who was the security gaurd was played by a white man. In real life that man was African-American. He was the one who saw the criminal activity in the hotel.
Don't even get me started on the mythical character Jesus. He is always portrayed as a Northern European born on the Arabian peninsula?
3- Umm, I thought the Moors were dominant figures during that time period in Europe.

Speaking of Stallone, when was the last time a Black heavyweight lost?
Let's take the blinders off before we go down this road! 8)

[paul]

Originally Posted by DiscoMan

Hollywood is now Hollywierd. Look at the communist utopias California and Massachusetts have become...

Well, these states in general are better places to live than some of red states. Have you been to Louisiana or Kansas lately. They're are ready to dump learnin' science.

[Bernie]

Originally Posted by paul

3- Umm, I thought the Moors were dominant figures during that time period in Europe.

During the life of Jesus? No, I believe it was from the 800 AD to the time Columbus set sail and then only on the Iberian peninsula, but a good point about how Jesus is portrayed as being white seeing as he was Jewish.

[paul]

Hey Bernie. I guess I should have been more clear. 8)
I was referring to the time period given by the "guest." The guest mentioned the period around 1200.

[dj phillip esparza]

ving being kojack didn't really bother me.nobody could have done it just as telly did.i like the show and can't wait to see the second episode. :o