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[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Well the criticism is drivel of the worst kind, but a portrait of
Disney is very complicated. I remember a piece in, of all places,
American Heritage, that wasn't kind and that dated from the period
right after his death.

Still, it's important to place Disney in his times, something modern
"critics" are loath to do, and for his time he was much more
mainstream than otherwise. I say this remembering my own distress at
hearing my own parents anti-Semitism and racial bigotry. It's easy to
toss rocks at the value systems of the past. Far more difficult to
hold an accurate mirror up for our own individual actions.

It will be interesting to see our our own cultures are judged 100
years from now. More humanely, I hope.

Adam

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:36:42 -0700, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
> 
> On 6/29/04 5:05 PM, "Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote:
> 
> > They don't allow any non-union shooters on the sets. The exception would 
> > be
> > someone from a publication doing an editorial piece. Friends of the 
> > producer
> > with a camera would be another exception.
> > S. Dimitrov
> > 
> " Disney projected his own sense of alienation onto "others" in Hollywood,
> namely, Jews, blacks, and union workers. In retaliation against the studio
> moguls, who were predominantly Jewish, he refused to employ Jews in
> high-level positions at his studio or as actors in his live-action 
> features.
> Not until 1969, two years after Disney's death, did a Jewish actor, Buddy
> Hackett, feature prominently in a Disney film, The Love Bug. Disney Studios
> also denied black workers even minimal opportunities, as technicians and
> support personnel."
> http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/d/dumbo.shtml
> 
> Walt had his own little rep company of actors alright.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Rabiner
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