Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/24

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Subject: [Leica] Babes in blackface
From: pswango at att.net (Phil Swango)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:16:00 -0700

Vince Passaro wrote:
There was a fascinating article (either in The New Yorker or, less likely
but possible, The New York Reivew of Books, somewhere in the last decaide,
on Steppin Fetchit, his career, political implications, the whole milieu of
black entertainers and african americans in hollywood in the 30s and 40s.
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Vince, you may be thinking of a recent play based on the (real life)
friendship between Stepin Fetchit and Mohammed Ali, reviewed in the NYT last
month:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/theater/reviews/19fetch.html?8dpc
<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/theater/reviews/19fetch.html?8dpc>

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