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Originally Posted by shreddog
While it didn’t cancel Ted Danson in 1993, it was very cringeworthy. I think that I can easily say that anyone in this age bracket (I too am in those “50’s”) knew that this was wrong in any context.
Now in the 80’s ….. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Man_(film) |
Even so, there is a difference between actually doing it in real life and portraying it or parodying it in a film.
I would think that if someone made a movie about Al Jolsson today that it would be perfectly acceptable for the lead actor to don blackface, to show things as they really were at that time.