Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I don't like to waste my money on things that just sit in one spot.<< Huh. My parents said the same thing about me.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Who really gives a rat's rear about anything an actor/actress says? Must be a California thing...
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "Huh. My parents said the same thing about me." LOL When do we get a trip report K2 from your recent DL TRIP!?
Originally Posted By Tikiduck One thing about Walt, he did fire Tommy Kirk for being gay. That's something very few people hear about.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>One thing about Walt, he did fire Tommy Kirk for being gay.<< Another sadly not surprising thing for that era. I've never heard this, where are the details?
Originally Posted By Tikiduck I am going off memory from an article I read some years back, but the quotes were from Kirk himself. One I remember is Kirk quoting Walt as saying, "My advise to you, young man, is to start liking girls." He seemed to stress that Disney was not being so much homophobic as wanting to protect his brand, and avoid a scandal. It should be pretty easy to dig up some material on this.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>It should be pretty easy to dig up some material on this.<< Yeah, apparently I lost the ability to Google. I found it--interesting, sad, and not surprising.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "Another sadly not surprising thing for that era." Were movie/TV companies in the habit of firing people for being gay? I can see this in most industries, but the entertainment industry? Or was he too open about it? Not deep enough in the closet? Or not enough star power?
Originally Posted By FaMulan Ms. Streep should not have veered from her purpose. IMO, she tainted what should have been a good moment for Emma Thompson. She was presenting an award to Thompson, not Tom Hanks, not Walt Disney. "Saving Mr. Banks" is a movie, it is not a Documentary account of the struggle to bring "Mary Poppins" to the screen or of the author to ensure her creation isn't given short shrift.
Originally Posted By mawnck Amid Amidi, no Disney fanboy he, comes out swinging against Meryl: <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/fact-checking-meryl-streeps-disney-bashing-speech-94380.html">http://www.cartoonbrew.com/dis...380.html</a> An excerpt: >>As part of that era’s politics, name-calling was fervent (sound familiar?). Conservatives referred to liberals as Pinkos, New Dealers, and Commies. Liberals, in turn, branded conservatives, like Walt, as Fascists and anti-Semites. Labelling the MPA an anti-Semitic organization was a rhetorical tactic used by the left to attack it, and while there were surely anti-Semites in the group, it was not an inherently anti-Semitic organization nor was that Walt’s reason for being involved in the group.<<
Originally Posted By leemac <<Amid Amidi, no Disney fanboy he, comes out swinging against Meryl:>> Although he is always happy to take a paycheck from Mickey.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance “And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company’s policies, a gender bigot.” I'm sure this has been said a million times over, but gee, talk about singling one person out and blaming them for the complete normal practice for that era.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance What do you expect Yookeroo, you can't even change a garbage can at Disneyland without everyone around here worrying how offended Walt would be. Now someone is verbally slandering our fantasy daddy!
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Although he is always happy to take a paycheck from Mickey.<< Well, aren't we all? (In theory, in my case.)
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "What do you expect Yookeroo, you can't even change a garbage can at Disneyland without everyone around here worrying how offended Walt would be. Now someone is verbally slandering our fantasy daddy!" True. And now I'm spending even more words complaining about how many words are being spent on this.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>Amid Amidi, no Disney fanboy he, comes out swinging against Meryl<< I've had it with you people attacking these so-called Walt "myths." You're just trying to get on his good side for when his cryogenically frozen head is reattached to his body.
