Word: gardner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slow, sly, shuffling Negro. Meanwhile, the industry mostly ignored Paul Robeson (too strong, too smart, too sexy, too damned uppity) and denied Lena Horne her best potential movie roles, as the mulatto heroines of Pinky and Show Boat, handing the parts instead to Jeanne Crain and Ava Gardner. It was not until the rise to stardom of Sidney Poitier in the 1950s that blacks had a bankable movie hero. "To this day," argues Film Historian Donald Bogle, "Poitier remains the most important black actor. The image he presented made white audiences take black Americans seriously, at least while they...
ABOUT TWO WEEKS ago, many Seattlites received a political plea for support on behalf of Booth Gardner a Democrat hopeful for the governor hip. This short note, courteously addressed. "Dear Friend of Senator Jackson,' stated that the Senator had originally "encouraged" Gardner to run, and was fully behind his assault on the Governor's chair. This endorsement was highly unusual; Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson was never one to become overly involved in local election, the more so after his death more than a year...
...what was this? Direct Mail from the Great Beyond? An exhortation exhumed with Jackson's bodily remains? Unfortunately, the truth is not quite so tasteful. Two former members of Jackson's staff saw fit to lend their defunct chief's name and memory to the hard-pressed Gardner, perhaps with the hope of rectifying their unemployment caused by Jackson's untimely demise. Men of former eras might have been deterred by their awe of the dead; but with luck the Senator's spirit was still a true Democrat at heart...
...anyone needs the extra lustre Jackson's name carries, it is Gardner. A man who has admitted to reporters that he began his campaign horribly, lacking the name recognition of his opponent Jim McDermott, Gardner has been forced to run a media-heavy campaign financed largely by his limited personal wealth...
Jackson's "Endorsement From the Grave" is the logical extension of the gap between appearance and the reality. Jackson, were he alive today, might well have supported Gardner's candidacy. Then again, he might not have. Jackson cannot vote for Gardner; his alleged posthumous support carries no weight. However, by leeching part of the public's respect for Jackson, by trying to seize a piece of Jackson's image and make it his own, Gardner has displayed just how far the image has come in its long-standing battle with substance in our political process...