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David Boyum at number two did not have such an easy time, however. Princeton's Christian Griffith had two match points in the fourth game, but Boyum held on and won in five...
...Griffith played the match of his life," Fish said. "But David held him off like...
Your story on black actors [CINEMA, Oct. 1] suggests that D.W. Griffith purposely avoided using blacks in Birth of a Nation. As evidence you cite the fact that the major Negro roles were all played by whites in blackface. The reason is that in 1915 there were no black actors in Hollywood experienced enough to play these parts. In the interest of realism, Griffith would have hired them if he could have found them...
...history indicates, it could be worse, and it has been. In D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915), the major Negro roles were played by whites in blackface. Hollywood's first black star, Stepin Fetchit, fitted the stereotype of the 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...
...rootlessness and petty crime, and by a blind man (John Malkovich) whom she redeems from bitterness. As these archetypes of disenfranchisement assemble in her kitchen, a bonding of proletarian fiction and gaslit theater takes place. And a wary customer may be forgiven for wondering if the shades of D.W. Griffith and John Steinbeck are warring for possession of Writer-Director Robert Benton's soul...