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Louis Begley's first novel, Wartime Lies, drew on his childhood as a Polish Jew who escaped the Nazi death camps by living as a Gentile. Assimilating to survive is quite different from assimilating to succeed. Begley did both. After the war, he emigrated to the U.S., went to Harvard and prospered as a Manhattan lawyer before turning to fiction. The Man Who Was Late follows his first book by less than two years, suggesting that Begley, nearing 60, has undertaken a literary career with some urgency...
...even made Black cast movies of their own (i.e. MGM's "Cabin in the Sky" (1943) directed by Vincent Minelli and starring Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne and Ethel Waters)--so the independent race movie makers were squeezed out of the market, unable to compete with the slickness and polish of higher budget Hollywood films...
...been here for more than a century, working in coal mines and building railroads, implying that they deserve--by dint of this contribution--the recognition of their own cultural spaces. They are right, to an extent, but they deserve no more than the descendants of Jewish, Italian, Irish, German, Polish, and West Indian immigrants. All of these groups are properly viewed as inextricable parts of American history, not as distinct histories in themselves. The line--sometimes literally a line--that has separated Blacks from the rest of Americans has been clear throughout American history. There is no such enduring political...
Perversely, some Latino and Asian American activists want such a line drawn, often operating on the same vulgar assumption held by the racists they oppose, which is that "ethnic" is the opposite of "white." What else does the phrase, "people of color," mean, except that Jewish, Italian, Irish, German, Polish, and other "people without color" are not "ethnic" groups in the politically correct sense? Ethnic Studies proponents begin and end with the principle of exclusion: Since Latino history is excluded from American history courses, let's make a history course that deals exclusively with Latino history! What some Latino...
Remember: Some Stars Are Worth the Paycheck. He broods, suicidally, about his blindness. He snarls orders like the Army lieutenant colonel he once was. He pretends to a worldliness that is not entirely authentic, and he can't quite hide the arrested adolescent lurking beneath his spit, polish and bluster. Frank Slade is a piece of work, all right, and playing him Al Pacino is always an actor acting -- in love with his own prodigious technique. For which, thank heaven, it permits him to range boldly outside the conventional lines of Bo Goldman's script for Scent of a Woman...