Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene in which Walt Disney calls for the extermination of Blacks. Disney's gruesome speech combines echoes of Pinocchio, Martin Luther King Jr. and the KKK: "I wished upon a star--that one day wondrous shopping mall, beneath the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slave owners would dine on the sons of former salves, secure in the knowledge that their silverware was safe from theft...
Laws condemning "baby-selling" only increase the surrogate mother's dilemma: paradoxically, while the courts often view her as a selfish contract-breaker when she sues for some type of parental rights, this new law also condemns her as a selfish slave-trader when she consents to be compensated for the child's loss...
...four sorceresses are splendid: Plowright in high Lady Bracknell form, accommodating herself to happiness; Walker, sensationally poised and pretty, radiating a soigne sexiness; Richardson (Dance with a Stranger) as a sad Madonna doomed to fidelity; and Lawrence, a TV comedy star, as a liberated slave gaily savoring her freedom...
...Sheffield (who wrote many of Murphy's SNL bits, plus Coming to America) were inspired by Annie Hall (which Murphy has seen five times) and by the screwball love stories of '30s Hollywood. So the movie offers an Eddie role reversal: the famous ladies' man is a demure love slave to Robin Givens' sexually dominating boss. Like a smitten girl, he sits by the phone, head to it, waiting for it to ring. He's miffed when she's late for a date. After sex, he says, "You make me feel dirty" and "I'm calling my mother." It makes...
...races, perhaps by banishing blacks, with reparations, to Africa. "They'll never have justice in a white society," he says of blacks. "After all, they were brought over here against their will, which certainly was a benefit to them, much more a great benefit to them than to the slave owners. It put a burden...