Sunday, January 22, 2006

Courtly Fiction

January 22, 2006 -- "A DIVISION I college basketball program is not the sort of enterprise easily confused with a seminary or a seminar on ethics. But according to what is currently America's most popular movie, 40 years ago one such program became a nation-shaking, history-shaping moral force. The movie, although not too noble to palter with facts, is no more parsimonious with the truth than movies often are when turning history into entertainment."

I am trying to figure out why George Will decided to comment upon this awful movie. He's not a film critic, nor the critic-at-large type, but I suppose he does have enough of an interest in sports to bring this fictional flimflam above the radar. It is chockerblock with racial lies and stereotypes, and I am not going to say racial tensions and bigotry's weren't widespread in those days, but what the movie said happened to some of those players never happened. But uber-liberal Hollywood is never averse to lying when pontificating about a genuine or perceived injustice, so I expected nothing less. That's what makes news, the man bites dog scenario and not the Hollywood makes things up as they go along one.

I guess it bothered George enough for him to offer the truth of the matter, and will admit to disrembering that not everyone was around back then and the ones that weren't might very well believe this crap.

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