They had Sambos here in the bay area until the mid-late '90s.
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On 3/31/2019 1:26 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
We had Sambos restaurants in Oregon when I grew up.
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On Mar 31, 2019, at 9:45 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
Have they seen the original animated version? It has been kind of buried
because the depiction of the roustabouts and the jive-talking crows are
considered racist. On the other hand I always thought the lesson of the
movie was not to discriminate against a person (or elephant) because of how
they look, and that the roustabouts and crows were depicted favorably vs.
the greedy circus owners. If you can get past the controversy, it is one of
the Disney classics. As a kid I loved the sequence where the train goes
through the rain and then the elephants and roustabouts set up the circus in
the next town. I guess maybe people would also object to the grandkids
seeing Dumbo get drunk. But who can forget "pink elephants on parade"?
The reviews I have seen on the Tim Burton version have been negative, style
over substance, and with no heart.
As far as the controversy, at least not as bad as Song of the South, which I
don't believe has ever been released for home video. Not really a classic
of animation like Dumbo though. It does seem a shame that anything derived
from the Uncle Remus stories are banished now. Br'er Rabbit and his friends
came from African folk tales, and I have always thought the story about the
tar baby said a lot about human nature, although it sounds quite offensive.
Sometimes a tar baby is just a baby made out of tar.
Cleaning out a bunch of books and taking them to an annual charity book
sale, I came across a copy of Little Black Sambo. That one did not go to
the book sale, they probably would have burned it. But sometimes, watching
the U.S. Congress or the U.K. Parliament, I expect them to turn into butter.
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My grandkids hate my keyboard... security device I guess.
Saw Dumbo with them yesterday.
They seemed to like it, I thought it was pretty poor.
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