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Enjoyed looking through this thread and the pix again.
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Jul 22, 2014 - 2:44 PM
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Ron Pulliam
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There were far more actors involved in Civil Rights than Heston, Brando, Garner and Franciosa.....Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, for instance.
Among celebrities, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, and Bob Dylan....
And, of course, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Sammy Davis, Jr., Odette, and, from France, Josephine Baker came over to the U.S.
Interestingly, the late-in-life Conservative Chuck Heston had campaigned for Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy in their presidential bids in the 50s/60s.
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Dear Bill,
I don't know what ax you've got to grind against Joan Baez, but we in the arts should all be so lucky as to "disperse" as many crowds as she has over the years, record as many albums, fill as many concert halls, and stand up for as many causes she believed in.
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I finally caught up with "42" a few weeks ago, and was very moved by it. But then, I'll always feel a sentimental attachment to the Robinsons, my former neighbors down the street on Cascade Road in North Stamford, Connecticut.
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no ax, preston old buddy, just found her voice grating and probably forced to listen to too many playings in assembly at school in the Uk of her Blowing in the wind - we had a hippy teacher who would haven taken us all to san francisco in a flower power volkswagon van given half the chance!
that said in later years i did respect her performance on the sacco and vanzetti soundtrack for morricone.
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Ah, film music -- the Great Uniter!
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