By RM
sunday, march 8, 2026 at 6:40:00 a.m. edt
Re: Dudley Nichols. YES, a great screen writer, BUT-look at The Hurricane (1937)-classic movie, brilliantly done-BUT-what is the story? The governor of the island (Raymond Massey) is not only cruel toward the natives, but, along with his wife, is LITERALLY sterile-unable to have children-as opposed to the fecund, carefree, and happy natives-as clear a case of anti-White racism as has ever been presented in movies (at least of that era!).
Were movies EVER innocent?
-RM
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No,but I was--and mostly still am.
--GRA
HIPPIE MUSIC ARTIST,"COUNTRY JOE" MCDONALD'S STYLUS RUNS OUT OF
GROOVES TO PLAY ON--ON LIFE'S TURNTABLE --AT 84
GRA:The first album he and "the Fish" recorded in 1967 called,"Electric Music For the Mind and Body" was a classic,in my opinion. As a lover of keyboards/organ in rock music,I was blown away with their songs here--which I happily discovered about 35 years ago. I've played it hundreds of times along with the Doors.
NEW YORK (AP) — “Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and a highlight of the Woodstock music festival, died Sunday. He was 84.
McDonald, who performed with his band, Country Joe and the Fish, died in Berkeley, California. His death from complications of Parkinson’s disease was reported by Kathy McDonald, his wife of 43 years, in a statement issued by his publicist.
McDonald was a longtime presence in the Bay Area music scene, where peers included the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane and his onetime girlfriend, Janis Joplin. He wrote or co-wrote hundreds of songs, from psychedelic jams to soul-influenced rockers, and released dozens of albums. But he was known best for a talking blues he completed in less than an hour in 1965 — the year President Lyndon Johnson began sending ground forces to Vietnam — and recorded in the Berkeley home of Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz.
--GRA
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