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Illustration by Joe Ciardiello. In the midst of the Great Depression, a series of ghostly and mysterious thefts flummoxed the Los Angeles Police Department. In November of 1931, $11,000 went missing from a safe at the Owl Drug Company, with no sign of breaking and entering. Then a safe was emptied in a nearby clothing store. Over the next few months, blankets, typewriters, and other items disappeared from stores in the neighborhood without a trace.1 Books in Review By Richard Wright The police had no witnesses, no leads, no suspects, and no idea what was going on until the following winter, nearly a year and a half later. In February of 1933, they surveilled a store for nine nights straight. On the final evening, an officer saw an arm emerge from a small hole in the floor and reach for the lock on a nearby trapdoor. The officer tried to grab it, but the phantom limb pulled back just in time and vanished underground. The police decided to search the basement an ....
The suppressed 1951 film version of Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son was released in virtual cinemas recently in a restoration presented by Kino Lorber in association with the Library of Congress, Fernando Martín Peña, and Argentina Sono Film. The film was also aired by Turner Classic Movies (TCM) this past weekend. Shot primarily in Buenos Aires, Argentina with some exterior location shots done in Chicago, the movie was directed and co-written by Pierre Chenal, a Belgian-born director associated with French poetic realism. Richard Wright in Native Son (1951) In addition to co-adapting his own novel for the screen, Richard Wright performed the lead role as the ill-fated Bigger Thomas, a poor young black man in Chicago. Deeply oppressed and driven by intense fear, Bigger quickly becomes ensnared in a true American tragedy. ....
One of the Most Evil and Insidious Movies Ever Made Tortilla Flat is one of the most evil and insidious movies ever made. The screenplay was drafted from John Steinbeck’s acclaimed novel. The subversive film is an unabashed celebration of anti-bourgeois or “underclass values” and behaviors such as improvidence, hedonism, purposelessness, promiscuity, immediate self-gratification of needs or wants, and capricious spontaneity or irresponsibility. The central theme of the movie is a relentless attack or denigration of property, how property ownership corrupts and destroys one’s soul. Property ownership, stable employment in productive work, marriage, punctuality, thrift, foresight, deferred self-gratification of needs or wants, and self-discipline are the destructive middle class values under constant assault. This is one of Spenser Tracy’s greatest roles as Pilon, the seductive manipulator of everyone he meets for his own nefarious, greedy and selfish ends. H ....
Time magazine and Ibram X. Kendi promote a race-obsessed, money-hungry “Black Renaissance” The latest edition of Time magazine asserts that the United States is witnessing a “Black Renaissance” in the arts. The front cover carries a photo of Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old African-American Harvard graduate and former National Youth Poet Laureate who delivered her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of President Joe Biden on January 20. Amanda Gorman recites her inaugural poem, The Hill We Climb, during the 59th Presidential Inauguration ceremony in Washington, Jan. 20, 2021. (DOD Photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Carlos M. Vazquez II) The “renaissance” celebrated here is largely an unappetizing media concoction, aimed at increasing the cash flow and elevating the profiles of a number of figures whose work has little to do with shedding light on our life and times. No important cultural development could come out of such a foul celebra ....
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