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West Virginia boils at 'inbred' epithet; movie casting director fired
Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^
| David Brown & Mike Wereschagin
Posted on 02/27/2008 8:21:05 AM PST by Salena Zito
West Virginia boils at 'inbred' epithet; movie casting director fired By David M. Brown and Mike Wereschagin TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The producers of the horror thriller "Shelter" have fired the Pittsburgh casting director who outraged West Virginians by publically seeking odd-looking -- even physically deformed -- people to portray residents of a West Virginia "holler." The reaction from West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin and others was swift after a story appeared in the Tribune-Review with a comment from Donna Belajac Casting of Pittsburgh indicating the script for a movie being shot here needs actors with an inbred look for scenes in that state.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: hollyweird; hollywood; inbred; liberalbigots; pittsburgh; racism; rural; southernstereotype; therobertcbyrdstate; westvirginia; wv
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To: SoldierDad
Such it has always been...
To: the_devils_advocate_666
Thems folks gots the Web Hubble ears and lips.
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posted on
02/27/2008 8:36:22 AM PST
by
politicalwit
(AKA... A Tradition Continues...Now a Hoosier Freeper)
To: Tijeras_Slim; martin_fierro
WTFIIWWV?
To: dangus
I’m glad to not be in a position where someone above me would get away with blaming me for their muck-up.
24
posted on
02/27/2008 8:37:23 AM PST
by
SoldierDad
(Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
To: USS Alaska
If you get off the main roads and go back into some very small towns and hollows, the family tree is a straight line. You were able to ascertain this by driving through?
Wow! You're amazing!
Tell me, which finger am I holding up?
25
posted on
02/27/2008 8:40:35 AM PST
by
cowboyway
("No damn man kills me and lives." -- Nathan Bedford Forrest)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
I have never watched the show, but are these participants in "American Idol"?
To: meandog; Temple Owl
Q: How do we know the toothbrush was invented in W. Va.? A: Because if it were invented elsewhere it would be called teethbrush! Folks in Philadelphia make the same joke about a neighborhood called Kensington.
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posted on
02/27/2008 8:42:18 AM PST
by
Clemenza
(I live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Wrecks)
To: Salena Zito
I think Ms. Belajac thought she was being funny...and was blindsided by the firestorm. That and she got the movie a boat load of free publicity :)
28
posted on
02/27/2008 8:42:20 AM PST
by
PennsylvaniaMom
(Michelle Obama: this seasons Teresa Heinz.)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
WTF, those guys are better looking than I am. (8^)
29
posted on
02/27/2008 8:42:29 AM PST
by
Hacklehead
(Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
To: Huntress
I didn’t know Joe Scarborough could play banjo! He should do that on his show. Might pick up 3 more viewers or so.
To: Salena Zito
Cousins are for practice only.
31
posted on
02/27/2008 8:43:32 AM PST
by
Niteranger68
(Where are they hiding Obama’s white half?)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
That looks like two failed attempts to clone Thomas Hayden Church.
32
posted on
02/27/2008 8:44:00 AM PST
by
domenad
(In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
To: purpleraine
Well, I grew up in a Appalachian mountain "holler" and there certainly weren't any "holler witches" or "other-worldly" looking girls there, just a few local boys slipping back there to make out with their hot girlfirends, drink beer, or smoke some dope.
Me and my high school buddies used to camp out on top of a mountain at an old moonshine still pit, that sat next to an old deserted cabin. The only "horrors" we had to watch out for were packs of feral dogs and an occasional bobcat or timber rattler. But we had our Winchester, Remington, and Mossberg walking sticks with us and were prepared to deal with those critters if they decided to try and make a meal out of us.
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posted on
02/27/2008 8:44:10 AM PST
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
To: Condor51
You forgot your sarcasm tag.
34
posted on
02/27/2008 8:45:36 AM PST
by
beckysueb
(Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
To: Huntress
35
posted on
02/27/2008 8:48:08 AM PST
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
To: Salena Zito
Keith Olbermann has 6 vertebrae; he’s probably available.
36
posted on
02/27/2008 8:49:28 AM PST
by
Greg F
(Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
Comment #37 Removed by Moderator
To: the_devils_advocate_666
Family
Family tree
38
posted on
02/27/2008 8:50:21 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
To: ping jockey
Are you sure about that..per my post #35?
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posted on
02/27/2008 8:52:26 AM PST
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
To: Salena Zito
where oh where are you tonight?
why did you leave me heare all alone?
I searched the world over and thought I found true love
you met another
and pfft! you was gone!
40
posted on
02/27/2008 8:55:38 AM PST
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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