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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LOL!
These stereotypes of southern people being inbred and ignorant just make me sick. Its just not true! I have lived up north out west and down south. The southern people are the best people in the world. They are not uneducated boobs like they are portrayed to be. Billy Ray Cyrus had a special on TV about the Applachian Mountain people that everyone should see. I understand the stereotype came from some big city liberal who came to the Smokey Mountains in the early part of the last century to do a documentary about the mountain people and because the mountain people were a close knit group, they were suspicious of him. Of course he probably came on like a stupid liberal and got their backs up right away. Anyway the story goes that their unacceptance of him so enraged the liberal that he wrote a book depicting the mountain people in a bad light and since there wasn’t a whole lot of travel back in those days, especially to remote rigions like the Smokey Mountains, the book was widely read and accepted as fact. And the stereotype was born and thrives to this day. Just senseless!
No, it’s Billy Redden. Go here:
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0714681/bio
A quote out of the link:
“At the age of 16, this boy from Rabun County, Georgia, was the only “authentic” local to play the role of The Banjo Boy in John Boorman’s disturbing hit movie Deliverance (1972). He was hand-picked from his local elementary school, largely due to his “look” (his large head, skinny body, odd-shaped eyes and moronic grin had sadly branded him a poster-child for inbreeding and mental deficiency).”
I think there’s pork somewhere in their family tree!
I certainly can, but then again I moved here from Pennsylvania.
Kids in West Virginia may have webbed toes but at least they know who their dad is. The most difficult thing Hollywood is keeping a marriage a secret until word of the divorce leaks out.
Chuck Yeager and Homer Hickam (”October Sky”) are from West Virginia.
That picture is a sign of the dangers of an excessive fear of inbreeding. You couldn’t be less inbred than a Kenyan muslim/Kansas whitebread communist. And yet, the result is just as bad as anything West Virginia could produce through centuries of selective inbreeding.
When my mother was in the hospital in Charleston, WV, I turned to my Dad and asked “Aren’t there any dentists in this state?”
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