Posted on 07/16/2009 3:52:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
You know, that's always been my attitude towards use of the "N" word. It does not apply to decent, regular folks, just to those who've earned the designation through their behavior.
Probably something I should lose, but the old dogs/new tricks thing applies.
What on earth does that story that you linked to on Obama and Sotomayor have to do with anything on this thread?
He was also Jewish.
I recall a joke by Sammy about a bigot or Klan type saying something like "get him- he's all of 'em"!
David Daniel Kaminsky
AKA Danny Kaye
Samuel George "Sammy" Davis, Jr. was born in New York City, New York to Elvera Sanchez (1905-2000), a tap dancer, and Sammy Davis, Sr. (1900-1988), an African-American entertainer. During his lifetime, Davis, Jr. stated that his mother was Puerto Rican and born in San Juan; however, in the 2003 biography In Black and White, author Wil Haygood writes that Davis, Jr.'s mother was born in New York City to Cuban American parents, and that Davis, Jr. claimed he was Puerto Rican because he feared anti-Cuban backlash would hurt his record sales.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Davis,_Jr.
But, you left out the fact that Elvis was forbidden by many parents. And, that kids did not have buying power in the 50’s.
My brother's biggest regret in life was that he was born after Davis died.
Davis really was a genius.
Leonardo Di Caprio is 35. When Charlton Heston was 28 he played Moses.
Times have changed.
Lol! One can hardly compare what Elvis did on stage to what Jackson did.
ie:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2293792/posts?page=29#29
He absolutely was!
He was excellent at whatever it was he did. I really enjoyed him with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and other members of the Rat Pack but the thing about Sammy Davis I'll always remember was a show he did at one of the casinos in South Lake Tahoe in the 70's.
A group of us went to it and he was wonderful. He did the approx. 2 hour show solo, there wasn't another soul in it and he had the crowd on the edge of our seats it was so good. He did a little of everything and was terrific, I believe it's the best show I've ever seen.
Other than a personal fondness for Solon.com, is there a reason you posted that link in a conversation about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers?
I think it was Sinatra who said he was the greatest entertainer in the World.
I don't think I said anything about Raquel Welch's abilities as a performer, let alone 'complete performer'. She just 'happened' to be included in the Bob Hope-USO piece I excerpted. :) She won an award for supporting/entertaining the troops in Vietnam with Bob Hope.
I can’t find the exact quote, but a fellow golfer once asked Sammy Davis Jr. “What’s your handicap?”
Without missing a step Sammy replied “I’m a half blind black jew. What’s yours?”
btt
It turns out that the parents of that time were right. Elvis lead to Michael Jackson and worse is coming.
Excerpt:
...Many described his [Elvis] act by comparing it to a striptease. Jack Gould of The New York Time declared, “Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability,” while John Crosby of the New York Harald Tribune called Elvis “unspeakably Untalented and vulgar”. The criticism prompted parents, religious groups from the North and South, and the Parent-Teacher Association to condemn Elvis and rock n roll music by associating both with juvenile delinquency...
Dear Larry:
Where are you? When are you going to run for something?
P.S. I don’t mean to disagree with you, but the anniversary of the loss of the greatest entertainer in the world is exactly one month from today.
It’s true that Sammy was remarkable and overcame huge obstacles, though.
Relevant passage found using standard text search:
“But Sotomayor’s vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as “a wise Latina” trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment — a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism when even the doughty Ann Richards was saying to the 1988 Democratic National Convention: “After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.” What flatulent canards mainstream feminism used to traffic in! Astaire, idolized even by Mikhail Baryshnikov, was one of the most brilliant and peerless dancers and choreographers of the 20th century. The agile but limited Ginger Rogers, a spunky, smart-mouthed comedian, is only a footnote. Get real, girls! This is the kind of mushy balderdash I doggedly had to plow through for five years in trying to find a good feminist poem for my collection, “Break, Blow, Burn.” I never found one. Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!”
Relevant passage found using standard browser text search:
“But Sotomayor’s vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as “a wise Latina” trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment — a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism when even the doughty Ann Richards was saying to the 1988 Democratic National Convention: “After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.” What flatulent canards mainstream feminism used to traffic in! Astaire, idolized even by Mikhail Baryshnikov, was one of the most brilliant and peerless dancers and choreographers of the 20th century. The agile but limited Ginger Rogers, a spunky, smart-mouthed comedian, is only a footnote. Get real, girls! This is the kind of mushy balderdash I doggedly had to plow through for five years in trying to find a good feminist poem for my collection, “Break, Blow, Burn.” I never found one. Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!”
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