Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Movie
By Mitch Berg
HBO is going to make a movie about the Duke lacrosse case:
Variety, an entertainment industry magazine, reported that HBO plans a movie from the book “Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case,” which was written by KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor Jr.
The movie would explore the dynamics of racism and class that made the case a national story, Variety reported.
Yes, I just bet that the movie will star racism and classism.
This one, I have to see.
October 10th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Pretty quiet around here today. Mitch, do you want to call Hoboken detox and see if they have an unresponsive clown, or should I do it?
{True story….used to work with a guy who, when he didn’t show up to work, we called detox and a couple of times he was there}
October 10th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
HBO often does a fantastic job, I would leap to conclusions. There are important points to be made about race in this country, including the hyperventilation by blacks about ‘rushes to judgement’ and the dynamic that they refuse to acknowledge criticism they veiw as fair and accurate because it might give license to racists – and how that is recognized as institutionalizing revserse descrimination. (Somehow that approach sounds familiar.. hrmmmm…)
Each of those points are things such a show can, and I suspect will, explore.
Conversely, to pretend that Robert Byrd or Strom Thurmond or Jerry Falwell didn’t exist, and that the ideas they embraced don’t still exist in the south – or for that matter – in Duluth – well, THAT’s burrying your head in the sand every bit as much as did Jesse Jackson when he refused to acknowledge reverse discrimination.
Chuck- I had an employee once tell me she was having an operation to remove her gall bladder, and would be out a week. The following Monday (after the week she was to be gone had expired – she called and said she was feeling under the weather). The next day, she called again, but her friend stopped by to ask where she was. When I said, “She is still feeling ill from her surgery,” he replied, “Surgery?! She’s been on a bender for a week!” When I then asked her to provide a Dr.’s note -as was our policy- I never heard from her again. It’s kinda funny, but also sad. She was a good worker – reliable in every other way than this incident, and did good quality work – alchohol does awful things to people – it’s easily the most destructive drug we deal with nationally. I wish we had a better way of socializing generally, and acclamating teens to it.
October 10th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
bah.. I wouldN’T WOULD’T leap to conclusions – sorry
October 10th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Peev, yeah, same story here. The guy who we would check detox for, was a great worker. A very hard worker. In many ways a model employee. Postscript is that later on, after I left that company, he was killed in a car crash….driving home from a night at the bar.
I love beer, but know not to let it risk my life, job, or police record. Or anyone else’s well being.
October 10th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
I worked with a guy who shot up crystal meth in the parking lot. Would work his ass off for 3 days then sit in the break room in the dark the other two days. Great guy when sober. Smart too. Always wondered how smart he would be without the drugs. Tech support, programmer. The company has since merged with a bigger one and I suspect that sort of behavior was frowned upon.