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Post by jervistetch on Aug 15, 2022 20:55:25 GMT
After 50 years, the Academy is finally apologizing to Sacheen Littlefeather for their mistreatment following her appearance at the 1973 Oscars. The story is here in The Hollywood Reporter: An Apology to Sacheen
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Post by Isapop on Aug 15, 2022 21:32:52 GMT
I'm not sure the Academy had anything to apologize for, unless it's on behalf of those in the audience who booed her.
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Post by marshamae on Aug 15, 2022 21:49:04 GMT
Apologize for the boos and threatening behavior.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 15, 2022 23:05:06 GMT
WHEN WILL THEY APOLOGIZE FOR DAVID NIVEN'S INSENSITIVE INSULT???
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Post by spiderwort on Aug 15, 2022 23:07:47 GMT
Thank you for posting this, Jervis. It's something that's been long overdue. I encourage everyone to read the article. It's very moving. Sacheen Littlefeather, an actress when young, went on to lead a life of service, studying nutrition and traditional medicine and working in Mother Teresa’s AIDS hospice in San Francisco. Living now with metastatic cancer, this acknowledgment and the upcoming event at the Academy museum have moved her deeply. But there is more than what is seen and heard in that acceptance speech. From wikipedia: "[Roger] Moore escorted Littlefeather off-stage, past several people critical of her, and towards the press.[54] Oscars producer Koch and director Marty Pasetta both later recalled that John Wayne was waiting in the wings and had to be restrained by six security guards to prevent him from forcing her off stage.[55][56][57][58][59][60] At the press conference, Littlefeather read to journalists the speech that Brando had prepared; The New York Times published the full text the next day.[5] "Later that night, before she announced the Best Actress winner, Raquel Welch said, 'I hope the winner doesn't have a cause.'[61] When Clint Eastwood presented the Best Picture award, he remarked that he was presenting it 'on behalf of all the cowboys shot in John Ford westerns over the years.'[61] Michael Caine, the night's co-host, criticized Brando for 'letting some poor little Indian girl take the boos instead of '[standing] up and [doing] it himself.'"[61] Sacheen Littlefeather
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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 15, 2022 23:37:34 GMT
This ! .... Yes !
With perhaps some better wording ... Sacheen was not literally a "poor little Indian girl" but Caine meant well !
Brando should have made his political protest himself if he really needed to do so at the wrong time and in the wrong place. (imo, then and now)
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Post by Richard Kimble on Oct 23, 2022 11:07:26 GMT
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Post by stryker on Oct 23, 2022 12:34:39 GMT
After 50 years, the Academy is finally apologizing to Sacheen Littlefeather for their mistreatment following her appearance at the 1973 Oscars. The story is here in The Hollywood Reporter: An Apology to Sacheen
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
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Post by marshamae on Oct 23, 2022 13:46:03 GMT
Interesting how all over the place we are about this.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Oct 23, 2022 13:47:35 GMT
Interesting how all over the place we are about this. Must be a slow news day and controversy "sells".
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Post by stryker on Oct 24, 2022 1:57:12 GMT
Interesting how all over the place we are about this. The fact is Sacheen Littlefeather was a fraud, her whole life was a lie.
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Post by AcousticBlues77 on Oct 24, 2022 17:46:12 GMT
She died of breast cancer on Oct. 2, one month before her 76th birthday.
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Post by mikef6 on Oct 24, 2022 19:47:48 GMT
This stuff about Littlefeather not being a tribal member is really old, old news. I have it in Anthony Holden's 1993 history "Beyond the Oscar" and I knew it before that. I guess it had to come up again to try to spoil the happy news of the apology (which she deserved whether authentic Native American or not) and the feelings about her death which came soon after.
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Post by divtal on Oct 24, 2022 21:10:53 GMT
Interesting how all over the place we are about this. I can understand how "all over the place we are about this." I say that because I can think of 2 views of the situation. I knew her slightly. It was well after her appearance at the Oscar ceremony, that we both attended several social/political events in the SF Bay Area. Among the group, it was well known that her name was Marie/Maria Cruz. She was an aspiring actress, and it's not exactly an uncommon practice for aspiring entertainers to adopt a new name/ID. Any doubts about the full authenticity of her claims to a Native American bloodline, paled by acceptance that she was, certainly, doing no harm by speaking out in support of that demographic. From my brief experience with her, I would call her a nice person. The recent article, revealing her sisters' view of how she presented herself, is offered above. I have no idea what deep familial conflicts came into play, on that account. I wonder what USED to go into the arrangements for an Oscar to be "accepted," by a surrogate celebrity. In recent years, the "presenting" celebrity, has simply announced that the winner is unable to attend, and accepts the award on behalf of The Academy. That may have been the turning point. It was roundly reported, after the fact, that Brando wasn't anywhere near Wounded Knee, at that time ... but, that he was at his home in Tahiti. I don't know. She may have been "used/exploited." She may have been too eager to take an "opportunity," that didn't turn out well. Again, I can see 2 views of the situation.
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Post by marshamae on Oct 25, 2022 2:06:16 GMT
I was just thinking that so many years later this event is so polarizing.
We have grown accustomed to political speech at sundry times and diverse places but then it was a big slap, regardless of what she said. I can’t understand not feeling some empathy for the way she was treated . We take the whole issue of cultural appropriation, presenting oneself in the persona of an ethnicity not our own. In the 70’s it might have seemed fine to dress in tribal clothes to present a pro native testimony.
I agree that the sisters seem questionable. They sound like Meghan Markles half- sister and brother.
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Post by stryker on Oct 26, 2022 5:50:57 GMT
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 26, 2022 13:04:44 GMT
Unforgiveable!!!
That SOB can say whatever he wants to about Littlefeather (true or false), but his insult to Elizabeth Warren, who according to him (in his disgusting, mocking tone) is "1000th American Indian" is unforgivable bullshi*! G*ddamn him for that!
Per FACT CHECK. ORG, A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center (parentheticals mine):
"According to the DNA report [which she only took because that b@stard Donald Trump -- whose father was arrested at a KKK rally in 1927 and wouldn't let black people live in his New York apartments -- taunted her about it], Warren’s test results show that she is of 'primarily European descent,' but also that she has at least five genetic segments that are 'Native American in origin at high confidence.'"
She was born and raised in Oklahoma, and it's categorically safe to say that many, many people who were born and raised there have Native American blood in them (it was, after all, INDIAN TERRITORY, before it was Oklahoma). I hope to God you will stop posting these kind of BS things, which too often are filled with abject insults to certain people(s). My paternal grandfather was half Choctaw, which means that I am 1/8th Choctaw (documented by Choctaw rolls, for the record, in case anyone wants to challenge my claim). And I hate that Native Americans still, to this day, are mocked, scorned, and abused by idiots like this man. It's absolutely disgusting. On my maternal side, I am Irish, Scottish, and German. Easy to see a similarity between my ancestry and Elizabeth Warren's, isn't it? Honestly, Stryker, this is all disgusting. Littlefeather did a lot of good work in the world after that night at the Oscars, whatever race she was, and now she's lying in a grave in Red Rock, Oklahoma, a tiny town that's the headquarters of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, next to her husband, Charles Koshiway, who was a member of that tribe. I wish to God people would let her rest in peace.
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Post by stryker on Oct 26, 2022 14:39:34 GMT
Unforgiveable!!!
That SOB can say whatever he wants to about Littlefeather (true or false), but his insult to Elizabeth Warren, who according to him (in his disgusting, mocking tone) is "1000th American Indian" is unforgivable bullshi*! G*ddamn him for that!
Per FACT CHECK. ORG, A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center (parentheticals mine):
"According to the DNA report [which she only took because that b@stard Donald Trump -- whose father was arrested at a KKK rally in 1927 and wouldn't let black people live in his New York apartments -- taunted her about it], Warren’s test results show that she is of 'primarily European descent,' but also that she has at least five genetic segments that are 'Native American in origin at high confidence.'" And I hate that Native Americans still, to this day, are mocked, scorned, and abused by idiots like this man. It's absolutely disgusting. On my maternal side, I am Irish, Scottish, and German (though I'm not a Nazi like Trump and his father!). Easy to see a similarity between my ancestry and Elizabeth Warren's, isn't it? Honestly, Stryker, this is all disgusting. Littlefeather did a lot of good work in the world after that night at the Oscars, whatever race she was, and she's lying now in a grave in Red Rock, Oklahoma, a tiny town that is the headquarters of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, next to her husband, Charles Koshiway, who was a member of that tribe. I wish to God people would let her rest in peace.
LOL. Didn't Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren use that miniscule (less than 1%) bit of Indian blood to get a free ride at University? Just imagine the outcry if a white actor pretended to be black to overcome Hollywood's current "color blind casting" and grab roles only being offered to black actors these days. They might have snatched the role of Macbeth from Denzel Washington. That would have been terrible.
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Post by spiderwort on Oct 26, 2022 15:38:27 GMT
LOL. Didn't Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren use that miniscule (less than 1%) bit of Indian blood to get a free ride at University? Insulting Elizabeth Warren by repeating that Trump mocking name is beneath you, Stryker. Also, Warren didn't get a free ride at University by claiming Native American heritage. She actually went to George Washington University on a debate scholarship.
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Post by kijii on Oct 26, 2022 16:09:47 GMT
I'm not sure the Academy had anything to apologize for, unless it's on behalf of those in the audience who booed her. My thoughts exactly Isapop. Well...maybe they were booing Brando for a no show and sending a social message instead of taking his Oacar
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