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Famed Theater Ends 34-Year Tradition Of Showing ‘Gone With The Wind' Because It's ‘Insensitive' |
2017-08-28 |
[Daily Caller] The board of directors of the Orpheum Theatre Group in Memphis, Tennessee has decided to end a 34-year tradition of screening "Gone with the Wind" because the board says the movie is now "insensitive." Board members announced the plan to remove the 1939 epic from The Orpehum’s 2018 summer movie series on Friday, reports Memphis CBS affiliate WREG-TV. "As an organization whose stated mission is to ’entertain, educate and enlighten the communities it serves,’ the Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population," board members said in a statement. "While title selections for the series are typically made in the spring of each year, the Orpheum has made this determination early in response to specific inquiries from patrons," the statement also said. The Orpheum -- a 2,308-seat theater in downtown Memphis -- held its final screening of "Gone with the Wind" on Aug. 11. Since the early 1980s, the Orpheum has generated massive amounts of revenue showing the 238-minute epic about the complex love life of a plantation owner’s daughter during the Civil War era. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#10 Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn |
Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-28 21:12 |
#9 Why not wildly overreact and tear the theater down? |
Posted by: Raj 2017-08-28 18:53 |
#8 #5 magpie: Zip-a-dee-do-da, zip-a-dee-day . . . . ;-D |
Posted by: Barbara 2017-08-28 15:42 |
#7 They should have a movie "celebrating diversity" at a college, bring in all the snowflakes and then surprise them with Blazing Saddles. The total spontaneous combustion would atomize the campus. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2017-08-28 15:32 |
#6 the 238-minute epic about the complex love life of a plantation owner’s daughter during the Civil War era That's one view, I suppose. I look forward to the day when not everything is forced to be political. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-28 14:37 |
#5 They could always show Disney's Songs of the South(1946)... |
Posted by: magpie 2017-08-28 12:17 |
#4 "Zulu" may become more appropriate for the times. |
Posted by: General "Buck" Turgidson 2017-08-28 11:20 |
#3 I read a few weeks ago that a theater cancelled a showing of 'Blazing Saddles' because it was, um, inappropriate. Now, that's a tragedy. |
Posted by: ed in texas 2017-08-28 09:52 |
#2 Well I guess they can start showing that Democratic Favorite: Birth of a Nation. |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-08-28 07:52 |
#1 I never liked that movie. Now Waterloo Bridge... |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-28 04:11 |