06. THE SHINING – Dick Hallorann (Scatman Crothers)
This may completely expose my personal level of weirdness but I am an unabashed fan of Scatman Crothers. Even before he was the voice of Jazz on THE TRANSFORMERS cartoon I found myself following Scatman’s career. From ROOTS to ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST to HONG KONG PHOOEY to even the Scott Baio teen comedy ZAPPED, I loved me some Scatman Crothers. So imagine my glee when Scatman turns up as the psychically gifted head chef of the Overlook Hotel in THE SHINING and then imagine my disappointment when Jack Nicholson took him out with an axe to the chest. I was a sad (and traumatized!) little kid while watching that scene in the theater.
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There have been token Black Guys Since the History of Movies..But some of these guys are not just tokens.,They only hang around White’s off the set. I’m saying you don’t see alot of them at any Black function.like the soul Train awards or any affair given by Black Ent…
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Well a couple of them you don’t see period because their careers have dried up, they have retired, or they are dead.
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Reblogged this on Written in Blood.
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I reblogged this one. Hope you don’t mind. Excellent post!
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Don’t mind at all…thanks!
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Very nice post!:)
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THanks.
And also thanks for stopping by!
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uber good stuff here! i am a black person. and i approve these choices.
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Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
As a half black person I appreciate your stamp of approval.
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😀
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Die Hard, Alien and Ghostbusters didn’t seem like tokens to me tbh.
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Only black guy in the cast = token
I don’t make the rules, I just live by ’em.
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These are actually impressive ideas in concerning blogging.
You have touched some good points here. Any way keep up wrinting.
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I disagree with the following with explanation: Al from Die Hard. Really?! He is not the token black guy when there are other black guys that played in that movie(remember the computer guy for Han’s team, or the driver for McClane or Little Johnson(FBI)? So no on Al, who was a great guy in that movie. One consideration, Tyreese’s part in those bad Transoformer movies, Billy Dee in Tim Burton’s Batman(DA Dent). Actually anything Billy Dee was in w/o Diana Ross or James Earl Jones.
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