Back in the aughts, Cracked magazine was owned by the same company as the Weekly World News. During the rocky final years of Cracked, our editor, in an attempt to give the writers a pay check, had us contribute articles to WWN ("the humor magazine that nobody knows is a humor magazine.") It took me a while to get the hang of the paper. I spent a couple of months grappling with Dear Dottie and her advice column. When I got phased out of that position, I had to try to work my way back in with some straight forward news stories.
This article came about from a long running disagreement with a writer friend of mine. He was very much of the school that "Gone with the Wind" shouldn't be shown on any more, and felt it was just a bad as "Birth of a Nation" in depicting racial stereotypes. I knew he was a big Marx Bros. fan, so I finally countered with the argument that would he ban Marx Bros. movies because of the Chico Marx character? And he was a huge Buster Keaton fan, so I asked him if we should ban "The General," since it also portrayed the Rebels in a sympathetic light. That was different I was told. But the discussion always lingered.
I had done a sketch about colorization and the logic of that sketch was perfect to expand upon to give a make-over to old movies, especially now that TCM was now making a point to show old, non-PC movies. I thought it came out pretty well.
I had done a sketch about colorization and the logic of that sketch was perfect to expand upon to give a make-over to old movies, especially now that TCM was now making a point to show old, non-PC movies. I thought it came out pretty well.
