Wrongs corrected and carried out
This week the Writer’s Guild of America tried to right some decades- old wrongs by correcting the credits on movies written by blacklisted writers during the McCarthy era. At the time, the writers, thought to be communists, were kicked out of the industry because of how they might poison the minds of impressionable Americans. Of…
All above average
There is a story told, probably apocryphal, about Harry S. Truman. Upon hearing from an aide that 50 percent of Americans possessed below-average intelligence, the president was reportedly shocked and dismayed. Same thing happened last week in the Florida Legislature when, by request of House Education K-12 Committee Chairman Bill Andrews (R-Delray Beach), education officials…
Captain Smith abandons ship
The Orlando Science Center has been operating without a chief operating officer since the resignation of Capt. Harry L. Smith, Jr., effective March 31. The Orlando Weekly discovered this fact in reporting last week’s story on parking problems at Loch Haven Park (“In the park, It’s car wars,” April 3). Attempting to contact Smith, we…
Rave New World?
The two Orlando detectives were decked out in full SWAT regalia, including ninja masks, as they fiddled with the VCR connections in Conference Room R at City Hall. The inaugural meeting of the Rave Review Task Force, a 17-member board of volunteers,was fortified with such incongruities. The fierce-looking undercover cops-faces hidden to preserve their cover…
Wrongs corrected and carried out
This week the Writer’s Guild of America tried to right some decades- old wrongs by correcting the credits on movies written by blacklisted writers during the McCarthy era. At the time, the writers, thought to be communists, were kicked out of the industry because of how they might poison the minds of impressionable Americans. Of…
