Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 20:48:27 +0000
From: dialogs-AT-pseud.pseud
Subject: Re: SV: M-INTRO: The Performing Arts


In article <199802141601.LAA45191-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>,
bob-AT-pseud.pseud writes

>Good question! I think the ruling class sees the entainment industry as a
>commodity to be packaged and profited on. But also used to dupe the masses
>into accepting the ideology and in fact the predominant line of those who
>rule..
>
>Thus during the second world war we had Gene Kelly singing "I'm singin in
>the Rain" as the allied armies marched off to Japanese POW camps.

Singin' in the Rain was made in 1952. Perhaps they were marching off to
Korean war POW camps?

-- 
Lew


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