(snip)Older films, and the stars who made them great, are now seen through the PC prism. Just ask the estate of John Wayne. The legendary star got pummeled a few months ago, decades after his passing, for a racially insensitive Playboy interview in 1971. Some critics demanded that his name be stripped from John Wayne Airport in Orange County, Calif.
(snip)Molly Ringwald, who brought some of John Hughes’s best films to life, turned on her collaborator last year, saying that his films weren’t "woke" enough in our "Me Too" era.
Could problematic films eventually be pulled from home video and streaming services?
Sound hysterical? It's currently in vogue to tear down statues that don’t align with current groupthink. So why would pop culture artifacts be spared?
In fact, it’s already been done.
(snip) below are not direct copy and pastes unless in quotes.
Disney’s Oscar-winning “Song of the South” is basically banned everywhere (see article)Two years ago, a Memphis theater nixed a screening of the 1939 classic “Gone with the Wind” because of its “insensitive” content.
Cosby Show yanked.
Amazon refused to release Woody Allen movies.
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