Sublime

The Republicans shut down the federal government and forced Bill Clinton to balance the budget, something that would have been regarded as a fringe daydream even a year prior. Taking matters one step further, they then impeached the man as well. To this day, the corporate press claims (and perhaps even believes) that the Republicans were more upset

one hundred percent of the starting cornerbacks in the NFL were Black while eighty percent of starting centers were white.

“I don’t consider niggers in the same light as I would a white man,”

Daniel Kaluuya’s first audition there was no question about who would play him. He wasn’t particularly known: he’d done Skins and The Fades and he was a face people recognised, but he wasn’t a name.

There were angry mutterings today from some of the black stunt boys when Joie Chitwood’s team, blacked up and bewigged, were chosen to stunt the spectacular skidding and crashing of planes and cars. It is understandable that Joie wanted his own boys, but the black team were very angry and nobody is quite sure what will happen tomorrow.

Like Ickes, Wallace was a nominal Republican; also like Ickes, he was unknown to the president-elect before his appointment.

To my horror, on the set the other day I heard Harry bawling ‘Nigger’. He was not trying to start a race riot, but simply calling to our English props man, ‘Nigger’ Weymouth, a nickname he has answered to since the days of silent cinema. I pointed out that it might be better to find him another name here in the racial hotbed of Louisiana, so we