Re: More of the Bush 'Family Values'

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From: Monte
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 13:16

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On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 05:10:14 GMT, "St. Elsewhere"
<michaelphillips@msn.com> wrote:
>> > <liam@orc.net> wrote in message
>news:2gl68.217$ay6.16093@news.shore.net...
>> >> Ever see West Side Story?
>>
>> >  A musical?
>>
>> Yes, but they didn't really sing during knifings back then.
>>
>You do know its fiction and based on Romeo & Juliet. I somehow fail to see
>the connection
>

History 101 coming up.  The large cities(and quite a number of the
smaller ones all had juvenile gang activity.  It became so prevalent
in the 1950's that there was a public outcry, so much so that the
juvenile deliquents in Congress even held hearings.  The weapons of
choice were the switchblade knife, and the homemade gun(zipguns).  The
uniform almost always was the leather motorcycle jacket, collar turned
up ala Brandon.  Many movies etc were based loosely, sometimes very
loosely on all this gang crap.  'West side Story', 'Blackboard
Jungle', later TV shows 'Happy Days'(remember da Fonz and his jacket
and coolness? Kotter remember Juan and Barbarino? 

As too your noting that Bernsteins 'Westside Story' was based on Romeo
and Juliet: yep that is true, but Bernstein in updating it used the
street gangs of New York as representing the feuding families.  He
could have used the Mafia families, but at that time they had little
box office appeal.

m

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Subject: Re: More of the Bush  'Family Values'
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 13:16:01 GMT
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