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[George Thompson]

I wrote: "dredged from my scrapheap of useless memories"

Isn't it a pity that there isn't a pill or something to take to induce a selective form of Repressed Memory Syndrome?

I also wrote: "Was there not a film from the mid/late 70s called "Five on the Blackhand Side"?"

I find in RLIN:
Five on the black hand side.  United Artists Pictures Inc.; a Michael Tolan, Brock Peters production; screenplay by Charlie L. Russell;  produced by Brock Peters and Michael Tolan; directed by Oscar Williams.
Cast: Clarice Taylor, Leonard Jackson, Virginia Capers, Glynn Turman, D'Urville Martin.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1973.                             Based on the play by Oscar Williams.

The posters in the subway had a very amusing drawing by I think Will Elder.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African
Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.

----- Original Message -----
From: George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>
Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2004 2:50 pm
Subject: Re: GEICO ad

> dredged from my scrapheap of useless memories --
>
> I recall that the Scatman Carruthers (-type?) character on the
> Amos & Andy radio show used invariably to enter the scene crying
> "slip me some skin so I can grin"
>
> Also: Was there not a film from the mid/late 70s called "Five on
> the Blackhand Side"?
>
> GAT
>
> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African
> Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.
>