"Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo!"

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Mon Aug 13 16:18:15 UTC 2012


At 8/13/2012 07:48 AM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
>In the movie "Airplane" every time a Black person speaks, subtitles
>appear on the screen.

Is that all the time every black person speaks, or only for the two
jiving black passengers in one scene?  I don't recall subtitles when
co-pilot Kareem Abdul-Jabbar speaks.

Joel

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