Episode 1390 - Elvis Mitchell
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
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The Importance of Representation
There were many black cowboys, but we never saw them in the movies. I grew up loving screwball comedies. There's probably no bigger admirer of Preston Sturgis than me. He bounced back and forth between being poor and being a creature of society. And so for his movies to basically reduce black, as soon as you saw a black person in Preston Sturg is movie, there was that ridiculous dialect that no black person actually spoke.
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