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The first time I realized “Jemima” was more than a derogatory black name…

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...was when, as a young teen in the mid-1970s, I watched the movie musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). I was already a daydreamer, a romantic, and a fantasy-lover with an imagination that stretched from here to the Horsehead Nebula, so the movie made me laugh and I enjoyed it ridiculously. But hovering in the back… Continue reading The first time I realized “Jemima” was more than a derogatory black name…

[spoilers] Telenovelas: When a villain can make you feel sorry for him.

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I have loved and been driven by Good Versus Evil stories from the time I was a wee child. I'm particularly rough on Bad Guys. I want them to make my blood boil, and make me see crimson, and make me want to jump into the screen to throttle them. Without proper Bad Guys (villains,… Continue reading [spoilers] Telenovelas: When a villain can make you feel sorry for him.