![]() It’s especially true of the movie business celebrated in Vanity Fair’s 2010 Hollywood issue, which just arrived on my doorstep this week. Mississippi schools were forced to integrate years ago, but as the local paper makes oh so clear in its photo spreads of high school graduation and homecoming queen ceremonies, in Mississippi, integration simply means that African Americans are allowed to attend the public schools while many of the white children go to private academies.Īnd guess what? It’s not all that different in Hollywood, where there are oh so few black executives, agents, managers, producers and filmmakers. The paper reveals how, in Mississippi, the more things change, the more things stay the same. My old pal, producer Larry Gordon, who grew up in Belzoni, Miss., knows how much I love everything about the South, so he regularly sends me copies of his hometown newspaper, the Belzoni Banner. This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.
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