I've been listening to the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope episode of "You Must Remember This." I like its summary of the "Road" movies as amazingly successful and completely mystifying in its success to modern audiences.
I was also unaware of this cringe-worthy blackface sequence from "Holiday Inn". Egad.
Although to Bing's credit, my grandfather was one of the many GI's who loved "White Christmas" as the podcast notes, supposedly breaking down in tears when it was played upon his arrival in the South Pacific's humid summer, far from the wintry peaks of his Cache Valley home.
I was also unaware of this cringe-worthy blackface sequence from "Holiday Inn". Egad.
Although to Bing's credit, my grandfather was one of the many GI's who loved "White Christmas" as the podcast notes, supposedly breaking down in tears when it was played upon his arrival in the South Pacific's humid summer, far from the wintry peaks of his Cache Valley home.
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