HIDDEN IMAGES OF MEANING...

ENCOURAGING THE WAR WITHIN WARS ORCHESTRATED BY NATIONS ENVIOUS OF AMERICA'S VISION- DETERMINED TO DESTROY IT ANYWAY THAT THEY COULD... THEY FAILED- THANKS TO THE GOOD MORALLY SOUND PEOPLE OF THE WORLD. I RECALL WHEN I HAD WATCHED THE TV VERSION OF THE DOROTHY DANDRIDGE STORY -A VERSION THAT I DIDN'T PARTICULARLY CARE FOR, FOR VARIOUS REASONS, AMONG WHICH WAS WHEN DANDRIDGES ALLEGED WHITE SUITOR BROUGHT HER SOME DEAD LOOKING DAISIES, WITHOUT WRAPPING OR A BOW. AND DOROTHY DANDRIDGE I THOUGHT HAD PERHAPS DESERVED BETTER, AS MANY ACTRESSES OF COLOR AND VARIOUS ETHNICITIES THAT HOLLYWOOD HAD REFUSED TO HONOR AT THE TIME- THANKS TO THE LAST PARADIGMS- MY PAARENTS AND I, AS A CHILD, HAD WATCHED THE FILM AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL - "A PLACE IN THE SUN" WHICH FEATURED DOROTHY DANDRIDGE AND HER WHITE LOVER, A BRIT ACTOR... ONE OF THE DEHAVILLAND SISTERS, THE BLOND ONE, AND JOAN COLLINS, AND HARRY BELAFONE, MAY HAVE ALSO APPEARED IN THE FILM... MY EYES WERE RIVETED ON DANDRIDGE BECAUSE OF HER BEAUTY AND BECAUSETHERE WEREN'T TOO MANY FILMS AT THAT TIME REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA-LIVING IN AMERICA- WORKING AND EARNING, IT WAS AS IFTHEY WERE INVISIBLE- GHOSTS WITHOUT A VOICE OR AN IMAGE- HOWEVER DISTORTED... YET THE REALITY WAS AND IS THAT ALL WOMEN OF ALL HUE REMEMBER WHITE IS A HUE TOO-HAD TO PAY A PRICE- AND MEN TOO FOR THAT MATTER IN ORDER TO CREATE HOLLYWOOD - THE ENTERTAINMENT CAPITOL OF THE WORLD (SUPPOSEDLY) AND LETS NOT FORGET THERE WERE MORE THAN JUST ACTORS AND ACTRESSES, COMPOSERS, MUSICIANS, DANCERS, THE PEOPLE WHO MADE US LAUGH WHILE CRYING INSIDE - BUT THE AUDIENCE - THEIR ANS NEVER SAW THE TEARS - "THEY DON'T CRY IN BASEBALL DO THEY?" (C)COPYRIGHTED BY GWEN MITCHELL ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2016 AT THE HOLLYWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY, 90028