I was stunned this morning while driving to work, listening to a story on NPR about a lawsuit in Israel, brought by Jewish women who have been harassed by ultra-Orthodox Jews during bus rides. The story can be heard here.
Gender segregation? The assertion that women should not be educated beyond high school? Fundamentalist Judaism sure sounds a lot like Fundamentalist Islam.
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Let’s do one more old movie with a mad doctor! Here are six choice minutes taken from the climax to Doctor X (1932). It was filmed in 2-color (red, green) Technicolor and was directed by Michael Curtiz, who started in silent movies and was best known for ‘Casablanca’. That’s Fay Wray at 25, as the “dame in dis-dress,” a year before King Kong.
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After posting Ub Iwerk’s “Skeletons in the Closet” and the Warner Brothers cartoon “Pigs is Pigs“, I guess there’s no avoiding Mickey Mouse’s memorable meeting with “The Mad Doctor” from 1933. In an attempt to avoid any “Imperial Entanglements” with Dizzney, I’ve selected a mere 90 seconds.
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