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Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 00:13:22 -0700
To: classics@u.washington.edu
From: David Lupher <dlupher@ups.edu>
Subject: Re: Gladiators, Books, and the decline of authenticity with time

Allen Koenigsberg writes:
>  If I recall, the old Raymond Massey film on Lincoln showed Abe in a general
>store selling something in a paper bag, in the 1820s, a feat not possible for
>another half century.

And "Glory," the accuracy of which Steve Zoraster endorses, shows Frederick
Douglass as an aged patriarch with white hair when he was still dark-haired
and in his forties; it shows the attack on Ft. Wagner advancing from the
wrong direction; and it implies that a large percentage of the 54th
Massachusetts was composed of runaway slaves (almost none were).  Farb!

But, then, "The Graduate," a film released in 1967 and set in, oh, 1966,
shows Dustin Hoffman tooling across the Bay Bridge from San Francisco
to Berkeley on the upper deck---which was (still is?) the north-south
direction.

David Lupher
Classics Dept.
Univ. of Puget Sound






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