Re: Ms CamerOn

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Roger wrote:
> Comment on Ms CamerOn:  After reading one of her posts, I was reminded of
> the late, great, professor, Erwin Corey.
> She began a paragarph with,  "We Marxists........"   No one  in their right
> mind, Marxists or no, has ever begun a paragraph with "we Marxists"......

Actually, Irwin Corey has much more of a claim to Marxism than our stalker 
does.

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NY Press, Volume 14, Issue 45

Who Am the World?s Foremost Authority?
A Lesson from Professor Irwin Corey

by Jim Knipfel

"However..." the word that opens many of his routines, might just as well 
be used to describe Professor Irwin Corey?s entire life.

Few show business careers have lasted as long, or crossed such a wide 
spectrum, as Prof. Corey?s. He?s done vaudeville and Broadway, been on 
television and radio, in the movies and on record albums, appeared in 
smoke-filled nightclubs and at both the Lincoln and Kennedy Centers. And 
for the past six-plus decades, he?s been confusing people.

Trying to capture Prof. Corey?s career in wide-scope is a little like 
trying to lasso a tornado. There?s simply too much to tell?especially given 
that Corey, now 87, is still moving. Earlier this year, he appeared as 
Charlie, the skid-row informant, in Woody Allen?s Curse of the Jade 
Scorpion. Last May he played a string of dates at the New York Comedy Club. 
And two days after we spoke he was off to Atlantic City to do a show at the 
Sands.

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One thing Corey was never very shy about, however, was politics. From his 
earliest union days to the blacklist to the present (presidential bid 
aside), he?s been mighty outspoken.

"It was never a conscious decision," he said of his admittedly strong 
beliefs. "It was never something I set out to do." Nowadays his walls are 
adorned with pictures of Corey posing with Castro (he gave $50,000 to send 
medicine to Cuba). He?s also made large contributions to the Mumia 
Abu-Jamal defense fund, as well as the Communist Party.

In some ways, being blacklisted continues to haunt him ("Though it?s more 
of a gray list now," he told me). He says he was never asked back to 
Letterman after his first appearance there in 1982, because the blacklist 
was still in effect at NBC. Being blacklisted also earned him a hefty FBI file.

Funny thing is, Richard told me later, Corey got hold of his file, only to 
discover that it was a collection of newspaper reviews. "So it?s like the 
government was running a clipping service for us," Richard said.

Much of his political outrage these days is aimed at Israel, so much so 
that he?s made hefty contributions to Palestinian relief efforts.

"You know, in 1492," he began, "when the settlers came to this continent, 
they killed the Indians and took their land. Then they brought black people 
to this land and made slaves out of them. And then George Washington, who 
was the first president of the United States, had 250 slaves?which is a 
felony. At that time?and I use that expression ?at that time,? for the 
simple reason that you cannot say, it was okay to kill the Jews at that 
time. You know? A felony does not lose its dimension by the passing of 
time... And I always say, if God wanted the Jews to have Palestine, why?d 
he give the Chinese a whole continent? Understand that? The fact is, East 
Prussia was part of Germany. By 1914, there was a thing called the Polish 
Corridor, which allowed Poland access to the Baltic?it was a land-locked 
country. After World War II, they gave them East Prussia. They gave the 
Poles East Prussia?they could?ve given the Jews the Rhineland, and the 
world couldn?t?ve said anything. After all, they took the lives and the 
property of 600,000 German Jews. What happened to that property? Who has it 
now? Israel says that God gave them the land that now belongs to Palestine. 
That little piece of land. We are part of a solar system. Nine planets 
revolving around the sun. There are billions and billions of planets 
throughout the universe, in billions and billions of galaxies. How did God 
even find this planet, let alone that little tiny piece of land to give them?"

full: http://nypress.com/14/45/news&columns/feature.cfm

For more Irwin Corey information,  visit: http://professor.irwincorey.com/




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