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In 2000 Prelutsky was one of the earliest plaintiffs to sign on to a class action lawsuit brought against television talent agencies, networks and production studios accused of discrimination against older writers.
Nearly 50 years ago, the NBC show Dragnet, the most influential police procedural ever, broadcast an episode that called for its hero, Sergeant Joe Friday, to debate fictionalized 1960s critics of...
May 24, 2010 · But after nearly 50 years, try to suggest it’s time to put racial quotas aside, and you will find yourself tarred as a racist. For the past 30 years, Islamics around the world have targeted Americans, but suggest that they constitute a toxic menace and you’re labeled a racist.
May 3, 2021 · But it’s never enough to just point a finger at a problem, although it’s more than most people and all politicians are willing to do. That’s because it could get a person labeled a racist and bring what might be a promising political career to a grinding, brake-screeching, halt.
Burt Prelutsky is a Writers Guild member whose credits range from "McMillan and Wife" and "Diagnosis Murder" to "MASH," "Newhart" and TV movies. He lives in North Hills. As anyone who’s been...
Dec 1, 2009 · So it is that some time ago, in response to a black reader’s email in which he denounced white America as racist, I wrote that if this were truly a racist nation, such luminaries as Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Danny Glover, Kobe Bryant, Will Smith, Michael Jordan, Ryan Howard, Donovan McNabb, Beyonce, Colin Powell, Condi Rice and Barack ...
May 28, 1987 · In the middle 1960s, the Captain Bligh of local film critics operated not on television but in the pages of Los Angeles magazine.
