Brynner wasn't Mongolian, though he sometimes claimed to be. His father was half European, half indigenous Siberian, and his mother was Russian (don't know from where in Russia, but he was born and raised in Vladivostok, just Northeast of China). He was a sorta white guy playing a definitely Egyptian guy.

He wasn't anything. He literally did not exist. Stop being obtuse.

Uh, I was talking very specifically about the role of Noah.

Dammit, Hughes! That's a brook trout! They aren't marine, they aren't even anadromous!

Huh? I don't believe the Bible, I'm not a Christian, that's just where Noah is from (also the Torah and Koran maybe? not really sure where they diverge).

What are you talking about? How can you describe someone who is supposedly the ancestor of all people as belonging to a single race?

Sure, it's sort of weird to call it whitewashing, though, if it is a fictional character of indeterminable shin color and physical features.

According to the Bible, every living person is a descendent of Noah. In my mind it isn't really clear who should be playing Noah. Probably someone with olive-colored skin, but it seems like it could be someone of pretty much any race.

Sadly no. I was even a posci major in college, and the only riots around then that I remember learning about in detail was at the Chicago Convention in '68, mostly because it had consequences for the presidential race that year and was part of what led to the formation of the McGovern-Fraser Commission.

pfft. I wasn't alive in 1967. But you'd figure it'd show up in history books or something. The Chicago riots in 68 sure did.

How have I never heard of this before?

And all those empty lots? The city is like 65% park!

This:
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I love her voice, but somehow I find her music kind of meh.

James and the Giant Breach of Contract

Sure we did! William Henry Morrison! He's the one that died early because he got trapped under a teapot dome. He was very short.

I am becoming more and more suspicious that the word "quantum" is just a way for physicists to disguise the fact that they don't know what they are talking about.

Not necessarily, "speaking roles" is a broad enough term that it could include some really minor characters.

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Honestly, I had never heard of anyone claiming he had an actual mental illness. I would also never refer to anyone I thought had an actual mental illness as a lunatic, nor would any other reasonable person living in this century. My initial use of the word lunatic was an ill-considered allusion to your use of it in…