By the way, most of these statues were made around 1900-1920, mass produced by the same company. They aren't artefacts from the Civil War, just made-up memories of a supposedly glorious past, that actually served to justify the Jim Crow laws. That's actually the reason they were erected for.

Also, suggesting for years, day after day, that Barack Obama wasn't legally the president due to a conspiracy about his birth place.

"That Lilian Gish, she's a six at best."

At the time, however, Trump viewed himself as a democrat, and had no political ambitions. He was just this ill-informed guy full of himself who assumed that, as he had a potty in massive gold, his opinion was more valuable than anybody else.

They regard him as a hero, just because he yells some bigoted bullshit. In return, he regards them as fine, smart and truthful, but he hasn't really tried to study what their position implies. Which actually makes the appointed leaders even more dangerous, because their ideas can go quite far, just due to some well…

He has a long history of racism: the business dealings of his father, the Central Park five, the Birther movement, his deep hatred of Barack Obama, his generalizations about Mexicans, etc.
However, he's not "alt.right" or a white supremacist. He's just of the bigoted drunk uncle variety. The problem is that, as long as…

Well, at least, it was his wife who handled stuff and made the decisions after he had his stroke.

Griffith was surprisingly modern and progressive, aesthetically as well as ideologically (cf. Intolerance), but he had this HUGE blindspot about slavery due to being raised in a Southern family by a father who was a colonel in the Confederate Army.
Take bigotry and prejudice, and give them to a guy with enormous…

The press for The Birth of a Nation mentioned that Wilson had endorsed the film, but the claim was most likely a fabrication by the publicist.

Even Golden Abyss?

That's more complicated. After the very early sessions, original member Al Jardine left the band, David Marks was the replacement on rhythm guitar, but he rarely sang at the time on the studio recordings. After a few months, he was fed up with manager Murry Wilson's shenanigans, and left, after Al Jardine had already…

They were a fine live band around 1972-1973, as documented by the double live album that was released after Holland, and they even toured with The Grateful Dead. The problem was that they also released a compilation which was some kind of a surprise hit, brought focus back to their early material instead of their…

Tony Asher wrote the first draft to the song, as a first attempt at recording took place during the Pet Sounds sessions. Later, Mike Love wrote new lyrics, which are heard on the single. Ultimately, Wilson reused some of Asher's lyrics on "Brian Wilson Presents Smile". So, it's actually the only original song on Smile…

Besides, it's no secret that the Broccolis have a fine relationship with Craig (they were less fond of Brosnan, as it was John Calley who forced them to replace Dalton in 1993), and that they may have had a handshake deal with him for a fifth film for a while.
And it's part of the EON folklore since Moonraker to have…

His speech to the rat was a highlight.

The 2-part story stuff was considered before EON bought back the rights to Blofeld and SPECTRE. As the Broccolis were dissatisfied with Logan's script for SPECTRE, he hasn't been invited back for the next one.

That was for "Quantum of Solace", and for a very particular reason. After the writers strike started, per guild regulation, as every WGA member was out of the equation, the only people allowed to make (uncredited) changes to a script during production are the director and the cast. Which meant that only Marc Forster,…

This is a fair analysis:

Nurse Nancy would have been too much of a rehash from Jon Hamm's first appearance in Childrens Hospital, when it's revealed that Valerie Flame (Malin Akerman) is actually Derrick Childrens (Jon Hamm) in drag.

Also, David Wain had a deviated septum, which he got first fixed during his camp years.