Quincy, You are delusional. I do have the autopsy report. He was shot and killed in January 21, 1959, in his abdomen. He
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LAscandals — 14 years ago(February 06, 2012 10:28 AM)
Quincy, You are delusional. I do have the autopsy report. He was shot and killed in January 21, 1959, in his abdomen. He also has a scar from an appendectomy. If you met some guy claiming to be him after all these years then you met an imposter who is yanking your chain. I hope you didn't give him money.
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loissurmi — 12 years ago(September 29, 2013 01:19 PM)
I agree. I mean Alfalfa at the time if his death was not in demand as an actor, no one was clambering after him. He wasn't exactly an "a" list actor. So what would make it so important to fake his death? I'm sure it might have made the second it third page of the paper, and people probably thought " oh that's too bad" and went on to finish breakfast. What's the big deal? The fact is, he wasnt Elvis. Not even a big name. So why would this happen?
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TiminPhoenix — 14 years ago(July 29, 2011 06:15 AM)
Thank you for your post. It was quite interesting.
I would say that the "Little Rascals" actually deserves far more respect for showing racial tolerance and kids playing together during a time when such a thing could be thought of as "wrong."
Their inclusion of a black child, who really wasn't exploited any more for his looks than any other of the kids, showed a real sense of equality at a time when it didn't exist at all.
Thanks again for your column.
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GoUSN — 13 years ago(November 04, 2012 04:13 PM)
I had never even heard that Alfalfa was held responsible for his lines, that by today's standards could be viewed as racist.
On whether blackface and other types of comic props were genuinely racist and deserving of our modern contempt, I'd have to say no.
I was born in the fifties and grew up in the sixties. I attended a Catholic grammar school that just happened to be located on a demographic crossroads - to the north and east were the whites; to the south were the Hispanics; and to the west were the blacks. And our school reflected this diversity. Our "BMOC" in school was black, and most of the popular kids were the Hispanic kids.
In this milieu, when we as children watched the Little Rascals or similar comedies, it simply never occurred to us to apply movie stereotypes to our lives. Blackface to us was just a comic send-up of whites trying to look black. An exaggerated Mexican accent that made the speaker sound foolish was just that - a foolish speaker. These were items of entertainment that had no connections to our actual experiences - and it certainly would not have occurred to us to think they were offensive.
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TheLightFantastic — 13 years ago(December 17, 2012 03:05 PM)
You're not missing much - I scanned the thread and got the gist of it. The OP claims that Carl Switzer faked his death and people went along with it for autographs and pictures.
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marvidpro — 10 years ago(March 21, 2016 12:30 PM)
It's an interesting post, but everything I've seen about Alfalfa indicated he was kind of a prick. According to the bio on the little rascals I just watched on Youtube he was a bully on the set and a punk off it. I loved the little rascals growing up, but the fact was more than likely he wasn't the nicest of people. If he liked you it was OK, but if not