Favorite Southern book, tv, movie characters or historical figures

[SemiCharmedQuark]

Mine would be Atticus Finch, hands down. Both book and movie Atticus.

[alphafemale]

1. "Stand up children. Your father is walking past."

[wryter2000]

2. Yup

He's mine, too.

[Lavender Brown]

3. Fictional: Atticus; Historical: MLK, Jr. or Frederick Douglass

[underpants]

4. Atticus, Bull Durham (the whole movie), Fried Green Tomatoes

a little TV show in the early 90's called "I'll fly away" when I was in Germany I watched it all the time it reminded me of home.

Fried Green Tomatoes has to be one of the most Southun' movies of all time.

[Penndems]

36. I LOVED "I'll Fly Away"

Why is it that the really serious, intelligent shows always get pulled off the air?

[Dzimbowicz]

5. Moonshine Light, Moonshine Bright

by William Price Fox. What makes it special for me is that it takes place in my hometown.

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. the bible

that's a southern book, right?

;)

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. Damn right! I believe Jesus was born in Texas somewhere...

[alwynsw]

9. Uh....Isn't Bethlehem in Pennsylvania?

[NoPasaran]

11. Maybe so, but Palestine's in Texas

[alphafemale]

Historically. Everyone in the Civil Rights movement. "Ella's Song"

The leaders were impotant, but it never would have happened without the collective will to bring change.

And I think we can find strength in these words today.

I know I do.

Ella's Song

Lyrics and music by Bernice Johnson Reagon
Sung by Sweet Honey in the Rock

We who believe in freedom cannot rest
We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons
Is as important as the killing of white men, white mothers' sons

That which touches me most is that I had a chance to work with people
Passing on to others that which was passed on to me

To me young people come first, they have the courage where we fail
And if I can but shed some light as they carry us through the gale

The older I get the better I know that the secret of my going on
Is when the reins are in the hands of the young, who dare to run against the storm

Not needing to clutch for power, not needing the light just to shine on me
I need to be one in the number as we stand against tyranny
<snip>

The rest is here:

http://thue.stanford.edu/jacquie/songs/ella.html

[alwynsw]

8. The original Cassius Clay

A fiery Kentuckian who served as ambassador to Russia under Lincoln, was an abolitionist, and married an 18 year old at 84. The man was truly amazing in many ways and no one knows this was THE Cassius Clay.

[Robeson]

10. Book: Sanctuary by William Faulkner, Movie Characters: Tie...

...between Sidney Portier and Rod Steiger for In the Heat of the Night.

[DrZeeLit]

12. Prince of Tides and anything by Conroy...The Great Santini, et al n/t

[Gardeaux08]

15. PRINCE OF TIDES!!!!

I loved that book. I read it before I saw the movie and all I can say is the movie is severely wanting.

[DrZeeLit]

21. I soooo agree with you on the movie.

Leaving out the white dolphin was ... what can I say?

[Gardeaux08]

25. Carolina Snow!!!!

I know that was awful to leave out. And Tom's grandfather...he was a story all by himself!

[amazona]

26. wonderful book

Movie? They made a movie?

:-)

Actually I did see it and it was just sad. Maybe you can't tell this story in a movie, who knows.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

17. Oh I LOVE this book!

My fave part being Tom telling off Herbert and his friends, defending the South.

[Gardeaux08]

13. Someone already mentioned today...

S.E. Hinton. Her books really defined the class struggle for me when I was a teenager.

[jdj]

14. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

a masterwork, and a great anti-war novel.

[Ivan Sputnik]

16. Anything by Flannery O'Connor

One of the best American short story writers.

Anybody read "A Good Man is Hard to Find"?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

18. Of course, the Misfit!

Excellent story.

[AndyHammond1970]

19. Ole Slingblade!!!!

I loved how folks called the man, the character, Slingblade instead of his name when refering to this movie.

I also love The Apostle! great movie


AH

[Joe Chi Minh]

20. Colonel Douglas Mortimer,

formerly, colonel of a regiment of sharpshooters in the Carolinas.

And even further South, Tuco.... Bang! "If you're gonna shoot, shoot! don't talk!" Unsolicited epitaph for someone he'd just shot, who'd been holding forth about what pleasure he was going to take in shooting Tuco.

Also, Charlie Wrangle. If he's a Southerner!

[Sabriel]

22. Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: "My mother is a fish."

Best chapter ever.

[trof]

23. One of my favorite authors.

[Joe Chi Minh]

29. There were

some hilarious passages in that book.

[Jack Schitt]

24. Jake Tyler Brigance

played by Matthew McConaughey in the movie "A Time to Kill".

I cannot forget those who stood up for equal rights in the Civil Rights Movement, from MLK to Rosa Parks. They all were/are great people!

[Shopaholic]

27. Steel Magnolias

Love that movie.

[Atlas Mugged]

28. A Confederacy of Dunces n/t

[davsand]

30. Ignatius!!! Is that you???

I do love that novel! I can't read it without laughing out loud at his fight with the hot dog vendor!


Laura

[chiburb]

31. "Blue Movie". a novel by Terry Southern.....n/t

[montana_hazeleyes]

32. Yes

I agree 100% Atticus. The movie and the book. That is of course if i'm just considering fiction.

[bettyellen]

33. ATTICUS FINCH, MY FIRST AND MOST ENDURING CRUSH !!

[Penndems]

34. Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter) in "Designing Women"

and Scarlett O'Hara. Two classy, sassy, intelligent, outspoken and sexy Southern Belles . . . like me. ;)

Favorite book: "A Confederacy of Dunces" and anything by Eudora Welty.

[NashVegas]

35. TV: American Gothic

dug that show.