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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Ken Nagelberg <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 8 Apr 91 22:49:17 CDT
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    Okay, you got me curious now...so here's the official story.
    The yellow ribbon phenomenon is based on an actual occurrence in which
a man arrives home from prison on a bus.  One of the other passengers on the
bus wrote a letter describing what happened to the New York Post and columnist
Pete Hamill wrote it up as a story.  The story later appeared in Reader's
Digest (1971).  The Tony Orlando song was released in 1973.  No mention of
a James Earl Jones TV version though in any of my research.  Interesting note,
though...It has recently been remade into a Japanese film entitled "Yellow
Handkerchief."  Ah, the Global Village...

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