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I tell you what, if I had a freeway runnin' through my front yard I wouldn't think I had it so good.
What if you were Native American and saw this commercial? 
NOV 10, 2006 11:31 PM
tallboy66 said:
What if you were Native American and saw this commercial?
NOV 11, 2006 08:22 AM
NOV 12, 2006 06:01 PM
You have broken my heart, Mr. Mellencamp. You have broken my heart. 
stella_marie
New York, NY
January 2005
NOV 12, 2006 07:03 PM
Cash
USA
OLD SKOOL
NOV 12, 2006 07:08 PM
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JohnClement
Silver Spring, MD
January 2004
NOV 12, 2006 07:16 PM
NOV 12, 2006 07:17 PM
dkmfc said:
Cash said:
I actually remember that commercial.
and if I remember correctly, he's not really what they portray him to be.
Good call.
from IMDB:
"Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera DeCorti, the son of two first-generation immigrants from Italy. In 1924 he moved to California, changed his name - already shortened from "DeCorti" to "Corti" - to Cody, and started working as an actor, presenting himself as a Native American. He married an Indian woman, Bertha Parker, and together they adopted two Indian sons. Iron Eyes Cody lived and worked as an Indian for all his adult life; he labored for decades to promote Native American causes, and was honored by Hollywood's Native American community in 1995 for his efforts."
"He was the Indian who sheds a tear for a blighted American environment in "Keep America Beautiful" ads that ran from 1971 into the 1980s."
i remember it also, it must have played a lot in Jersey. 
NOV 12, 2006 07:18 PM
dkmfc said:
Cash said:
I actually remember that commercial.
and if I remember correctly, he's not really what they portray him to be.
http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/ironeyes.htm
That "crying Indian," as he would later sometimes be referred to, was Iron Eyes Cody, an actor who throughout his life claimed to be of Cherokee/Cree extraction. Yet his asserted ancestry was just as artificial as the tear that rolled down his cheek in that television spot %u2014 the tear was glycerine, and the "Indian" a second-generation Italian-American.
Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera DeCorti on 3 April 1904 in the small town of Kaplan, Louisiana. He was the son of Francesca Salpietra and Antonio DeCorti, she an immigrant from Sicily who had arrived in the USA in 1902, and he another immigrant who had arrived in America not long before her.
NOV 12, 2006 07:19 PM
NOV 12, 2006 07:22 PM
Shalome said:
dkmfc said:
Cash said:
I actually remember that commercial.
and if I remember correctly, he's not really what they portray him to be.
http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/ironeyes.htm
That "crying Indian," as he would later sometimes be referred to, was Iron Eyes Cody, an actor who throughout his life claimed to be of Cherokee/Cree extraction. Yet his asserted ancestry was just as artificial as the tear that rolled down his cheek in that television spot %u2014 the tear was glycerine, and the "Indian" a second-generation Italian-American.
Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera DeCorti on 3 April 1904 in the small town of Kaplan, Louisiana. He was the son of Francesca Salpietra and Antonio DeCorti, she an immigrant from Sicily who had arrived in the USA in 1902, and he another immigrant who had arrived in America not long before her.
Damn, then that was some Oscar worthy acting!
NOV 12, 2006 07:24 PM
Shalome said:
Damn! LuLuKittyFoo beat me to it!
Ha ha! but they will reply to you.
NOV 12, 2006 07:25 PM
_pandahontas_ said:
Damn, then that was some Oscar worthy acting!
sounds like a lifetime achievement to me. 
PointBlank
New York, NY
November 2004
NOV 10, 2006 09:39 AM