{"id":58805,"date":"2019-09-01T02:44:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T02:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58805"},"modified":"2019-09-01T02:44:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T02:44:34","slug":"the-tale-of-hollywoods-most-curious-career-imposter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58805","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of Hollywood\u2019s Most Curious Career Imposter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\/2019\/07\/11\/the-tale-of-hollywoods-most-curious-career-imposter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Tale of Hollywood\u2019s Most Curious Career Imposter<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Messy Nessy: Cabinet of Chic Curiosities<\/a><br \/>\n2019-07-11<\/p>\n<p><strong>Francky Knapp<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\/2019\/07\/11\/the-tale-of-hollywoods-most-curious-career-imposter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-171585\" src=\"https:\/\/static.messynessychic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/image056.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption><small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korla_Pandit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Korla Pandit<\/a> (John Roland Redd)<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sex sells, and it sells even better with a dash of mystery. For every housewife in mid-century <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America<\/a>, the enigmatic charm of Indian performer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korla_Pandit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Korla Pandit<\/a> was the ticket to getting weak in the knees before the kids came home from school. In the 15 minutes allotted to <em>The Korla Pandit Program<\/em>, the performer brought a scintillating new rhythm to suburbia\u2019s ho-hum beat. Every week, he\u2019d grace the small screen and play the sultry sounds of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Misirlou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miserlou<\/a> with a coy smile, wearing a bejewelled turban, and flashing those soul-searching bedroom eyes. It was all part of his schtick, of course, and one of the most strangest in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinema_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood<\/a> history, given that Pandit wasn\u2019t Indian, but African American. Today, the persona he created opens up a dialogue about race, fame, and surprising flexibility of truth&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\/2019\/07\/11\/the-tale-of-hollywoods-most-curious-career-imposter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-171590\" src=\"https:\/\/static.messynessychic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/904655745-930x598.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" \/><\/a><figcaption><small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korla_Pandit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Korla Pandit<\/a> (John Roland Redd) as a child<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\/2019\/07\/11\/the-tale-of-hollywoods-most-curious-career-imposter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the persona he created opens up a dialogue about race, fame, and surprising flexibility of truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,459,8,6462,20],"tags":[455,30190,6857,21089,21088,787,30192,30191,773,1392,778],"class_list":["post-58805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-california","tag-francky-knapp","tag-hollywood","tag-john-roland-redd","tag-korla-pandit","tag-los-angeles","tag-messy-nessy","tag-messy-nessy-cabinet-of-chic-curiosities","tag-missouri","tag-music","tag-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58806,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58805\/revisions\/58806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}