This episode is covered in great detail in Patric's work entitled " Simon Legree's Book " as well as " The Austin Statesman " and " Austin Daily Dispatch " newspaper articles of the time.
32.
Vore is cast as Simon Legree, complete with damsel in distress ( a photo of a woman with downcast eyes ) : " Sheriff Dave Vore is running for office . . . But is he running away from his past ?"
33.
What if his slightly less noble guardian, a long way after Atticus Finch, is a lawyer who barely grasps the conflict of interest inherent in running in the political machine of the resident Simon Legree, whose son he is defending in a racially tinged hit-and-run case?
34.
We have lived with its images _ the archetype of that noble black Christian slave, Uncle Tom, and the stereotype of that groveling black Christian toady, Uncle Tom; the harrowingly good Little Eva and the harrowingly bad Topsy, and the demonic villainy of Simon Legree _ as they moved from melodrama to minstrelsy to stylistic infamy.
35.
When Latifah's gutsy, large-hearted lesbian garage owner and part-time auto thief leaves her fingerprints on some CDs she discards from a car they steal, McGinley's Simon Legree steps up his bloodhounding and the pressure escalates _ but not before the four friends get giddy on a rooftop _ as high on their mutual loyalty as their loot.
