"When I showed her my well-worn copy of Stormy Weather she reacted in a way I hadn't anticipated, she was offended by it--hurt, even. Why was everybody black? It was unkind, she said, to have only black people in a film, it wasn't fair. Maybe in America you could do that, but not here, in England, where everybody was equal anyway and there was no need to "go on about it." And"