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![Yaphet Kotto: "Blue Collar" | Interviews | Roger Ebert](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4488daef-34a4-40d7-8fda-2a0cfad7e6a7_504x280.jpeg "Yaphet Kotto: "Blue Collar" | Interviews | Roger Ebert")
It’s fashionable these days on both the Left and Right to look back with nostalgia on post-war America as a kind of Golden Age of the American working class, when unions insured good wages that could support families with one bread-winner. Blue Collar (1978), Taxi Driver-writer Paul Schrader’s directorial debut is, set at the tail-end of that era, befor…