Word: amiri
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amiri Baraka...
Dutchman is, in many ways, a historical watermark. Written in the 60s by Amiri Baraka, the play is a radical case study of relations between the sexes across color lines, It's still particularly relevant and unfortunately may not be coming back to the Harvard stage anytime soon...
Part of the problem is her physical presence on the stage. Instead of the "tall, slender, beautiful woman with long red hair hanging straight down her back" Amiri Baraka describes, Cohen is slight and much shorter than McNeal...
...insiders call it, won't be released until the Christmas season. But already Lee has fought off rival attempts to make the film, wrangled with the poet Amiri Baraka (once known as LeRoi Jones) and other black nationalists about how their hero should be portrayed on the screen, knocked heads with Warner Bros. over how much money and playing time are needed to tell Malcolm's story, and lost financial control of the project. "I knew this was going to be the toughest thing I ever did," he says, sitting wearily in his editing room. "The film is huge...