Word: amistad
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...life and death are the stuff of movie legend, and a poignant cautionary tale for the audience that adored her. Thus even before she gets an hour-long Biography, she is the subject of a careful, doting biography--film historian Donald Bogle's Dorothy Dandridge (Amistad Press; 613 pages; $27.95)--and of a contest among black stars to play her onscreen. It is the hottest bio-pic property for a black actress since Lady Sings the Blues, the story of Billie Holiday--a doomed figure Dandridge had for years yearned to play...
...never would have known of the opportunity if he hadn't received an e-mail notifying members of collegiate African student associations that Spielberg was seeking young West African males for a film on the 1839 mutiny and subsequent capture of a slave ship, La Amistad...
These codes require him to govern his behavior and control his actions. He doesn't drink, really, except once with the "Amistad" cast in Newport and once on his twenty-first birthday...
...Ashong's life has unfolded so far, it seems like it just might. Unexpectedly, of course, haphazardly, and at the last minute, in true Ashong style. Getting the role in "Amistad" seemed less destiny than accident, a series of circumstances that collapsed into place...
Henderson, a recent Harvard grad who had actually written his thesis on the capture of the Amistad, was working closely with Spielberg on all aspects of the movie. He decided he was going to make sure this Harvard kid got some kind of part in the film...