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Word: baadaasssss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1972-1972
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Cotton had merely been a successful novelty for Hollywood. Then, in Sweet Sweetback's Baadaasssss Song, Melvin Van Peebles gave white film makers a revelation, earning several million with a low-budget opus that was furiously and uncompromisingly black. But it was Shaft that put the message across. Photographer-Author-Composer Gordon Parks' action film about a black New York James Bond cost $500,000 and was one of three movies that made any profit for MGM last year: an astonishing $ 13 million gross in the U.S. alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Black Market | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

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