Word: baldwinism
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Thus Crouch dismisses black filmmaker Spike Lee as a "middle-class would-be street Negro." He puts down Toni Morrison's moving novel Beloved as no more than an effort "to enter American slavery into the big-time martyr ratings contest." He castigates James Baldwin for undermining the moral basis of the civil rights movement with essays that "transformed white America into Big Daddy and the Negro movement into an obnoxious, pouting adolescent demanding the car keys...
...climb began in Massapequa, N.Y., where Alexander Baldwin was one of six children born to a high school English teacher and his wife. Zander, as Alec's family calls him, was a good student, a talented lacrosse and football player, a compulsive movie watcher. Acting was not supposed to be an option, but after he enrolled at George Washington University with an eye toward law school, his vision of life at the bar ate at him: "I saw everything laid out in front of me, on a conveyor belt." He transferred to New York University's acting school, and within...
...Baldwin did TV, regional theater and Broadway (Loot). He worked hard and wide; he was everywhere and invisible at the same time. In 1988 he appeared in widely varying guises in four substantial movies: Beetlejuice, Married to the Mob, Working Girl and Talk Radio. In this movie equivalent of repertory theater Baldwin didn't make a big splash -- it was more a series of pleasant ripples -- but the roles enabled him to parade his versatility and apprentice with top directors. He insinuated his presence rather than asserting...
Still, Hollywood remembered him. Married to the Mob (directed by Jonathan Demme) led to Miami Blues (co-produced by Demme). Costner said no to Red October, and Baldwin got the job. Now he has a Woody Allen movie in the hopper. And after Prelude to a Kiss he will vacate his Manhattan apartment (where he lives alone after the breakup of a recent romance) to shoot Neil Simon's Marrying Man in Los Angeles. In the film he plays a satyric bachelor who falls in love with Kim Basinger on the eve of his wedding...
...luck," Baldwin observes. "When you turn a part down, they hate your guts -- until they want something else from you. Then they love you again. I feel sorry for someone who doesn't know this for a year or two and ends up with footprints on his forehead." For a newcomer in movies, he says, "the train pulls out at 12:01. You're on it or you're not. The greatest ^ plateau in Hollywood is when they hold the train for you." This is scrappy, Irish-Catholic Long Island talking. In his own voice. Acerbic, confident, knowing that Hollywood...