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...subsequent McCree Review Committee in 1972 have endeavored to bring to Harvard's Department of Afro-American Studies. Professor Genovese is simply one of the several most innovative and profound scholars in the field of Afro-American Studies, having captured the most coveted prize in American history--the Bancroft Prize (1975) of the American Historical Association--for his monumental work, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974). And equally creative is his most recent work, From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World (1979). I might add that Professor Genovese...
...Anne Bancroft...
This is at least an original-the first movie in which the drama derives mainly from an overweight individual's attempts to diet. That point stipulated, however, it's hard to find much else of an encouraging nature to say about Anne Bancroft's debut as a writer and director...
...part agreeably, but one never comes to care much about him. Dieting may be a compelling matter for someone trying to lose weight, but it is not ever of much interest to bystanders. DeLuise's character is just a dreary man in a drab milieu. Most of Bancroft's staging seems a desperate attempt to narrow the distance between actor and auditors, but it comes out merely as frenzy. And there are far too many close-ups of the food that keeps tempting her fat friend. -Richard Schickel
...witnessed the Russian Revolution in 1917 and wrote about it in Ten Days that Shook the World. One of the most sensational biographies of all involves Joan Crawford's daughter Christina, even now beavering away on a screenplay version of her best-selling assault on Joan, with Anne Bancroft tentatively booked to play Bad Mama. Broadway has not escaped the trend, and there are plans for plays based on the lives of Dorothy Parker, United Mine Workers Czar John L. Lewis, Singer Josephine Baker and Marie Dressier, a star...