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...glance down at the pavement. There you will see three consecutive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte and Oscar Micheaux. You recognize two of the names. The tan tantalizer Dandridge was the first black to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar ("Carmen Jones," 1955); Belafonte was and is the cool, sexy actor-singer with a half-century's radiance. But Micheaux? Considering his instructively bizarre, virtually anonymous career, no one would have expected Micheaux to achieve this celebrity in cement. No one but Micheaux himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Cinema: Micheaux Must Go On | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...movie in Warner’s lineup, Scooby Doo is a rehashing of the cartoon classic that mixes live action with animation. Sarah Michelle Gellar, naturally, is Daphne, Freddie Prinze Jr. is Fred Jones, and the ever-typecasted (as moron) Matthew Lillard is Shaggy. Unfortunately for the world, Carmen Elektra or Cindy Crawford will NOT be playing Velma...

Author: By Vijay A. Bal, Matthew Callahan, Clint J. Froehlich, Tiffany I. Hsieh, Steven N. Jacobs, Michelle Kung, Amelia E. Lester, and Benjamin J. Soskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Sink or Swim? | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

...went back to New York. She co-founded the Negro Actors Guild of America and wrote theater reviews for The People's Voice, published by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., who was at the time married to Isabelle. Later Fredi was a casting consultant on the Dorothy Dandridge-starring films "Carmen Jones" and "Porgy and Bess," the most lavish black-cast musicals of the 50s. She devoted most of her productive life to civil rights causes that tried to redress the indignities she and others had suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Basic Black | 4/24/2002 | See Source »

...first of the three women showcased is Carmen Gaudin, a friend of the artist and the subject of a wide variety of works from sketches to oil paintings. The earliest of the six paintings, “Carmen Gaudin” (1884) is a formal, stark portrayal of the redheaded model, who wears a black dress and poses against a black background. She is not confrontational; her gaze falls somewhere above the head of the viewer. In “Carmen Gaudin in the Artist’s Studio” (1888), the subject stares directly at the viewer from...

Author: By Georgia E. Walle, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fogg Exhibit Reunites Three Parisian Women | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...disappointed when Wordsworth closed,” said customer Carmen Christy, a former resident of Cambridge. But she is happy to see the opening of Blank...

Author: By Lesley W. Ma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Quirky Gift Shop Opens in Square | 4/2/2002 | See Source »

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