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...understand the context for Berry's remarks, and to find true resilience under pressure, you have to look not only at the few opportunities for blacks in mainstream product but at the B-minus movies called "race films." Here you will discover the Negro Leagues of cinema: separate and unequal facilities that showcased America's most gifted and excluded minority...
...small, sturdy shelf of books about race films. Here are a few from my own shelves: Thomas Cripps' "Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942" (mostly about 30s Hollywood's view of race relations); John Kisch and Edward Mapp's "A Separate Cinema," replete with hundreds of color reproductions of movie posters and a good Bogle introduction; and Henry T. Sampson's invaluable "Blacks in Black & White: A Source Book on Black Films," which offers the most detailed history of the companies that produced black-cast films and the personalities who made them fascinating...
...Hollywood wouldn't let Washington pass for white (not that she tried to); it hadn't the ingenuity or the balls to use her talent and charisma to her and the cinema's full advantage. She was a movie star without movies - in films for just a few years in the early sound era, and then only in those vagrant moments when a studio chose to do a movie about "passing...
That tone may suit an America itching for quick solutions to thorny global issues. But it doesn't make for a truly adult cinema about complex men and women. And for that, there's no simple recipe...
...DIED. MARIA FELIX, 88, sultry screen siren of Mexican cinema's golden age whose career spanned 47 films; in Mexico City. Best known for classics of the 40s and 50s like Dona Barbara, La Cucaracha and Enamorada, Felix married four times and had numerous lovers, the painter Diego Rivera among them. In the words of President Vicente Fox: "As an artist she gave everything to Mexico." DIED. YU CHI-CHUNG, 92, mainland-born founding publisher of Taiwan's China Times who followed Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists to the island,but later stepped afoul of the KMT party line...