Word: colorizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deny its existence. When asked about their tendency to call white players smarter and Black players better athletes, several prominent broadcasters, almost all of them white, point to specific cases where the stereotype is true--cases where the Black is the better natural athlete--and insist that they are color-blind when they call the games...
...occasions. Like the April 6, 1987 episode of Nightline, when Los Angeles Dodger executive Al Campanis said that Blacks "may not have some of the necessities" to be managers or general managers. The show, ironically, was devoted to the 40th anniversary of the day Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier...
...after the New York City blackout and filmed the looting. Even then, Lee's cinematic eye was drawn to the absurdity of events that unfolded around him. "In a lot of ways it was funny to me, like Christmas," he says. "People were walking out of stores with color...
...Director Harold Guskin, a noted acting coach, has coaxed his players into charm and clarity in telling myriad tales of mistaken identity, most of which turn on the interchangeability of gender. Mastrantonio lacks the requisite androgyny but is otherwise faultless. Woodard, one of four black leads chosen in admirably color-blind casting, excels at seductive banter, and Andre Braugher is thrillingly intense as a pirate who risks his life to help a shipwrecked princeling. Hines serves mostly as a vaudevillian onlooker whose antics are a reminder that he is the premier tap dancer...
...countess Olivia. Jeff Goldblum (The Fly) is her pettish steward Malvolio, John Amos (Roots) her drunken uncle Sir Toby Belch and Gregory Hines (The Cotton Club) Toby's companion in ribaldry, the jester Feste. Stephen Collins (Tattinger's) is the duke who desires Olivia, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (The Color of Money) the girl-masquerading-as- a -pageboy sent to plead his case. Among other screen and stage stalwarts rounding out the troupe is Charlaine Woodard (Ain't Misbehavin') as the merrily scheming maid Maria...