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When Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won Oscars in this year's much discussed Black Hollywood moment, they paid their respects to Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, not to Pam Grier and Richard Roundtree. In the remembrances of African-American cinema past that followed, there wasn't much tribute to Foxy Brown, Superfly or Hell Up in Harlem. Blaxploitation - the genre of small-budget, big-action and bigger-Afro movies that flourished in the early to mid-'70s - has been something of an embarrassment to Hollywood and the black intelligentsia alike. (The term black exploitation was popularized by mainline African...
Oscar Night, exactly a month ago, was a proud moment for African-American actors. A Life Achievement award to Sidney Poitier; Best Actor laurels to Denzel Washington; and the Best Actress statue to Halle Berry. In her emotional acceptance speech, Berry shook off the happy heaves and dedicated her prize to a sorority of splendid sisters: Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll, Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, Viveca Fox and "every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened...
...list of favored candidates included Madonna, as well as Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Robert De Niro, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld and former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, among others...
Almost from the start, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry seemed headed for a Hollywood ending. In 1989, when I had just graduated from college and Washington had just matriculated to stardom, I interviewed him about a new movie he was set to star in called Glory. "I think this movie is good for the country," said Washington, who would go on to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Trip, a Union soldier in the Civil War. Two years later, I interviewed another young rising star named Halle Berry, who was co-starring in a comedy about...
ALTERNATE ENDING The original version ends in a hail of gunfire. In the new ending, young cop Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) confronts a couple of baddies associated with his evil partner, Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington), and gets to speak his piece...