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...DIED. JOHNNY GRIFFITH, 66, classically trained musician and pioneering keyboard wizard for the 1960s Motown band Funk Brothers, who played on legendary hits such as the Supremes' Stop in the Name of Love and Marvin Gaye's I Heard It Through the Grapevine; in Detroit. As one of the pioneers of the Motown sound, a fusion of soul, gospel and pop, Griffith and the Funk Brothers have had a lasting impact on popular music trends through the past four decades...
...outbreak 52% of all people disciplined in the U.K. for workplace infractions were punished for e-mail and Net-related abuses, two-thirds of them involving porn, says an industry study 15 young girls from the streets of Calcutta will be invited to live in Hollywood actress Melanie Griffith's home as a philanthropic gesture, the actress announced at a charity dinner in France 600 tons of chemical agents might be stockpiled in Iraq, say U.N. weapons experts 170 choirs worldwide will mark the Sept. 11 anniversary by performing Mozart's Requiem at 8:46 a.m. in each...
...there was only one black man with the drive and doggedness to write, produce, direct, finance and distribute his own films. That was Oscar Micheaux, the first black to direct a silent feature, and the first to direct a talkie feature. In so many ways, Micheaux was the D.W. Griffith of race cinema. And also its Edward D. Wood...
...afraid to cozy up to him for fear she was too light for him. The original film climaxed in a sequence advertised as "the annihilation of the Ku Klux Klan." Alas, those anti-"Birth of a Nation" scenes have not survived. But the film shows what Micheaux learned from Griffith: melodrama, at full throttle...
...over he filmed the scenario of a light-skinned women passing as white, and a dark-skinned man ignoring a women of his own shade to aspire to that wan princess. Her lightness put her atop the hierarchy of virtue or, at least, of perceived romantic appeal. Like Griffith, Micheaux's feminine ideal seemed to be prim, virginal Lillian Gish; he insisted that his actresses wear chalk makeup to make them seem whiter, lighter - Gishier. "The first offense of the new film is its persistent vaunting of intra-racial color fetishism, "wrote the black critic Theophilus Lewis, reviewing...