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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...
Television gave us the Munsters, the Sopranos, the Osbournes. Now, reaching a new pinnacle of familial weirdness, it's given us the Voight-Jolie-Thorntons. Actor JON VOIGHT wept last week while he told TV's Access Hollywood he wanted to get "help" for his daughter, Oscar-winning actress ANGELINA JOLIE. He said he always sensed that her recently collapsed marriage to actor-director Billy Bob Thornton was destined to fail, because of "problems" the couple has "been public about." (He was probably alluding to Thornton's confessions that he has weathered bouts of depression.) Jolie met therapy-speak with...
...firm specializing in action sports, 16% to 22% of the country's 2.4 million surfers are female, and the percentage of women surfing every day has more than doubled in the past three years. "We've come a long way since Gidget," says Board-Trac managing director Marie Case. Hollywood has picked up on the trend; Disney's Lilo & Stitch and Universal's Blue Crush, both of which celebrate female surfing, may make riding the waves even more popular...
...gloss on the side. Maybe it combines too much. Crouching Tiger, conceived like a dream by director Ang Lee, managed to incarnate a China straight out of a storybook?a very Chinese storybook. The Touch has China everywhere in the background?golden deserts, Tibetan mountains, endless blue skies?but Hollywood action in the forefront. The cinematic mating of East and West is far advanced?but some of the offspring look a little strange...
...that incendiary night at the Brooklyn Paramount - March 28, 1958 - JLL could reasonably expect he might soon be the most popular of the four. "Breathless," his follow-up to "Great Balls of Fire," was chugging up the charts. His next single would be the theme song to a (minor) Hollywood film, "High School Confidential." And in May he would begin a headlining tour of Great Britain. A star was born. A star prevails...