Word: marlone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours before a Bengals game. The previous night, the Clinton camp had lost an almost irreplaceable resource: the candidate's voice. By early Sunday morning Clinton was, as issues director Bruce Reed put it, "the real candidate of the Silent Majority." Taking the stage, he sounded like Marlon Brando in The Godfather and spoke for 21 seconds, a personal record for brevity. "Bad. It's bad," he gasped. "I'm going to let Hillary say something." She delivered a brief speech filled with the pronoun "we." Afterward a reporter cracked to a Clinton aide, "I thought Mrs. Wilson's speech...
Film-maker Marlon Riggs' and writer Ron Simmons' contribution, entitled "Sexuality, Television and Death: A Black Gay Dialogue on Malcolm X" draws similarly surprising conclusions from Malcolm's ideas. In a subtle discussion, Riggs' and Simmons' pride in Malcolm is tempered by a disappointment in his celebration of a rigid definition of Black manhood. They criticize the ways in which his critique of racism remained rooted in repressive, conventional views on gender and sexuality. They speak of him as both a burden and an inspiration...
...historian Adolph Reed, Jr. criticizes the same artists for "spew[ing] garbled compounds of half-truth, distortion, Afrocentric drivel, and crackerbarrel wisdom." Amiri Baraka, in his uneven but driving essay, inveighs against Spike Lee's forthcoming film, calling it part of the "black bourgeoisie's attack on Malcolm X." Marlon Riggs later labels Baraka's approach mere "rhetoric...
Among his inspirations, Damon cites Marlon Brando, who he calls "a genius. There's no other way to put it. He's the best actor I've ever seen." Other greats are Meryl Streep. Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Alec Baldwin. He would "love to work with any of these actors...
...Marlon Riggs may be the most notorious unknown filmmaker in America. A lecturer at the University of California's Graduate School of Journalism in Berkeley, he was the producer of Tongues Untied, a film about black homosexuals that aired on pbs last summer and became a cause celebre after being attacked by conservatives for its "offensive" material. The film -- an offbeat, heartfelt mix of documentary, poetry and performance art -- did not deserve the abuse. But the brouhaha may have the unintended benefit of alerting more viewers to Riggs' impressive new offering: Color Adjustment, a provocative look...