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...Last June, Roger's Nile or Niagara of words stopped, as he directed his energy to fighting complications of cancer of the salivary gland that had been troubling him for a few years. He spent a lot of time being treated in hospitals and recovering at home. Last month he missed his first Cannes Film Festival in, I'm guessing, 30 years. But in late April he did show up, resolute and cheerful, at the Roger Ebert Overlooked Film Festival - yes, he also runs his own Ebertfest, or uberfest - at his alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
Ogletree writes: “These tenets became the basis of the Niagara movement, founded by a small group of African-American intellectuals critical of Washington; it in turn spawned the NAACP...
Brooks writes on page 129 of his book: “These tenets would become the foundation of the Niagara Movement, founded by a small group of African American intellectuals critical of Washington; it would in turn spawn the NAACP...
That similarity is striking because both Brooks and Ogletree quote Du Bois out of order. In his 1905 Niagara Movement address, Du Bois mentioned free speech first, education sixth, “manhood suffrage” third, and “caste distinctions” fourth...
...Niagara Motel doesn't exactly sound like a barrel of laughs. But here's the funny part: the sophomore effort from Winnipeg-based director Gary Yates (2004's Seven Times Lucky) is a comedy, albeit of the dark kind. And it works a bit in the same way that Niagara Falls succeeds as a tourist destination: it's wonderful if you can focus on the main attraction while disregarding the garish environment around...