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Feel-good black comedies flourished in the '40s (with music stars like Louis Jordan), the '70s (with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby) and the early '90s, when the House Party series added comic rap. But no one has filled the niche like Cube. "He owns that corner of the market now," says Michael De Luca, the DreamWorks executive who signed on to Friday when he was at New Line...
...thoughts on how African-American rage has been depicted onscreen since the 1940s. “At a certain point,” Mitchell said, “black people just stopped going to the movies because they were embarrassed about the way they were portrayed. Then Sydney Poitier won an Oscar for Lilies of the Field and they thought things might have changed. Ironically they hadn’t. Poitier won an Oscar for portraying an angry black man; something that had been going on for decades.” Mitchell was quick to point out that Denzel Washington?...
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...
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...