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...also uncomfortable with questions about her private life, though it's clear that long before playing Connie, Lane had firsthand knowledge of complicated women. Her grandmother was a Pentecostal preacher; her mother is a former Playboy Bunny. Lane herself is a single mom. (She and her ex-husband, actor Christopher Lambert, have an 8-year-old daughter.) She has absolutely no comment on her current boyfriend, actor Josh Brolin: "Who cares who I'm dating? I'm not Madonna." She says nothing about him but blushes at the mention of his name. "Doesn't that say it all?" she asks...
...most films aimed at blacks, Micheaux's were movies about blackness (sort of - I'll get to that shortly). The 1925 "Body and Soul," which I discussed in my last That Old Feeling column, has a robust narrative that nearly matches the charismatic presence of Paul Robeson as a preacher who charms, abuses and steals from his congregation of womenfolk. "The Symbol of the Unconquered" (1921) is a rambling, mostly charming love story about a black man who loves a light-skinned black woman but is afraid to propose to her for fear of rejection, as she was afraid...
...always concerned about money as a printer traveling in the world of planters and fur traders. So, when the deist Franklin was offered a chance to print the pamphlets of the great fire and brimstone preacher, Jonathan Edwards, he had no reservations about being the largest distributor of Great Awakening propaganda. In a later controversy, Franklin was eager to print colonial paper money not because it would facilitate economic growth, but because he knew that as a printer, he’d get some of the cut for printing out the cash...
...time All-American and the school valedictorian, exhorting his classmates to "catch a new vision." Robeson did. Four years later he was starring for O'Neill, giving the first concert composed entirely of songs by African Americans and playing the two lead roles (as a philandering preacher and his sweet-souled brother) in Oscar Micheaux's silent film "Body and Soul...
According to Jeffrey Barneson, a chaplain with the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Campolo—an evangelical Baptist preacher and professor of sociology—suffered a stroke on Saturday, April 6 while travelling from Honolulu, Hawaii, and spent the night in an area hospital...