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...product, it was white people taking the pictures. They imitated the Hollywood genres of comedy, melodrama, musicals and Westerns. Race movies were counterfeit white movies - faux-ofay. And though the producers surely didn't intend to offend their customers, black-cast pictures flaunted racial stereotypes: idle bucks spending the rent money on dice games and numbers policies, and the women who love them. In the 1939 "Moon Over Harlem," directed by B-movie cult fave Edgar G. Ulmer and written by his wife Shirley, a brassy woman at a wedding reception announces, "When I get married again, I'm gonna...
...become a "theme park," with its peddling of Nixon-and-Elvis T shirts and its use for proms, bar mitzvahs and weddings. "Impress your guests," one ad says, "by serving a state dinner prepared by a chef to five Presidents." A bride wanting that Rose Garden glow can Rent-A-Gazebo, the same one beneath which Tricia said, "I do," to Edward Cox, the New York lawyer who many think is behind Tricia's efforts...
This is why Julia Turner Lowe and her ex-husband Bill Lowe have decided to continue paying their daughter's rent and some living expenses through the end of this year and, if necessary, into 2003--to the tune of $1,000 a month. They are anticipating that their child Naima, 23, who graduates from Brown University this month and wants to follow in the family footsteps of teaching, will need time to find a job, even if she's likely to land one eventually in that growth sector. For now, Turner Lowe is holding off taking any summer trips...
...We’re paid really well, but at the same time I can’t really pay rent,” says Nadine Knight, a third-year graduate student in the English department...
...become a "theme park," with its peddling of Nixon-and-Elvis T shirts and its use for proms, bar mitzvahs and weddings. "Impress your guests," one ad says, "by serving a state dinner prepared by a chef to five Presidents." A bride wanting that Rose Garden glow can Rent-A-Gazebo, the same one beneath which Tricia said, "I do," to Edward Cox, the New York lawyer who many think is behind Tricia's efforts...