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...PAUL ROBESON. The script is uncritical idolatry, but Avery Brooks (Spenser: For Hire) gives this one-man Broadway show a dignity, emotional force and singing voice as awesome as the American original he recreates...
...PAUL ROBESON. The script is uncritical idolatry, but Avery Brooks (Spenser: For Hire) gives this one-man Broadway show a dignity, emotional force and singing voice as awesome as the American original...
...many ways, they embody competing cultures within the black community. Bond's father and grandfather were both college presidents, and on the wall of his headquarters are pictures of him as a boy with such people as W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson. He went to a predominantly white prep school in Pennsylvania, then studied English at Morehouse College. Lewis was one of ten children born to a rural sharecropper. He grew up wanting to be a minister -- he used to preach funerals for the chickens on the farm -- and attended a Baptist seminary. Bond and Lewis...
...worse, and it has been. In D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915), the major Negro roles were played by whites in blackface. Hollywood's first black star, Stepin Fetchit, fitted the stereotype of the slow, sly, shuffling Negro. Meanwhile, the industry mostly ignored Paul Robeson (too strong, too smart, too sexy, too damned uppity) and denied Lena Horne her best potential movie roles, as the mulatto heroines of Pinky and Show Boat, handing the parts instead to Jeanne Crain and Ava Gardner. It was not until the rise to stardom of Sidney Poitier...
...mean mutant brother. By the show's climax, it envelops the stage and (gasp!) most of the audience. This is a carnivore with its own intimidating charm, thanks to clever manipulation by Martin P. Robinson and the voice of Ron Taylor, who sounds like Paul Robeson crossed with an air-raid siren...