Word: rosenbush
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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Ironically, the idea for Bus did not originate with blacks but with Jewish producer Barry Rosenbush, who sensed the movie potential in a television-news story about the bonding that occurred among a group of black men from Los Angeles who met on a bus trip to the march. But, as Lee puts it, Rosenbush and his partner, Bill Borden, quickly realized that "being Jewish, it would have been very hard for them to pull it off without some brothers up in there." Rosenbush and Borden recruited Reuben Cannon, an African American and one of Hollywood's top casting directors...
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