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...that hummed with the rhythms of the way people really talk, a powerful story and the reassuring message that parental love and guidance can still rescue black youths from drugs, gangs and the despair of the inner city. Last month the filmmaker received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director. He is the first African American and the youngest person ever nominated for an Oscar in the directors' category...
Away from the high pressure world of the Ivy League, he finally had some free time to write. He worked with a producer, who then hired him to write a screenplay. Ross said that this job "was actually a real luxury, getting paid to write for somebody...
...group Public Enemy. Making a movie to satisfy all these constituencies would seem an impossible task. At various times since producer Marvin Worth sewed up the rights in 1968, novelists James Baldwin and David Bradley and playwrights David Mamet and Charles Fuller tried their hand at writing a screenplay. Actors Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor expressed interest in playing Malcolm, and Sidney Lumet and Norman Jewison considered directing. But nobody wanted to do the film more than...
...saucy nightclub gigs and a fleeting appearance on the I Love Lucy show (reconstructed here with artfully interpolated footage of the brothers, Lucille Ball and, standing in for his dad, Desi Arnaz Jr.). But theirs is a ^ story of wanting, not necessarily getting. In Cynthia Cidre's witty, synoptic screenplay, The Mambo Kings becomes a parable about the intoxication of dreaming of success; it's The Commitments with a Cuban accent...
While the original role of the movie cinematic propaganda may be dated, the screenplay continues to be captivating, as over the course of the movie, the viewer becomes tied to the fate of Garson. Mrs. Miniver won six academy awards in 1942, including Best Picture and Best Actress...