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Starring Adrian Grenier, Sarah Michelle Geller and Joey Lawrence Adams, the movie has finally made its way to the big screen after eight years of casting troubles, studio bankruptcy and failed distribution deals...

Author: By Michelle Kung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Man Premiers Tonight at Brattle | 5/17/2002 | See Source »

...famed director of Malcolm X decided he didn’t want to let the aspiring screenwriter go—and he offered Kessler the chance to adapt the play for the screen...

Author: By Anat Maytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Thesis Writers Find Unexpected Rewards | 5/17/2002 | See Source »

...even the musical scenes, featuring North Texas jazzman Red Calhoun, move at the turtle tempo of Hollywood's favorite black of the period, Stepin Fetchit. And there were technical gaffes galore: in a late-night scene in "Dirty Gertie," actress Francine Everett clicks on a bedside lamp and the screen actually darkens for a moment before full lights finally come up. Yet at least one Williams film, his debut "Blood of Jesus" (1941), has a naive grandeur to match its subject. A morality play about an angel and a devil fighting for a woman's soul, it begins with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Cinema: Micheaux Must Go On | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...Thus began one of the most bustling, inspiring, preposterous and sustained bursts of misdirected energy in movie history. Over the next 30 years, Micheaux helmed about 23 silent films and 17 talking pictures. A full-service auteur, he typically adapted one of his own novels for the screen, directed it, produced it and released it. He financed the films by showing a previous work and a synopsis of his next project to exhibitors, friends, strangers on the street and the occasional Negro businessman. And when the film was ready, he peddled it theater door to theater door. (Sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Cinema: Micheaux Must Go On | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

Motorola's snazzy new V70 cell phone, available later this month through Cingular, doesn't flip open, doesn't slide open; it swivels open. Its cover actually rotates around its circular screen. But it's not just a pretty face: the V70 packs a 500-name phone book, a calendar, Internet access and text messaging. And if all that doesn't turn heads, there's always the price: an eye-popping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology May 13, 2002 | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

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