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Cotton had merely been a successful novelty for Hollywood. Then, in Sweet Sweetback's Baadaasssss Song, Melvin Van Peebles gave white film makers a revelation, earning several million with a low-budget opus that was furiously and uncompromisingly black. But it was Shaft that put the message across. Photographer-Author-Composer Gordon Parks' action film about a black New York James Bond cost $500,000 and was one of three movies that made any profit for MGM last year: an astonishing $ 13 million gross in the U.S. alone...
More Realism. Prompted by the success of the original, most of the studios are going blackface with adventure films. Parks and company are now shooting Shaft's Big Score for MGM, which just released Cool Breeze, a black version of The Asphalt Jungle. Warner's, with Charleston Blue in the works, is planning a series of black "active adventure comedies." Universal and Fox will contribute their own versions of the black private-eye story. A bit more imaginative, Columbia has a black western, Buck and the Preacher, ready for spring distribution; it is directed by Sidney Poitier...
...high-pitched voice announce above the urgent sound of a telegraph key: "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North America and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press!" No one, save perhaps President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an avid listener and confidant, was safe from the Winchell shaft. He railed against "Hitlerooting" U.S. Senators, accused Defense Secretary James Forrestal of plotting a Wall Street dictatorship. Once, when a lengthy study of Winchell in The New Yorker reported that "41.2% of the columnist's items are completely inaccurate," he blasted back that the magazine's editor Harold...
...North Sea coast of England, best known throughout the British Isles as the scene of a 1951 colliery disaster in which 85 men died. For four generations, Easington miners have been bequeathing their picks to their sons. The town was founded in 1911, when the first shaft of the Easington Colliery was sunk into the rich coal seams that lace County Durham. The tunneling now extends for miles in all directions. To reach the end of the most distant coal face, which extends 51 miles offshore beneath the North Sea, the miners must ride and walk-and sometimes crawl -through...
They wreck hydrants by hacksawing the control stem or stuffing the shaft with beer cans. They fling bricks at passing fire trucks and often hit the fire men. "Burn, baby, burn!" they chant as their neighbors' homes incinerate, and often as not investigation shows that the fires Smith fights were set by rejected lovers or crafty landlords or teen-age torch parties...