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...intelligent and unpretentious as its subject, the program touches variously on Tales, Maupin's Southern conservative background and his homosexuality. Most tantalizing are the segments that juxtapose book excerpts with interviews of Maupin's prototypes. Pam Delaney, for instance, doesn't feel she's really like heroine Mary Ann Singleton. "She showed up a lot more naive than I did," says Delaney, her open-faced smile a sweet self-refutation. Such moments whet the appetite for the six-hour adaptation of Tales coming to PBS this winter...
...Song" sparked what would become the Blaxploitation era of filmmaking. Since then, Black film has gone on to be characterized by mainstream stars such as Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and more recently by independent filmmakers such as Charles Burnett, Spike Lee, Ernest Dickerson, Julie Dash, John Singleton and Reginald Hudlin...
AFTER HIS SPECTACULAR DEBUT LAST YEAR WITH boyz n the Hood, director JOHN SINGLETON was asked what sort of film he would make next. "A masterpiece," said the young tyro. Not according to insiders who have seen a rough cut of Singleton's latest, Poetic Justice, starring Janet Jackson and rapper Tupac Shakur. The audience turned thumbs down when Columbia Pictures held a test screening last month. Singleton lately has been reshooting some scenes...
Unexpectedly fast times seem to be the story for the rest of the Crimson as well. Both seniors Kris Singleton and Dave Knauert recorded their fastest unshaved times. Singleton placed third in the 100 and 200 fly, swimming in 52.49 and 1:57.17, while Tri-Captain Knauert won the 100 backstroke...
...Spike Lee. "Spike was on the set," recalls an observer who was close to the shooting, "and a guy comes up and tells him, 'I know you! I saw your film -- Boyz N the Hood.' " Lee was miffed, but the crew members laughed seditiously. They surely knew that John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood earned about as much money as Jungle Fever and Do the Right Thing did together. Lee doesn't care to be overtaken by the young black directors whose careers his success helped make possible...