Word: soultown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worse: you get to play hookers and once in a while a nurse." He resolved to use part of his MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant to help finance The Brother from Another Planet, a $350,000 satire about a black extraterrestrial who lands in Harlem. A white man shooting in Soultown with a cast that was 80% black could easily fall prey to presumption and condescension. The pleasant surprise of The Brother is how gracefully Sayles earns smiles and sympathy for his hero (Joe Morton) and his lank, loping comedy. In a rattling subway car, a cardsharp announces his next trick...
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