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Ashong, who acted in Amistad, a Steven Spielberg film coming out in December, recited an excerpt from his thesis, a musical titled "Songs We Can't Sing...
...honors for Radu Teodorescu. This year MADONNA is endorsing Ray Kybartas' Fitness Is Religion. "Whether we're doing wind sprints uphill or sun salutes in my living room, the goal has been much more about peace of mind than having a perfect body," she says. And noted muscleman STEVEN SPIELBERG is singing the praises of Jake Steinfeld's Power Living by Jake, which is more about getting a life than about getting a trim waist. (Chapter titles include "Flex Your Imagination" and "Go for the Goal.") The director, or "Wiels," as Steinfeld calls him, gushes on the cover, "Jake...
...bodes well for other forthcoming black-themed, black-produced, modestly budgeted films, notably Eve's Bayou (produced by actor Samuel L. Jackson and due out Oct. 24). It also sets the table for two black-produced films with blockbuster potential: Amistad (produced by Debbie Allen and directed by Steven Spielberg) and Beloved (produced by Oprah Winfrey and directed by Jonathan Demme). And finally, it's a welcome little victory for cinematic wholesomeness. "Some of the black films today are not deep," says filmmaker George Tillman Jr., 28, who wrote and directed Soul Food, basing it on his own family experiences...
...result, black filmmakers say, Hollywood is often cool to film concepts that don't include pimps, drive-bys, sexual antics or, preferably, all three. Debbie Allen, producer of Amistad, a film about a real-life 19th century slave revolt, spent several years looking for backers before Spielberg signed on to direct it (the film will be out in December). Kasi Lemmons, writer-director of Eve's Bayou--which deals with family secrets, sisterly friendship and voodoo--had a similar experience. "We were turned down by everyone," says Lemmons. "They all said they loved the script, and then they...
...quarter of a century ago, his first film, 1973's Badlands, earned the then 29-year-old a prominent spot in the generation of young film-schooled directors that included Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Brian DePalma, who together created a new, nervy kind of movie-literate cinema but who then, as the 1970s wore on into the '80s and '90s, made some really rotten movies along with the good. Malick's reputation, meanwhile, remains crystalline, pure with the promise and power of his youthful work. Badlands, which was shot for somewhere between...