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...that he could earn a living at this, he headed off to the comedy-club circuit. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was impressed with Lawrence's "natural charm and presence" and hired him as host of Def Comedy Jam. Lawrence also landed scene-stealing minor roles in movies like Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. "To attain universal appeal, the conventional wisdom is that you should dilute, homogenize black comedy," says filmmaker Warrington Hudlin, who cast Lawrence in House Party and Boomerang. "His approach is just the opposite." In January Lawrence will release a comedy concert film...
...there. That's why we've not had our child in America." Withdrawing from America, Nair dedicates herself to the flamboyance of the periphery, to the wisdom of the in-between. Recently in Soweto, she criticized a group of black students for dressing "like they were out of a Spike Lee movie." Nair explains, "They were all looking so American. I was just bemoaning that and telling them that this is not where...
Since the arrival of DuBois Professor of the Humanities and Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s arrival two years ago, the department has been able to attract such national figures as filmmaker Spike Lee, visiting scholars Jamaica Kincaid and Anthony Davis...
Kong's first serve fell for an ace between two motionless Tigers. Her next serve was passed into the net. Two serves later, Princeton still couldn't quite solve her serve, and their spike attempts did not even make it over...
Coolidge Corner Cinema. 390 Harvard St., Brookline. 734-2500. On Thursday, Oct. 7. "La Vie de Boheme" at 5:30 and 7:25 p.m. Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation at 9:30 p.m. The festival will last until Oct. 24. "Bread and Salt" at 5:50 p.m. "Time Indefinite" at 7:40 p.m. "Twist...