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...dawned, the seminal "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss 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...
...Poitier and Belafonte are the subject of A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black Cast Posters by John Kisch and Edward Mapp. This book is a glossy compilation of hundreds of posters used in promoting independent race movies and Hollywood features with an important African-American presence. Spike Lee offers an inconsequential preface that is thoroughly put to shame by the excellent introduction by Donald Bogle...
Accompanying the high tide in retailing was a year-end spike in credit-card use. One possible result: weak January and February sales, taking some of the shine off December's tinsel as the bills from the binge drop through America's mail slots...
...modified plan has been approved by a committee which includes Betty Shabbaz, Malcolm X's widow, and filmmaker Spike...
...Spike Lee has chosen to ignore us completely.He's basically for himself. He's not in touch withthe community at all. Betty Shabbaz is kind ofignorant of the problems with this project. Whenshe was approached she was told only about thescholarships," he said...