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Although Lee's class is titled "Contemporary African American Cinema," the Film Archive has named its series "Black Cinema after Sweetback." The intimation is clear: modern Black film began in 1971 with Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song...
Sweetback performs for a white audience, and they love it--until he challenges their authority. The story's the same for Van Peebles. Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song was a success, but the director's later work has been ignored. Hollywood exppropriated his style but not his message, when it created the blaxploitation genre. It took a new wave of independent filmmakers to bring the real Sweetback back to cinema...
...people suppose it was all written by Cole Porter, with maybe a little help from George Gershwin. It has to start ringing bells with today's geniuses as well -- and here the spotlight narrows sharply to one put-upon hero, the great Cy Coleman, who, with hits like Sweet Charity and Barnum, already has the honor of the American musical riding on his other shoulder. His classic songs, such as Hey, Look Me Over, If My Friends Could See Me Now, Witchcraft and Big Spender, are near the top of the postwar musical charts...
...past debate over whether good manners even allow doggy bags in a restarurant, writes, "Over the past year my family and I have attended a few weddings, and we hope you can tell us what is the proper etiquette when there are plenty of leftovers from the sweet table at a reception. I say you should eat what you want and take home any leftovers . . ." Miss Manners replies, "What did you have in mind here? Tapping the bridal couple on the shoulders during their last dance and asking them if you could run off with their food?" How Important...
...great match," said senior number five player Farokh Pandole. "And a win at Yale would be a very sweet way to end things...