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...Diner, across from the Ripley's Believe It Or Not emporium, stop to glance down at the pavement. There you will see three consecutive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte and Oscar Micheaux. You recognize two of the names. The tan tantalizer Dandridge was the first black to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar ("Carmen Jones," 1955); Belafonte was and is the cool, sexy actor-singer with a half-century's radiance. But Micheaux? Considering his instructively bizarre, virtually anonymous career, no one would have expected Micheaux to achieve this celebrity in cement...
...with the brazen declaration of summer—from the bikini wax horror stories and get-thin-for-summer diets to beach bargains and lifeguard love stories—comes what I think is the oddest parallel to my own skin-tone woes: the self-tan. There I was pooh-poohing the cosmetics industry for not caring enough about making or marketing the products I need to attain flawless, cover-girl appeal and the next thing I know, every model in every ad is rubbing her way to darker, warmer skin...
Charlie Kaufman is having trouble getting the waiter's attention. We're at one of those Los Angeles restaurants where good-looking tan people talk earnestly over expensive salads. Kaufman, not Hollywood handsome, not tan, half eating a burger, would like more iced tea, please. But the waiter just doesn't see him. It could be his paleness. It's more likely his ability to disappear, forged from years of trying to avoid getting beaten up in high school. Or it could be that here, as elsewhere in this town, nobody really gives a toss about screenwriters...
...Washington made her film debut in the Dudley Murphy short "Black and Tan" (1929), in which she plays Duke Ellington's girlfriend, a dancer who performs despite illness and collapses after her big number. In this ambitious, primitive two-reeler, she delicately embodies the wild soul inside the dying swan; few actresses looked more wanly gorgeous than she does in her death scene. Murphy (who cast Fredi's sister Isabelle as the Other Woman in his Bessie Smith short, St. Louis Blues") also chose Fredi to play a prostitute in the Paul Robeson "Emperor Jones," where makeup darkened her skin...
...looming and colossal evil known as Sin rips the hero from his neighborhood and shunts him to Spira, where tan, sea-faring people lash palm leaves to the bamboo ribs of beachside huts. Of course, he tries to get home, and instead gets involved with Spira’s own mission to defeat Sin, led by Yuna, a self-sacrificing young summoner and her heterogeneous gang of guardians...