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1976. Silver Streak, Pryor and Gene Wilder's comedic take on The Defiant Ones. In the penultimate moment, Pryor's character, camouflaged as a lowly train porter, flips a gat on the uppity white villain, demanding to know, in a brilliant combination of anger and comic timing, "Who you callin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Why I'm Good with the N Word | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

Whether scrutinizing his eager arrival, his struggles with his waistline, or his arhythmic dancing with teenaged co-eds, FM relished covering our departing prez. Here, presented for your delectation, are some of FM’s favorite moments: November 8, 2001 An intrepid FM reporter attempted to go trick-or...

Author: By Jennifer P. Jordan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: O Larry, We Hardly Knew Ye | 2/22/2006 | See Source »

FEDERAL OFFICIALS DISSEMINATED TO "COOPERATIVE NEWS sources" a blind memorandum stating that the "result of King's famous espousal of nonviolence was vandalism, looting and riot." The lapse from nonviolent discipline in Memphis freed the FBI from the inhibitions that the public's respect for King's conduct if not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "I Have Seen The Promised Land" | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

One such performance illustrates the rather conservative politics of The Club. After a “most welcome and delicious” supper in 1911, the girls wrote a short play about the suffrage movement. In it, the protagonist, Mr. Frothingham—played by a member wearing a man?...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Old Girls’ Club | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

Ridley's version (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.) retains many of the characters, like shop owner Calvin, who is played by Omar Gooding rather than Ice Cube, a producer of the series. But the stories rely much more on the social-button-pushing aspects of the movie. In the second episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Movie Hit, Restyled | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

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