“It is a rare visual depiction of middle-class black characters from an era when lynchings and stereotyped black images were commonplace. What’s more, the material features Bert Williams, the first black superstar on Broadway.”
Tag: 09.20.14
Screenwriters Flee Hollywood For The More Prestigious World Of TV Writing
“There’s not that big a variety in the types of movies that get made. People don’t take a chance on material as much as they used to. The kind of character-driven stories that we were making in the late ’90s and 2000s — all that stuff has moved to cable.”
Downtown Theatres Shouldn’t Just Be Placeholders Waiting For Rich Developers To Come Along
“It’s that same old sad story that’s playing out in cities across the United States as capital flows back into downtown: Money talks, and local culture takes a walk. But before we throw up our hands and cue the world’s tiniest violin, it’s worth noting that it doesn’t have to be this way.”
Polly Bergen, Broadway Singer Who Starred In The Original ‘Cape Fear’ And Then Became ‘Madame President,’ Has Died
Bergen was 84. According to critic Rex Reed, “Bergen was a legendary ‘A-list, New York Oscar party host’ — he remembers watching the Oscars one year on Bergen’s bed while sitting in between Paul Newman and Lucille Ball — but Bergen was even more passionate about women’s rights.”
Why It’s So Easy To Buy Stereotypes In Fiction
What gets published by or about South Asians in the U.S.? “Mangoes, spices, and monsoons … saris, bangles, oppressive husbands/fathers, arranged marriages, grains of rice, jasmine, virgins, and a tacky, overproduced Bollywood dance of rejection and obsession with Western culture.”
How Hollywood Moved From White Actors In Blackface To Black Cinema Today
“When African Americans were cast, they were also expected to wear black make-up. It was against this backdrop that a parallel black cinema industry arose.”