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Saturday Jul 4 | The Jersey Journal

Looking back at 'blaxploitation' films

Richard Roundtree starred in one of the films that sparked the blaxploitation movement -- the original 1971 film, "Shaft." It lasted too long to be a fad, and was probably too much fun to be a movement.

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Related Topix: Thriller, Crime Movies, Shaft, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Richard Roundtree, Black Entertainment, Fort Lee, NJ, In the Heat of the Night, Mystery Movies, Entertainment, Television

Fri Jul 03, 2009

SFGate

'I Am Not Sidney Poitier,' by Percival Everett

Percival Everett made news 20 years ago at the South Carolina State House, where he stopped in the middle of a speech - he had been invited by the Legislature - and refused to go on because of the presence of the Confederate flag.

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Related Topix: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Comedy Movies, The Defiant Ones, Thriller, In the Heat of the Night, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Los Angeles Times

At El Segundo High School, disquiet about the film sets

Principal James Garza strode onto El Segundo High's North Quad, tennis courts behind him, and pointed to the school's bell tower.

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Related Topix: Blackboard Jungle, Drama Movies, Glenn Ford, Los Angeles, CA, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Soap Opera, Comedy

Fri Jun 26, 2009

National Public Radio

Hilarious Strut Through Badlands Of Race And Class

Percival Everett has been publishing continuously since 1983. His work spans multiple genres, including novels, short stories, poetry and a children's book.

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Related Topix: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Comedy Movies, The Defiant Ones, Thriller, In the Heat of the Night, Mystery Movies, Crime Movies, Drama Movies

Wed Jun 24, 2009

NOLA.com

'In the Heat of the Night' still sizzles

In the never-ending quest for cinematic gems hidden in the weekly TV listings, here's what I'll be watching this week: Rod Steiger, left, and Sidney Poitier in 'In The Heat of the Night.' What : "In the Heat of the Night," director Norman Jewison's multiple-Oscar-winning 1967 drama, starring Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, In the Heat of the Night, Mystery Movies, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Rod Steiger, The Cincinnati Kid, Movies

Tue Jun 16, 2009

FreeNYC

The Defiant Ones at Brant Park

Date: Monday, July 27th Time: Films begin at Dusk Location: Bryant Park Cost: Free Bring your picnic baskets and pull up some lawn for an evening under the stars with the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival .

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, The Defiant Ones, Thriller

Sun Jun 14, 2009

The Morning Call

A Decade Of Big Roles

Before crash landing on ''Lost,'' Daniel Dae Kim was a constant presence in TV and movies.

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Related Topix: Lost, Action TV, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Thriller, Spider-Man 2, Action Movies, Science Fiction Movies, Daniel Dae Kim, Richard Gere, 24

Fri Jun 12, 2009

The New Zealand Herald

Behind the scenes

That film is a collaborative art is accepted, but it can also be a war of attrition where inflated egos collide at the interface of culture and commerce.

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Related Topix: Bonnie and Clyde, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Comedy Movies, Spencer Tracy

Tue Jun 02, 2009

Contra Costa Times

Here are 10 cool facts about 'Porgy and Bess"

Here are 10 things to know about "Porgy and Bess," the play, the movie and the opera.

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Related Topix: Music!, Porgy and Bess, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Arts, Opera, Black Entertainment, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Folly Beach, SC, Entertainment

Mon May 18, 2009

DFW Catholic

Television Programming: May 17 a " May 23, 2009

The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies on network and cable television the week of May 17.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Drama Movies, In the Heat of the Night, Mystery Movies, Rod Steiger, Greenwich Village (New York, NY), Wichita, KS

Fri May 08, 2009

Nashua Telegraph

Schools, teachers play such huge roles in our lives

When I was a teenager, one of my favorite movies to curl up and get teary with was "To Sir, With Love." Sidney Poitier plays an engineer who cannot get a job in his field, so he ends up teaching at a school in the East End of London, where many of his students are prejudiced against him.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, To Sir, with Love, Family, Kids, Teenagers, Home Listing, Home, Opinion

Mon Apr 13, 2009

NorthJersey.com

A Look Back - a Amen!a

Sidney Poitier on April 13, 1964, became the first black actor to win an Academy Award for a lead role, for his performance in "Lilies of the Field." Poitier played a handyman who gets persuaded by the strong-willed mother superior of a group of German nuns to build a chapel for them; in one memorable scene he teaches them to sing the spiritual ...

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Sun Apr 12, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Today in History - April 13 - AP

The Associated Press= Today is Monday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2009. There are 262 days left in the year.

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Religion, New York, Natural Disasters, Flood, George Bush

Mon Mar 23, 2009

The Oregonian

A Classic Film, a Jug of Wine, and Thou

Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman in "Paris Blues" When Cinema 21 turned to a beer-and-wine policy that effectively made it a 21-and-over theater, there were some grumblings that Portland's youngest cineastes would be affected.

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Related Topix: Hud, Western, Drama, Action, Sport, Short, Comedy Movies, Paul Newman, Indie

Wed Mar 18, 2009

MinnPost.com

'Raisin in the Sun': still relevant, still powerful

Bakesta King in Penumbra Theatre's production of "A Raisin in the Sun." I wanted to know two things when I walked into the "A Raisin in the Sun" production at the Guthrie Theater : Would the playa s message of insidious discrimination against blacks still be relevant 50 years after its debut in 1959? And, could this 2009 cast compete with the 1961 ...

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Related Topix: Drama, A Raisin in the Sun, Theater, Arts

Thu Mar 12, 2009

MinnPost.com

Penumbra, Guthrie mark 50th year of 'Raisin in the Sun'

Though I've seen the 1961 movie "A Raisin in the Sun" , I'm really looking forward to attending Penumbra Theatre's production opening this week at the Guthrie Theater.

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Related Topix: Drama, A Raisin in the Sun, Theater, Arts

Mon Mar 09, 2009

SFGate

'A Raisin in the Sun' as timely as ever

"I got me a dream," the frustrated protagonist of "A Raisin in the Sun" exclaims.

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Related Topix: Drama, A Raisin in the Sun, Lincoln Memorial, US National Parks, African-American, Theater, Arts

Thu Mar 05, 2009

American Chronicle

Book Review: The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier

Born and raised in a small and isolated place, Cat Island, The Bahamas. Only two or three years of formal schooling.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Blackboard Jungle, A Patch of Blue, Drama, To Sir, with Love, The Defiant Ones, Thriller, In the Heat of the Night, Mystery Movies, Opinion

Wed Mar 04, 2009

WFMU's Beware of the Blog

for love of abbey

Many musicians lead double lives with other creative pursuits. In most cases, their musical prowess greatly overshadows that secondary output.

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Related Topix: Miles Davis, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Will Oldham, John Sayles, Abbey Lincoln

Mon Mar 02, 2009

The Boston Globe

Meet the parents

Joanna Drayton brings her fiance home to meet her parents. The liberal Draytons are white ; the fiance is black ; the movie is Stanley Kramer's "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner " . Tackling the subject of ...

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Related Topix: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Comedy Movies, Drama, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Movies, Entertainment

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