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It also raises questions about if Obama's election would change things...<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/weekinreview/19barnes.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=race%20hollywood&st=cse&oref=slogin" REL="nofollow">Race and Hollywood</A>Shady_Gradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00996625985002373392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-44340716463871225562008-10-19T10:45:00.000-07:002008-10-19T10:45:00.000-07:00Steve, I know what you are saying, the president i...Steve, I know what you are saying, the president is not a personal figure in our lives... however he is a damn sight more than a plumber we have called in to fix our problems. I still upon occasion happen on an old couple with a picture of J.F.K. hanging on the wall. His assassination broke our hearts. With the situation on wall st. If Obama takes the presidency hes going to have some real power to reform (if he chooses). It takes a level of trust to allow a young man to date your daughter. It takes a level of faith to say "help us, lead us" in a time of crisis. We live in a different, more jaded age compared to the sixties. If Obama wins five seconds later he will be the scapegoat for well everything going wrong with our country, but maybe just maybe ill be an old timer with a picture of Obama hanging on my wall. P.S. Originally loved Mccain disappointed with him and his choice of running mate so now obamas my choice.<BR/><BR/>LangdonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-43347223634793337612008-10-18T12:56:00.000-07:002008-10-18T12:56:00.000-07:00The Tuskegee Airmen got a good made for TV movie. ...The Tuskegee Airmen got a good made for TV movie. I think they'd have fine for the big screen as well.<BR/><BR/>I haven't seen the Lethal Weapon movies, or Mo' Better Blues; maybe I should.Lynn Gazis-Saxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16775215056055972392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-48886703513444338722008-10-18T11:27:00.000-07:002008-10-18T11:27:00.000-07:00You know, thinking about it, I'm surprised that th...You know, thinking about it, I'm surprised that there aren't more decent war flicks about Black units. I prepared a syllabus based on Black military experiences in the US, and there are some amazing stories there. Even if you start with the Civil War, you've got a plethora of brilliant, filmable, epic stories. Just the high points - the Harlem Hellfighters in WWI, Tuskegee Airmen in WWII, the 761st Tank Battalion in WWII - Kareen Abdul Jabar co-wrote a book about them - the 555th in Korea. The epic fight for black officers dating back to the Spanish American War, the 9th and 10th Cavalry (those would be the Buffalo Soldiers), the Houston riots and mutiny in 1917 - these are all fantastic stories, and no one has filmed them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276438221642890950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-37749019331358601122008-10-18T10:04:00.000-07:002008-10-18T10:04:00.000-07:00Yeah, I was thinking of the Lethal Weapon movies, ...Yeah, I was thinking of the Lethal Weapon movies, too. And Inside Man had the main character in a serious, long-term romantic relationship. In both cases, though, as Steve said, the romance wasn't the main thrust of the story at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-59703109674503942862008-10-18T08:42:00.000-07:002008-10-18T08:42:00.000-07:00I believe I'll accept Denzel in "Mo Better Blues"....I believe I'll accept Denzel in "Mo Better Blues". Been a long time, hasn't it? I certainly enjoy seeing Danny Glover and his wife, but we're still, and in fact I DO see some good black relationships out there. Few are sexual, and fewer have the complete arc: "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl" (or the reverse, if from a woman's POV). That arc teaches how to find, woo, and hold a partner. If you can break that thread, the species and/or culture dies.Steven Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13630529492355131777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-55302394584016545902008-10-18T08:03:00.000-07:002008-10-18T08:03:00.000-07:00Lynn --How about Danny Glover and Darlene Love, in...Lynn --<BR/><BR/>How about Danny Glover and Darlene Love, in the Lethal Weapon movies? Not a lot of action in the bedroom, but they seemed a happy married couple when they weren't being threatened by villains.Steve Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079658447270792228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-12348692243098837282008-10-18T07:17:00.000-07:002008-10-18T07:17:00.000-07:00From FiveThirtyEight.com: Over in Indiana, PA and ...From FiveThirtyEight.com: <BR/><BR/><I><BR/>Over in Indiana, PA and Northern Cambria, PA, volunteers fielded complaints of a massive wave of ugly robocalls both paid for by John McCain's campaign and those paid for by third parties. The third party call was interactive, and purported to be from Barack Obama himself. The call starts out reasonably, and then "Obama" asks what the listener thinks is the most important issue. Whatever the response, "Obama" then launches into a profane and crazed tirade using "n***er" and other shock language.</I><BR/><BR/>Faking calls from a real political candidate is not just a bad idea, it's against the law.<BR/><BR/>But on a positive note:<BR/><BR/><BR/><I>Strongly directed from the candidate himself, Obama's campaign organizers are taking nothing for granted, and the relentless organizing beat goes on. To accommodate the more spread out nature of the turf in west-central PA, over in the more rural upper half of Cambria County, Obama's aggressive campaign has organized its volunteers to improvise with phonebank and canvass staging locations out of apartments and offices after-hours.<BR/><BR/>"Our first night about a month ago," said volunteer Jim Sabella, "about four of us huddled around a one-bulb lamp to make calls." The apartment the volunteers used for the phonebank hadn't even had the electricity turned back on yet, and so they had to improvise. "We patched it through from the neighbors with an extension cord and just decided, we will do whatever it takes. Enough is enough, and we can't take another four years like the last eight." Now well-lit, the phone bank hosts several volunteers nearly every night of the week.</I>Josh Jasperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08441897278413737658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-23020672800574888552008-10-18T06:04:00.000-07:002008-10-18T06:04:00.000-07:00I saw the food stamp thing. This was the same typ...I saw the food stamp thing. This was the same type of conservative Californian that had the "Waterboard Obama" web page.<BR/><BR/>There's <A>The guy who put an Obama sticker on a monkey while in like at a McCain rally</A><BR/><BR/>If you've got a few minutes and can listen as well as watch, here's <A HREF="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/238074.php" REL="nofollow">some video of the entire crowd that the man with the monkey doll was in</A><BR/><BR/>The racism from the (100% white, as far as I can tel) crowd is overwhelming. "Go back to Kenya", "Where's Obama? He's in Africa".<BR/><BR/>They're shouting at some Obama supporters across the road, but still, seeing an Obama supporter is not reason for anyone to act racist.Josh Jasperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08441897278413737658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-46522109601758115972008-10-17T22:32:00.000-07:002008-10-17T22:32:00.000-07:00Haven't seen "Miracle at St. Anna" yet so I cannot...Haven't seen "Miracle at St. Anna" yet so I cannot comment on your assessment of it now. I do agree with most of your comments about Spike's body of work. However there is one film of his where a black couple end up happily married with child and ends on a more positive note than where it began. That is "Mo' Better Blues". Though the path that Denzel's character, Bleek, embarked upon throughout the film was tumultuous and he had a rather serious wake-up call, he DID wake up. He got himself together and got back with one of the two women he had been dealing with throughout the film. And she was actually the darker woman which I thought was positive and significant to see on the screen. Granted he was seeing two women at the same time in the main body of the film and I'm sure that's not a path you would want your son to explore, Bleek was very HONEST about his relationships with both of the women he was dealing with. Which showed a certain level of maturity most men who like to deal with multiple women don't have. And I found the love scenes to be done rather well and healthy and positive. Yes, he messes up but he recovers and it ends positively. Hero's Journey stuff.Ashe Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13080539043480727059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-49569670687035648052008-10-17T20:52:00.000-07:002008-10-17T20:52:00.000-07:00And, you're right, no Spike Lee movies that I've s...And, you're right, no Spike Lee movies that I've seen count. Malcolm X dies, some men in Get On the Bus say they have happy relationships, but you don't get to see that on screen, the parents in Crooklyn are not in a marriage I'd want, and pretty much all the relationships in Do The Right Thing are dysfunctional. And those are all the Spike Lee movies I've seen.Lynn Gazis-Saxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16775215056055972392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-85192632495338852992008-10-17T20:49:00.000-07:002008-10-17T20:49:00.000-07:00Actually, off the top of my head, the only movie I...Actually, off the top of my head, the only movie I can think of that had a black man and a black woman in a relationship that I'd like my nephews and nieces (don't have any kids) to have, and who had a happy ending, was Independence Day. (Not counting characters who said they were happily married, but you never got to see them together on screen.)Lynn Gazis-Saxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16775215056055972392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-26786573793312542052008-10-17T17:27:00.000-07:002008-10-17T17:27:00.000-07:00Malcolm X's relationship with his wife was fine. ...Malcolm X's relationship with his wife was fine. I wouldn't want my own son to emulate that life path--Malcolm got assassinated. So if someone is unconsciously asking the question: "where are the goodies? Can I go this path and get them..? Survival, check. Sex...ouch! I'm dead!" Trying to chart a path from survival to sex to power to love (the foundations of further growth) is difficult WITH role models. But where is the path for a young man who wants to be powerful and sexual...and survive? Because I promise you, if there is no path to this within honest culture, young males will chose the outlaw path. This stuff is unconscious, and insidious. And far, far bigger than Hollywood.Steven Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13630529492355131777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-25038348324862449222008-10-17T16:26:00.000-07:002008-10-17T16:26:00.000-07:00Nice review on "Miracle at St. Anna".This really h...Nice review on "Miracle at St. Anna".<BR/>This really hit home for me about Spike in this film especially:<BR/><BR/><I>"He SEETHS with pain and resentment."</I> <BR/><BR/>I'm not sure where Spike was trying to go with the interaction between the widow(?) and the soldiers but it felt like he couldn't get out what to say.<BR/><BR/>It didn't quite work for me as a war movie though I liked Derek Luke in his role. Michael Ealy.. not so much.Shady_Gradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00996625985002373392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-49801936240999984632008-10-17T13:24:00.000-07:002008-10-17T13:24:00.000-07:00-- "My point is that without the support of an ent...-- "<I>My point is that without the support of an entire culture...</I>" -- <BR/><BR/>Ah, I get it, and I agree completely. I sometimes wonder how many potential "Mozarts" are right now sitting in front of a TV in The Projects or in a trailer park.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-16683895248805303912008-10-17T13:04:00.000-07:002008-10-17T13:04:00.000-07:00I'd call the relationship between Malcolm X and hi...I'd call the relationship between Malcolm X and his wife in the Malcolm X film positive, as far as it goes (even if the Nation of Islam comes off sexist), though somehow the more dysfunctional early relationship with the white woman felt more vivid.Lynn Gazis-Saxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16775215056055972392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-5844941055036318412008-10-17T12:35:00.000-07:002008-10-17T12:35:00.000-07:00Regarding the lack of sex in Spike Lee's current m...Regarding the lack of sex in Spike Lee's current movies, perhaps we have a case of a black director trained by Hollywood's disinterest in displaying that aspect of black lives. His first three films had plenty of sex in them, both healthy and unhealthy. And then, it goes away or turns dark, a la Girl 6. Perhaps he's learned the lesson that showing black sex shuts down getting a movie done. Given his usual choice of difficult subject matter, he had to choose between dealing with the ideas he's interested in or making smaller movies that might not get distributed at all.Vince Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07520259515402839234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-77424891106346096242008-10-17T12:02:00.000-07:002008-10-17T12:02:00.000-07:00Michelle, I thought watermelon was a good, wholeso...Michelle, I thought watermelon was a good, wholesome fresh fruit. I am astounded that you cannot buy it with food stamps. I understand fried chicken, as a prepared food which is more costly for the actual value. Do you know the rationale?Pagan Topologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01611788563582362688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-67338604467952429772008-10-17T11:57:00.000-07:002008-10-17T11:57:00.000-07:00Another important thing about Mozart to keep in mi...Another important thing about Mozart to keep in mind is that his father was also a successful musician, as well as a _successful teacher_ of music who saw that his son had talent devoted a lot of time and effort towards making that talent bloom as much as possible. It's not just that he was born at the right place and right time, but also that he had a family dedicated towards helping him grow his natural talents. The dude had pretty much every single advantage you could want in creating a successful artist, and he still ended up dead in a common grave by 35.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-35526800513547248862008-10-17T11:07:00.000-07:002008-10-17T11:07:00.000-07:00I love Mozart as well. And agree that it was prob...I love Mozart as well. And agree that it was probably better for humanity that he was born when he was. My point is that without the support of an entire culture, as well as technology sufficient for full expression of skills and a means of reproducing and preserving the efforts of a lifetime, even a potential as transcendent as Mozart's would have gone unnoticed by the world. Just an expression of my obsession with the importance of culture and society in nurturing talents and abilities. In NO way a slam at Mozart--who, in my mind, is up there on the highest levels of human achievement.Steven Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13630529492355131777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-90011078756562317762008-10-17T10:59:00.000-07:002008-10-17T10:59:00.000-07:00As to Miracle: I'll rent it when it comes out (not...As to Miracle: I'll rent it when it comes out (not out of a lack of desire to see it, but with two small kids, it takes a lot for me to get to the movies.) I loved the book, so I'm a bit squeamish about seeing Spike Lee's treatment of the novel.<BR/><BR/>Minor correction: The unit involved was the 92nd Infantry Division, not a brigade (huge difference). <BR/><BR/>Interesting comments about Lee and his depictions of relationships, particularly considering his negative statements in the past regarding interracial couples.Reluctant Lawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840736619081764445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339191.post-14773600882763619952008-10-17T10:42:00.000-07:002008-10-17T10:42:00.000-07:00-- "If Mozart had been born in the Kalahari, he'd ...-- "<I>If Mozart had been born in the Kalahari, he'd have been known as the best drummer in his entire family.</I>" -- <BR/><BR/>As a passionate Mozart fan I find that statement intriguing and a bit puzzling. <BR/><BR/>I also read a comment somewhere that, "If Mozart had been born in the 20th century he would have been a rock star." That's probably true so I'm glad he was born in the 18th century.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com