The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Black, more than anyone else, should have been the one to wind up The House with a Clock in Its Walls. Too bad he doesn't…
Lou Gossett
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Firewalker (1986)
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Leo Porter
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J.D.'s Revenge (1976)
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Preacher
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The River Niger (1976)
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Dr. Stanton
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The Laughing Policeman (1973)
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Det. Larrimore
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Travels with My Aunt (1973)
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Wordsworth
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SNL Stars Return in Specials “The Spoils Before Dying,” “7 Days in Hell”
A TV review of IFC's "The Spoils Before Dying" and HBO's "7 Days in Hell."
Watching the Oscars with My Mom
Odie Henderson launches our coverage of Oscar Memories from some of our most notable contributors.
It's high tide for black new wave
CANNES, France -- The French New Wave was a rebirth of French films in the early 1960s, and the German new wave represented the same process in Germany in the 1970s. Now black American filmmakers are developing a new stylistic and personal vision that reached critical mass at this year's Cannes Film Festival. In May of 1991, here in the incongruous setting of the French Riviera, far from the urban settings of most of their films, the black new wave came of age.
Interview with Billy Dee Williams
Billy Dee Williams has been called the black Clark Gable and, if pressed, he'll agree that the comparison has some merit. Now 38, Williams spent a long apprenticeship on Broadway, in television and as a supporting film actor before he made his breakthrough as Chicago Bear Gale Sayers in "Brian's Song " in 1971.
