I’d like to think that I’m a person who looks on the bright side of things, but it’s going to take every ounce of optimism I’ve got in me to be even a little hopeful of this summer’s offerings. I prefer to play free pokies online instead of watching movies. I checked my handy dandy summer movie gauge to figure out […]
All his life Rodney Saulsberry has been told, “You have a great voice!” Now, his distinctive voice is everywhere! He’s using it to narrate movie trailers, pitch products, bring life to cartoon characters and make his living in Hollywood. He may have entered your home with the familiar movie trailer, Starts Friday at Theater Near You. Rodney’s voice may have urged […]
Gabrielle Union delivered us from Eva and did a little “ride or die” with Bad Boys Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as well as gave up some of the bad girl tricks in Two Can Play That Game. Does she have any time for herself? According to Marilyn Beck’s “Celebrities” column in the LA Daily News, she’s fighting to keep her head above water. The starlett […]
Since money is the heart of Hollywood, profit is the blood. With this pumping in the veins of executives, the only thing that is important besides entertaining is making a profit. Besides, we know that Hollywood both Black and White cannot survive unless there is an accumulation of mass amounts of profit. But what is posed as an unwritten formula […]
Truly when one considers what Black Hollywood means now versus what it did in the eighties, seventies, sixties and even in the early half of the twentieth century, it really is a place that does exist. “When I think of Black Hollywood I say ‘Where’s that?’ I think of Lee, Singleton, Tucker, Denzel, Halle, and Sidney (Poitier) the first big […]
Hollywood to African-Americans seems to be an intangible world to many, and tangible to a select few. In the streaming hills of Los Angeles the all white sign belting out these letters seems to only call on those whose skin matches the color of the paint. Although advances have been made since the beginning of filmmaking, Blacks have a come […]
In the struggles of urban youths for survival and pleasure inside capitalism, capitalism has become both their greatest friend and greatest foe. –Robin D.G. Kelley, Yo Mama’s DysFUNKtional I got the rap patrol on the gat patrol, Foes that wanna make sure my casket’s closed, Rap critics that say he’s “Money Cash Hos.” I’m from the hood, stupid. What type of […]