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  • Voice Choices

    December 21, 2011

    STEEP THOUGHTS

    Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop

  • Theater

    October 19, 2011

    The Mountaintop: No Dream Here

    Angela Bassett, Samuel L. Jackson, and MLK's last night

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Samuel L. Jackson As Martin Luther King, Jr: My Review

    A situation comedy about Martin Luther King Jr. and a motel maid in Memphis in 1968? Involving cigarette-smoking shtick, a pillow fight, and a pleading phone call to a higher-up? Yes, Katori Hall's award-winning play The Mountaintop is all of that.

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Fashion Week: Paola Hernandez Hosts a Pool Party; Tracy Reese Knocks It Out of the Park

    Araceli CruzModels allowed to party while working​Mexican designer Paola Hernandez is a genius! We love her for taking us out of the Lincoln Center tents, to high above Chelsea at Hotel Americano's rooftop terrace. Was she trying to bribe us with cocktails and lounge chairs? Who cares! That's ... More >>

  • Theater

    September 7, 2011

    Fall Arts: Theater Picks

    Araceli CruzModels allowed to party while working​Mexican designer Paola Hernandez is a genius! We love her for taking us out of the Lincoln Center tents, to high above Chelsea at Hotel Americano's rooftop terrace. Was she trying to bribe us with cocktails and lounge chairs? Who cares! That's ... More >>

  • Film

    May 4, 2011

    Culture Clash and Corny Antics in Tyler Perry Knockoff Jumping the Broom

    Araceli CruzModels allowed to party while working​Mexican designer Paola Hernandez is a genius! We love her for taking us out of the Lincoln Center tents, to high above Chelsea at Hotel Americano's rooftop terrace. Was she trying to bribe us with cocktails and lounge chairs? Who cares! That's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Tyler Perry Assembles The World's Greatest Blactresses

    ​So Tyler Perry--you know, the Madea guy--is writing and directing a film called For Colored Girls, based on the brilliant series of monologues called For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. (The play surfaced in '75, when you had to have long, interesting title ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    The Queen 2: This Time It's Personal

    How long before we get a sequel to the Oscar winning The Queen, with Helen Mirren recoiling as American First Lady Michelle Obama (played by Angela Bassett), dares to touch her royal-assed self? The film will examine the conflicting emotions inherent in a situation involving the first time the Queen ... More >>

  • Film

    January 14, 2009

    Biggie's Small, in Notorious

    Notorious B.I.G. made B.L.A.N.D.

  • Voice Choices

    November 26, 2008

    AROUND THE WORLD

    African Diaspora Festival highlights the global black experience

  • Film

    March 18, 2008

    Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns

    African Diaspora Festival highlights the global black experience

  • Film

    April 18, 2006

    'Akeelah and the Bee'

    African Diaspora Festival highlights the global black experience

  • Columns

    April 18, 2006

    NY Mirror

    African Diaspora Festival highlights the global black experience

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Picture This

    On the Set, the Street, and at Dinner With 'X' Director Spike Lee

  • Film

    September 14, 2004

    Film

    On the Set, the Street, and at Dinner With 'X' Director Spike Lee

  • Film

    July 29, 2003

    It's All Over Now

    Legends of the Fall

  • Art

    February 18, 2003

    The Doc Is In

    PBS Tries to Stay King of the Real Reality TV

  • Columns

    December 31, 2002

    NY Mirror

    PBS Tries to Stay King of the Real Reality TV

  • Home

    December 31, 2002

    Everything Is Illuminated

    The Critics Speak

  • NYC Life

    September 24, 2002

    Runway Rundown

    The Critics Speak

  • Film

    June 18, 2002

    State of Confusion

    The Critics Speak

  • Art

    July 31, 2001

    Camera Obscura

    ••• Tracking Down Film Studies’ Fall Guy

  • Film

    October 31, 2000

    Couples Therapy

    ••• Tracking Down Film Studies’ Fall Guy

  • Film

    September 19, 2000

    Darkness Visible

    ••• Tracking Down Film Studies’ Fall Guy

  • News

    September 5, 2000

    Picture This

    Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

  • Film

    January 25, 2000

    Far and Away

    Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

  • Film

    November 2, 1999

    Meryl Takes On the System and Wes Takes a Nap

    Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

  • Film

    August 25, 1998

    Two on the Isle

    Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

  • Columns

    June 2, 1998

    NY Mirror

    Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

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