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That personal, emotional investment may be what audiences are responding to when they see it. Says producer Warrington Hudlin: "Look at The Preacher's Wife: two big stars, but the film did not capture the right flavor. They spent a lot of money but did not capture the nuances of the black community...
Babyface hopes black filmmakers keep branching out: "I say, 'Don't categorize us.'" But Reginald Hudlin, Warrington's brother and the director of Boomerang, says it will ultimately require black films with widespread appeal and mega-box office grosses to clear the way for a wider range of African-American moviemaking. "You really have to gross $100 million to change perceptions," says Hudlin. "Then you get into a situation where Hollywood has to leave you alone and let you do your thing." In other words, if enough moviegoers start talking back to the screen, maybe Hollywood will begin to listen...
...result is so chaotic -- garbage piling up, houses left uncleaned, meals uncooked -- that the whites plead for the blacks to come back. Thirty years later, racial satire has taken a bleaker turn. In Space Traders -- one of three episodes of Cosmic Slop, an HBO anthology series from Reginald and Warrington Hudlin (who wrote and directed the film House Party) -- aliens arrive on earth with a modest proposal for the U.S. government: We'll give you unlimited energy and enough gold to pay off the national debt; all you have to do is give us your blacks. This time the white...
...fatalism that pervades much of Irish literature. "It is with total sadness that we have to accept responsibility for the recent action," the statement from the Irish Republican Army said two days after one of its bombs killed two boys, ages 3 and 12, in the English town of Warrington in March. "The last thing we needed at this sensitive time was what has happened...
...Lawrence's "natural charm and presence" and hired him as host of Def Comedy Jam. Lawrence also landed scene-stealing minor roles in movies like Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. "To attain universal appeal, the conventional wisdom is that you should dilute, homogenize black comedy," says filmmaker Warrington Hudlin, who cast Lawrence in House Party and Boomerang. "His approach is just the opposite." In January Lawrence will release a comedy concert film...