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...Williams (1893-1969) was a large, boisterous actor-singer best known for playing Andy Brown in the early-50s TV series "Amos 'n' Andy." In early-talkies Hollywood he had worked as a sound technician for Christy Studios, helped write a series of black-cast shorts based on the stories of Octavius Roy Cohen and appeared in all four Herb Jeffries black Westerns of the late 30s. In 1940 he wrote and appeared in the cheapie black-cast horror movie "Son of Ingagi," He was then hired by Dallas exhibitor Al Sack to write and direct films, apparently with...
...enjoyed, Williams was still a white man's employee. To achieve true independence, blacks needed to raise the capital that would allow them to pursue their own visions. And in the 30-plus years of race cinema, there was only one black man with the drive and doggedness to write, produce, direct, finance and distribute his own films. That was Oscar Micheaux, the first black to direct a silent feature, and the first to direct a talkie feature. In so many ways, Micheaux was the D.W. Griffith of race cinema. And also its Edward D. Wood...
...akin to a marriage, its success depending on what each person brings to the mix, in the compatibility or lack thereof between author and subject. Not since Bob Woodward's misbegotten attempt to tell the story of John Belushi in Wired has a biographer been so ill suited to write the life of a creative artist as Daniels is to write about Lester Young. When it comes to illuminating the background, he can be fitfully incisive, but when it comes to telling the story of one of jazz's most protean geniuses (which is, after all, what a biographer...
...many of have attempted to find some explanation for his surprising electoral showing, an unprecedented “victory” that allowed him to participate in this weekend’s two-man runoff election with incumbent President Jacques Chirac. In the process, it is easy to write off this development as the result of impotent mainstream politicians, the fragmentation of the Left’s vote, or the political apathy of the “silent” majority, while conveniently sidestepping the true root cause of Le Pen’s “victory?...
Harvard always introduces exams with a generous week-and-a-half holiday they call reading period. During these ten days, students have the opportunity to write final papers, study for finals and catch-up on any material passed over during the semester. The design of reading period fits Harvard students to the T; not only does it gives diligent students ample time to pace their studying, but it also gives the procrastinators among us generous opportunity to further postpone their paper-writing and cramming...