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DVD Review: Spike Lee Films “Passing Strange”
Some stage plays and musicals are adapted into films. Others are simply filmed. That would seem to be the easier gig—but if you’ve suffered through one where the camera never moved, or never seemed
Read More »DVD Review: “Miracle at St. Anna”
Miracle at St. Anna opens with a crime: A black postal worker pulls out a German Lugar pistol and kills an Italian man waiting in line to buy stamps. Why did he do it?
Read More »Sugar Water: White Men Can’t Believe I’m Talking About Wesley Snipes Again
Last Thursday actor Wesley Snipes (U.S. Marshals, Undisputed) was sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty in February of three misdemeanor counts for willfully failing to file his tax returns from
Read More »Sugar Water: Super Cyborg Sunday
I’ll get to the cyborgs in a second, but before I do, I need to mention one last thing in regard to Wesley Snipes — in my three February posts you may have noticed
Read More »Sugar Water: White Men Can’t Write About Al Jarreau Yet
Last Sunday I said I would find time to write about Al Jarreau in the coming week, but a few days ago Jeff Giles told me to put my ode to the seven-time Grammy
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