Melvin Van Peebles
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1 day ago · Sweetback (probably named after Melvin Van Peebles’ 1971 film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song) was an English band comprised of members of the band Sade, but not including front woman Sade Adu. The group’s members Stuart Matthewman (guitar, saxophone), Paul Denman (bass) and Andrew Hale (keyboards) came together to form the new project ...
5 days ago · Two films, both released in 1971, are said to have invented the genre: Melvin Van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, about a poor Black man fleeing the white police, and featuring a soundtrack by Earth, Wind & Fire was one.
4 days ago · The film received predominantly positive reviews, many of whom consider it to be a return to form for Singleton and one of his best films. Singleton's next film was 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), the sequel to The Fast and the Furious (2001) and the second installment in the Fast and Furious series.
8 hours ago · Adam West was born William West Anderson on September 19, 1928, in Walla Walla, Washington. His father, Otto Anderson (1903–1984) was a farmer descending from Scania in southern Sweden; and his mother, Audrey Volenne (née Speer; 1906–1969) was an opera singer and concert pianist who left her Hollywood dreams to care for her family.
3 days ago · Tillie Quattrone, Author of FM 14.1 (2023) Article “‘You know how the game goes, Baby’: Exploring Intersections of Power in Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Reviewed by Stella Sosa Wallace; Lone Star (1996). Reviewed by Hannah Robinson; CFP 16.2: “The Body”
2 days ago · However, as conceited as he is, Frankie J has a good side. Even though he brushes off a request by his sensei (Jim Kelly in his first film role, who would go on to co-star alongside Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon and play a martial arts badass in several other Blaxploitation movies) to promote the community center where he takes karate lessons, he encourages his listeners to send in donations ...
1 day ago · IMDB ratings for old media are not really reliable in the way modern ones are. >implying. That said, the Scorpio episode I definitely remember being a localised pre-internet "meme", this being among kids seeing it in reruns years after its original airing, so I can believe that it would have been highly rated by a 90s audience if their opinions were plugged into the internet in the modern way.
