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By The Way, Meet 30s/40s Film Actress Theresa Harris - Lynn Nottage's Inspiration For "Vera Stark"

By Tambay A. Obenson
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April 24, 2011 7:29 AM
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I was just reading THIS New York Times article on Lynn Nottage's inspiration for her new play By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, which stars Sanaa Lathan, and is currently running at New York’s Second Stage Theater.

By Tambay A. Obenson
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April 23, 2011 12:43 PM
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Deadline just reported that Elvis Mitchell has been fired as Movieline.com's Chief Film Critic, after just over 3 months on the job. Mitchell was hired as Movieline's Chief Film Critic on January 12th of this year.

By Tambay A. Obenson
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April 22, 2011 7:20 AM
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"(Making the film is) impossible. It's just not... I don't know (if it'll happen). I mean, I just sort of threw that one up to the universe and said, 'If it's meant to be, it'll be', but it seems impossible to put together, it really does. It just hasn't happened... There's five or six (other Gaye projects) in the works. I actually feel less pressure. There's so many stories out there trying to happen that it just seems like it might be impossible. Nobody's done it yet. We haven't done it, nobody else has either, so there seems to be a reason you haven't seen that story on the big screen yet. I don't know what it is, but we're gonna have to change tactics and do it on stage, or something like that. That would actually be a great idea! So we'll see, we'll see."

By Tambay A. Obenson
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April 22, 2011 4:34 AM
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Hmmm... the hullabaloo over the film adaptation of The Help, starring Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and others, since its trailer was released earlier this week, inspired the content of this post - specifically, it all got me thinking about films in cinema history that have dealt directly with the tenuously symbiotic, strained relationship between black maids and their white employers, which goes back centuries and crosses borders.

By Tambay A. Obenson
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April 21, 2011 12:57 PM
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Oh brother... read on...

By Tambay A. Obenson
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April 21, 2011 10:53 AM
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Earlier today, I alerted you all to an article on the Miami New Times website on filmmaker Barry Jenkins, highlighting portions of it within my entry (read it HERE if you haven't yet). The post and article made their way across the web, mostly via social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.

By Sergio
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April 21, 2011 1:56 AM
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I was just thinking the other day... whatever happened to Tracy Camilla Johns? Yeah, you're thinking to yourself, What did ever happen to her? The lead in She's Gotta Have It? The film that made Spike Lee...well...Spike. The film that started it all for good...and bad.

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