Correspondent Maurice DuBois talks with Warren about how she recreated the rock legend in her fiery performance. Warren also talks about how time off due to the pandemic reoriented her career, including her work with the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, a group dedicated to fighting systemic racism in the theater industry, which will be awarded a Special Tony Award for its efforts. You can stream the original Broadway cast album of "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical" by clicking on the embed below Free Spotify registration required to hear the tracks in full :.
That production was headed to New York when Broadway shut down in March Correspondent David Pogue looks at the history of the show that rewrote the rules during a pandemic. To watch a preview of "Diana: The Musical," premiering on Netflix October 1, click on the video player below:. If a picture is worth a thousand words, what was a movie worth? True liberation did not mean imitating the colonizer's mentality. It meant appreciating the power, beauty and interconnectivity of all people.
Sometimes called the "godfather of modern Black cinema," the multitalented Van Peebles wrote numerous books and plays, and recorded several albums — playing multiple instruments and delivering rap-style lyrics.
He later became a successful options trader on the stock market. But he was best known for "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," one of the most influential movies of its time. The low-budget, art-house film, which he wrote, produced, directed, starred in and scored, was the frenzied, hyper-sexual and violent tale of a Black street hustler on the run from police after killing white officers who were beating a Black revolutionary.
With its hard-living, tough-talking depiction of life in the ghetto, underscored by a message of empowerment as told from a Black perspective, it set the tone for a genre that turned out dozens of films over the next few years and prompted a debate over whether Black people were being recognized or exploited. The New York Times, for example, accused Van Peebles of merchandizing injustice and called the film "an outrage.
After his initial success, Van Peebles was bombarded with directing offers, but he chose to maintain his independence. In the s, Van Peebles turned to Wall Street and options trading. Born Melvin Peebles in Chicago on Aug. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in and joined the Air Force, serving as a navigator for three years. After military service, he moved to Mexico and worked as a portrait painter, followed by a move to San Francisco, where he started writing short stories and making short films.
Van Peebles soon went to Hollywood, but he was only offered a job as a studio elevator operator. Which channels and or people promoted that fake event and or those involved in it?
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