Month: April 2012

  • http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/03/30/3137372/possible-rebirth-of-uptowns-carolina.html
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    Coonskin < http://vanhorn.net/XsForEyes >0o< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9MmVTaf-s >
    X’s for eyes was fresh to seeing this film half way through our second home: 1912 ave, O. David
    Christmas gifted Lee this movie that was baught at the “sweetest job” =
    Studio: Xenon
    Rating: R Contains:[Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language]
    Summary: Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic helmer Ralph Bakshi subsequently directed a controversial,
    animated feature Coonskin (aka Streetfight, 1975). Bakshi opens and closes the film with a live-action
    tale that stars Scatman Crothers, Miami Vice’s Philip Michael Thomas, Charles Gordone, Barry White;
    it recounts the adventures of three African-American men who escape from prison are later gathered
    up. In between, an animated tale has animal characters: stereotypically black traits.

    Brother Rabbit
    (voiced by Tubbs), Brother Fox (voiced by Gordone), and Brother Bear (voiced by White) – entering a
    white-dominated ghetto environment and diverging into different paths; 1 becomes a crime overlord,
    the second sells the first out to La Cosa Nostra, and the third establishes himself as a media-exploited
    sports icon. Completely misread as: racist work upon release, a film actually entails Bakshi’s satirical
    excoriation of bigotry via the tongue-in-cheek use of black urban stereotypes. The director laces film
    with profane ghetto dialogue and street slang; though animated, this isn’t a picture for children.

    Variety wrote of the work, “Beyond Bakshi’s cinem style, his stories seem haunted by a worldliness tha’s
    torn between cynicism and tortured humanism. There is heart in his plots, superficial putdown’s absent.

    What is present [is] the evidently sincere empathy of a social surgeon.”
    The legendary Albert S. Ruddy (The Godfather, Cloud Nine) produced. ~ Nathan Southern,

  • http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/alpha_lyrics/EDIE_BRICKELL_&_THE_NEW_BOHEMIANS.html

    the digital divide