In 1971, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" launched a new genre in film: blaxploitation, with director Melvin Van Peebles at its forefront. Over thirty years later, his son Mario Van Peebles is paying homage to his father and the trailblazing movie in a new biopic. Also, New York responds to the flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, city news roundup, the new Kissinger transcripts, and the difference between fame and infamy.
Disaster on Hispaniola
Guillermo Linares former City Council Member and Community Leader discusses the flood in the Dominican Republic
and Garry Pierre-Pierre editor and publisher of the Haitian Times gives the latest on the floods in Haiti and New Yorkers' response
and Garry Pierre-Pierre editor and publisher of the Haitian Times gives the latest on the floods in Haiti and New Yorkers' response
Suing City Hall
Glenn Thrush City Hall Reporter for Newsday on the lawsuit against the City Council and other local news
Kissinger and Tell
Elizabeth Becker Domestic Affairs correspondent for the New York Times When the War Was over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution (PublicAffairs, 1998) on newly released transcripts of Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon
I'm A Celebrity, Who Are You?
Maureen Orth staff writer at Vanity Fair and author, The Importance of Being Famous: Behind the Scenes of the Celebrity-Industrial Complex (Henry Holt, 2004)
The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree
Melvin Van Peebles actor, director, writer, producer and revolutionary on his work in film and his son's film Baadasssss
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Mario Van Peebles actor, director, writer, producer on his film about the making of his father's landmark film Baadasssss
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Mario Van Peebles actor, director, writer, producer on his film about the making of his father's landmark film Baadasssss
Baad! to the Bone
It's Friday of Memorial Day weekend, and if you haven't got any plans yet and don't mind profanity, a trip to the cinema to see Mario Van Peebles' "Baadasssss!" may be in order. It's a dramatization of the making of "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song", his father Melvin's 1971 landmark ...
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