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LOS ANGELES -- The three Mexican directors who shook up Hollywood last February with 16 Academy Award nominations have formed a moviemaking partnership with Universal Pictures worth a reported $100 million.
Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu will produce five movies, some of them in Spanish, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.
It seems one of the most powerful notions in Hollywood is that black people can't do anything for themselves. I'm sorry; I just have trouble understanding why nearly every movie about African Americans portrays us as having a weakness only white people can help us overcome. It's starting to be a bit annoying, not to mention redundant. I'm sure we have all seen the preview that sounds something like this:
Announcer: "In a world where people of color from the inner city act like blatant stereotypes, one woman understood how to touch them better than they understood how to touch themselves. When no one else cared, there was one white woman who was willing to give them a chance. Michelle Pfeiffer in . . . "Dangerous Minds."
Mutts, Mulattos, and Paper Bags
By: Hadji Williams
Before it went mainstream “dog” was a semi-common reference to Black men, mainly used as a term of endearment, a là DMX. It later became shorthand for unfaithful brothers. In the December 2006 issue of Essence magazine, super-producer Kanye West remixed it into a jab at fair-skinned sisters: “If it wasn’t for race-mixing there’d be no video girls. The Kan-man theorizes. “Me and most of our friends like mutts a lot. Yeah, in the hood they call ‘em ‘mutts’.”
Dogs… Mutts… Mulattos. First Bush hates us, and now depending on how dark you are, we might hate ‘us’, too. (Dear RIAA, please let this child win another Grammy—it might be the only thing that’ll keep West’s foot out of his mouth.)
Has this year blown by or what?! We’re already the three-quarter mark. Fall Season’s under way, too. I got rid of my cable. I’m hardly ever home these days… pulp-pushing and all… I’d figured I’d save the loot for more important endeavors... like beer! no really i gave up drinking.
But after checking out network tv, i think i could go for a couple shouts of a former client, namely Absolut.
Good Lord, is it just me or is the bulk of the country completely screwed out of any semblance of decent programming or what?!
No wonder 30 year olds are OD’ing on Madden. by the way. 7 million people are playing some damn game called war of the WarPath or Warmongers or whatever.
In my “Good Buy, Bad Sell” news… 2006’s highly underrated kid flick, AKEELAH AND THE BEE (LionsGate, $29) drops on DVD on Aug 29.
Now in case you missed it—as most of the country did—Akeelah is a bright young Black daughter (Keke Palmer) of single mom (former Oscar nom Angela Bassett) with an incredible capacity for spelling. She’s a really smart kid who (like most youngsters) is a little awkward, lacks some confidence and isn’t too sure what the point/purpose is of being smart. So sometimes she dumbs it down just to fit in. It takes a teacher, Laurence Fishburne, to show her the light embrace her brains and push her to do her best which leads, to well, you know... [Insert Big Uplifting Finale here!]
Think Rocky meets Search for Bobby Fisher. Akeelah was a hot little movie. Too bad we all slept on it—which is precisely what makes it a “Good Buy Bad Sell” is the marketing.
And you can sell us all in the same way, right. Yup... let the slow trickle of "oh yeah, watch this!" begin.
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Yankelovich study: African Americans show strong reconnection to heritage
(August 15, 2006) African American and Hispanic consumers are reconnecting with their roots more so now than at any other time in the past, according to the Yankelovich MONITOR Multicultural Marketing Study 2006 released today from marketing consultancy Yankelovich Inc. For Hispanics, this strong reconnection means growing the bi-cultural segment of the marketplace; for African Americans, it means creating a new Black renaissance.
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