I wasn’t sure if these were just regular audience members or if they were props, because some of them had afros. There’s no set really, he’s in a chair on a stage with the audience around him and there’s a fence behind him, with people standing up watching. He starts out talking about how shy and uncharismatic he is, but gets more and more animated as it goes on. He’s reminiscing, telling stories about his life, sharing some opinions, going off on tangents, rambling. In this one man show Smith plays the Black Panther Party co-founder at some point later in life, when he’s in prison, and has been on drugs. MERCENARY FOR JUSTICE is an example of him getting a little loosey goosey with the accents. He always carries around a little stick of scenery in his pocket to chew on. He’s a character actor but he likes to show off. He’s an actor I’ve always liked, but I could understand if you didn’t. But also he was the bad guy in Seagal’s MERCENARY FOR JUSTICE. M-M-M-Malcolm.” He’s actually been in several Spike Lee movies, he was on Oz I guess, he was one of the stars of Steven Soderbergh’s improvised lobbyist drama K-Street on HBO. He’s gotta be best known for playing Smiley in DO THE RIGHT THING, so I’m sure people walk up to him on the street every day and say “M-M-M-Martin. ![]() NEWTON STORY, A SPIKE LEE JOINT is a filmed version of a one-man show that Roger Guenveur Smith did starting in 1996 at the New York theater where Hair started. PASSING STRANGE was one, that’s a Broadway musical. I gotta admit I haven’t gotten to most of these. But even rarer than that there’s the performance films. They’re less widely seen, of course, but really good, movies like FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE. And sprinkled in between are the documentaries, often made for cable. There’s the main ones you think about – DO THE RIGHT THING, MALCOLM X, all the way through his recent OLDBOY remake. When it comes to the Spike Lee Jointography there are three categories. ![]() Huey P.PANTHER reminded me of one of the few Spike Lee movies I hadn’t seen, the 2001 made-for-cable A HUEY P.Newton Story ( 页面存档备份,存于 互联网档案馆), directed by Spike Lee, as shown on PBS Online audiorecordings and video of Huey Newton ( 页面存档备份,存于 互联网档案馆) via UC Berkeley Black Panther site.Video interview on African American History Channel.^ "Man Guilty in Huey Newton Death" ( 页面存档备份,存于 互联网档案馆), Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Octoaccessed March 12, 2018.sfn error: no target: CITEREFPearson1994 ( help) Huey Newton Found Shot to Death on Oakland Street: Black Panthers Founder Killed in High Drug Area. Huey Newton talks to the movement about the Black Panther Party, cultural nationalism, SNCC, liberals and white revolutionaries (The Movement, 1968).The original vision of the Black Panther Party, Black Panther Party (1973).Essays from the Minister of Defense, Black Panther Party, 1968, Oakland (pamphlet).Newton Reader, 2002, ISBN 978-1583224663, edited by David Hilliard and Donald Weise (Seven Stories Press) Newton, Huey P., War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America, 1996, ISBN 978-0863162466 (Harlem River Press, 1996: the published version of Newton's PhD thesis). ![]() The Crash of Flight 90: Doomed by Self-Deception?, with Robert Trivers (Science Digest, 1982).Herman Blake, J., Revolutionary Suicide, 2009, ISBN 978-0143105329, 1973 republished in 1995 with introduction by Blake) Newton, Huey P., To Die For The People : The Writings Of Huey P.Huey Newton Speaks – oral history (Paredon Records, 1970).
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