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FILMThe 21st century is the age of information, and motion pictures and the arts represent the very height of that age. Through motion pictures we see ourselves. They speak of our hopes and dreams and aspirations, of our tears and failures. They allow us to probe unanswered questions, dicuss present issues and discover different views. And sometimes, through the creation of images that afterward emanate throughout our psyches, they can shape and define who we are and hope to become. Images are the most powerful messages that define our future and better our present. So who are we and what do we want to become?
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DIRECTOR REGGIE HUDLIN
REGGIE HUDLIN'S HOUSE PARTY By Janis Lowe Q: When did you become interested in film making? A: My brother is a film maker. When I was a kid, he would take me to a lot of foreign films as well as American independent and art films. So I started thinking about...
BLACK HISTORY MAGAZINE HALLE BERRY INTERVIEW
Life as an Up and Coming Superstar In 1993 "It's time for...Black women to start taking a stand. And if we stop taking those kinds of roles they keep offering us, if nobody will do it, they won't be able to just offer them to us...." Halle Berry, Quest: Very...
Black Film White Money
Jesse Algeron Rhines In the 1970s, the major studios had yet to recover completely from the debilitating effects of the Paramount Consent Decree, the advent of competition from the recently invented television technology, and the doubling of film production costs...
Director John Singleton
An Interview with one of the most important new voices in film Bill Singleton. Okay. Just for my readers and listeners, I just wanted to ask you a couple of questions. Could you give our readers and listeners a sense of your personal history, like where you grew up...
ARSENIO HALL: HOST AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
A Biography At age 12, growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, Arsenio Hall told his mother he wanted "to do what Johnny Carson does." At age 30, Hall is doing just that, as the host and executive producer of "The Arsenio Hall Show," the hour-long, late-night talk show from...
ARSENIO HALL INTERVIEW
The Interview by Bill Singleton Q: When did you decide to be a comedian? AH: When I was a senior in high school, a comedian named Franklin Ajaye came to my school to promote the film "Car Wash." After seeing him, I said to myself, that's the first thing I'm going to...