Why We Laugh ft. Bill Crosby, Chris Rock, etc.
Directed by noted actor-producer-director Robert Townsend (“Hollywood Shuffle”), the documentary, which originally screened at Sundance in 2009 in the Premiere section, features interviews with prominent scholars, politicians, cultural critics, and a host of notable comics, including Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Steve Harvey, and Katt Williams. “Why We Laugh” tracks the evolution of black comedy from the character of Stepin Fetchit and minstrels in blackface to the politically tinged humor of Dick Gregory, and from the television success of Good Times and The Jeffersons to the big-screen accomplishments of stars such as Eddie Murphy and Whoopi Goldberg. The film also turns a perceptive eye on the controversial career decision of Dave Chappelle and the implications of corporate efforts to capitalize on the massive success of Russell Simmons’s Def Comedy Jam and Spike Lee’s The Original Kings of Comedy.
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Added: March 18, 2010, 7:40 pm
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a film by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry. Directed by Lee Daniels ..set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece Precious Jones, a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. The film has been award Academy nominated OSCARS.
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Added: March 7, 2010, 10:25 pm
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meet the artist SADE performing 2010
new music from SADE
Added: February 12, 2010, 12:50 am
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Jada Pinkett Smith: Something Inside of Me
"... she's not fooling around," said Letterman in this clip. The actress fronts a band named "Wicked Wisdom" who came to Allston, MA on the way to to OZZFEST. She can scream!
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Added: November 27, 2009, 10:40 pm
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Boston Black Music Artist Video Roll
what's rolling in this video are frontal projection sequences we co-produced for New England's first Urban Music Awards show (2006)
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Added: November 17, 2009, 10:12 pm
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video clip showing the first time Wayne Shorter appears with the Miles Davis quarter with Tony Williams on drums, Herbie Hancock on piano, and Ron Carter on bass playing "So What" on the Steve Allen show in 1964 when this was filmed.
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Hancock
Added: March 16, 2009, 11:50 pm
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finalized XMAS, 2007 at PC CAFE in Allston, MA and contributed by Rossi Marina, her "Fall in Boston" video short was her BNN field producer project submittal. We think she is an amazing classical guitarist. Her music is the soundtrack on this piece.
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Added: March 2, 2009, 6:30 pm
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