Posted on 04/25/2019 10:30:09 AM PDT by EdnaMode
The 18th annual Tribeca Film Festival opened with Roger Ross Williams’ documentary “The Apollo” at the iconic uptown venue which performers and Harlem community members call “home.”
“You can feel the history, the echo of the entertainers,” Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro said in a speech before the film. “In this administration, during these disturbing times of promoting racism, tonight, we reject it. No you don’t, not here, not on this stage.”
In “The Apollo” documentary, an HBO production, Williams chronicles the venue’s 85-year-history, moving between historic and present-day footage to show how far the country has come in terms of celebrating diversity, while reminding viewers how far America still has to go. In the past, The Apollo was the only venue in New York City to allow black performers. That’s no longer the case, of course, but Williams’ film argues that times are still hard. Williams put this message in perspective through behind-the-scenes content following a stage adaptation of Ta Nehisi-Coates’ book “Between the World and Me,” written as a father-to-son letter about how to live as a black man in a climate of police brutality and discrimination.
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“What racism”
Their racism. Whitey is evil. Except us whiteys who think us whiteys are evil.
You gotta cut ‘em some slack. Extreme hate and division is all they’ve got.
The Cotton Club allowed black performers. It was established by a famous and wealthy black man in the 1920s.
Variety is spouting revisionist myopic horsesh1t.
Hollywood is getting more and more shrill.
At Trump’s rallies he has always promised to go after pedophiles, and we have been watching it happen.
Who does that threaten?
The asshole does this all the time. Good to know Trump is the cause of his high blood pressure..
Hey bobbee, has been/wanna be, crawl back to yer “ partner” and stfu.
Capone: “You’re nuthin’ but a lot of talk and a badge!”
Ness: Here endeth the lesson.”
I don’t even like his acting.
he must be a Biden supporter ,LOL
‘What racism?’
That would be the scenario Hollywood taught him how to create in his head...then, act like it’s factual.
None of them are in touch with reality!
There is a comedian called “The Machine” that said Will Smith tried to come on to him. He said they get so much ‘action’ from women that they are bored with it, so the only excitement they get is trying to get young boys.
Will Smith did not sue his a$$ into oblivion, so I wonder if there is something to it. The media not covering such a story makes me think they are helping cover it up and are complicit.
Why bring it up? No one was probably even discussing it until he said something about it.
So tired of these pompous pretenders.
Go his start as a car salesman on film. I remember, around 1964, seeing his ads at the theater and on TV.
It threatens those that protest the most.
My guess is that Sean is sitting on a back porch somewehere trying to remember who fried his brains with drugs.
was he drunk at the time?
Just another has been movie star trying to stay relevant.
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