4 posts tagged “tv”
Happy Birthday to Cree Summer Francks bka Cree Summer.
My boys know Cree Summer for her voicework in such gems as Elmyra from Pinky and The Brain , Numbah 5 from Code Name Kids Next Door and Cleo from Clifford the Big Red Dog. Us Older Folks all fell in love with her when she got her start in voicework as Penny from Inspector Gadget and finally got to see her pretty face as Freddie in the TV Sitcom A Different World.
Well, she never ceases to amaze me. I found this music video a few weeks ago and cannot get this song out of my head!!
Here is Cree Summer in her music video "Savior Self" produced for the Elevate Films Fest.
I LOVE IT!!
Enjoy!
From August 3 through 30, the Gene Siskel Film Center presents the 13th Annual Black Harvest International Festival of Film, Video and TV, its annual showcase of the black experience. More than 40 entertaining, powerful and provocative features, documentaries and shorts celebrating black cinema worldwide will be featured. This year there will be a new component to the festival - television.
Tickets to films are $9 ($5 for Film Center members), $7 ticket price for all students, $4 for student, faculty, and staff of the School of the Art Institute and of the Art Institute.
For more information, call 312.846.2600.
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State St.
Chicago, IL 60601
Ahem (brushing off soapbox before making my noble ascent)
I read a Great post by my neighbor Musicchick2 regarding the use of the word Nigger (or Nigga)… Bitches…and other Terms of EnFearment…(but particularly Nigger) in a comedic, fun kinda way
You know what I saw once? An episode of The 3 Stooges where they end up in BlackFace! Remember Shemp? (Sometime during the course of World War I, Moe and Shemp formed a blackface vaudeville act which disbanded for a brief period when Shemp was drafted into the army. In 1917 Shemp and Moe took their comedy act back to the boards and played on both the Loew's and RKO circuits, managing to work for the rival outfits through a ruse: They played a blackface routine for RKO and a whiteface one for Loew's. They continued with their stage appearances through 1922. Shemp jokingly recalled the blackest moment of his life as the time he was working blackface in a minstrel show and the manager skipped with the payroll and the cold cream. Reference here. )
Did you know that even Blacks had to dress in BlackFace to perform for White Audiences??
BTW: I still use the term Black instead of African Americans…I also use the word Conk when referring to perming my hair.
Used to be a time when Whites making fun of Blacks was…Funny.
And then… the tides turned.
Not sure when it happened…(I’m still a youngin) but I’m thinking late 60’s early 70’s due to the Great Comedic Forces of Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor
Which makes me think of one George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley)…who used the word Honky with a Great Amount of Frequency. And I even once remember Weezie Jefferson saying to George “Nigga Please!” ….on National Television y’all!!!
Some say that his "use of the word Honky added a familiar, less offensive tone to the word, which caused some acceptance of the term when used in the appropriate company." Interesting….you can even buy a T-Shirt with him saying the phrase “Shut Up Honky”…but not one of Weezie saying “Nigga Please!”
You know what’s “funny” now? Blacks making fun of Whites AND Everybody else including other Blacks. I always wonder…if a white person laughs at a Black person telling a joke about White culture/nuances…are they laughing because it’s funny…or out of nervousness...or even shameful (subconscious) obligation…after all, Whites spent a lot of years laughing at those Minstrel shows…and a joke is a joke…right? And one good turn deserves another….right?
You know what’s Not “funny” now? Whites making fun of Blacks. Unless it’s a Black Person in WhiteFace…..Yes there is always The Exception.
Video: Show us a clip of a TV show you miss.
Most of today’s kids only know Robert Wagner as Number 2 in the Austin Power’s Trilogy but I remember him as the dashing Self made Millionaire Jonathan Hart married to the Gorgeous Jennifer Hart (Stefanie Powers)
I was a huge Fan of not only Hart to Hart but also of Wagner and Powers. I’ll never forget Mom taking me to see both of them perform in Love Letters. I think that just melded into my subconscious how real romance and marriage would be but nothing I lived ever seemed to compare to the Harts.
My favorite episode is when Freeway’s dog food is mistakenly swapped for pate that has been laced with drugs and you watch him go through withdrawal.
