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The Best Man 20th Anniversary: Let's Discuss How Hard Ginuwine, R.L., Tyrese and Case Were Singing on the Soundtrack
Stop what you’re doing—you are now living in a world where Malcolm D. Lee’s The Best Man is 20 years old. Yes, the same movie with an epic bro-code violation and an Electric Slide to make everything okay is two decades old. The Best Man, which premiered October 22, 1999, can almost legally drink. What…
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Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut, Nia Long and More Attend John Singleton's Private Funeral, Public Memorial Service to Be Held in Coming Weeks
On Monday, May 6, friends and family gathered in Los Angeles to pay their respects to iconic filmmaker John Singleton. Singleton was taken off of life support and died on April 29 after suffering a major stroke on April 17. He was 51 years old. Cast members of Singleton’s directorial debut, Boyz n the Hood,…
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Nia Long: 'I’ve Watched a Lot of Men Get Rich Off of the Films That I’ve Done'
Nia Long deserves her coin. “I’ve watched a lot of men get rich off of the films that I’ve done, and I was being paid peanuts,” actress Nia Long said. At an August event for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the iconic actress with a decadeslong career spoke out. Long’s message: Pay women fairly. The…
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The 'Black Don't Crack' All-Stars
I was watching Set It Off the other day because there’s never not a good time to watch Set It Off. Watching Vivica, Jada, Kimberly Elise (looking as homely as they could possibly make her) and Queen Latifah rob banks and be overly dramatic is one of my favorite pastimes. Queen Latifah as Cleo, though,…
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25 Years Later, the Power and Brilliance of Boyz n the Hood Still Resonate
“In any type of writing program, they say to write about what you know,” John Singleton told Walter Mosley during a conversation following a 25th-anniversary screening of his classic film debut, Boyz n the Hood, in New York in June. “When you’re a certain age, you only have a limited amount of life experience. I…
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Nia Long Said That J. Cole Isn’t Too Young For Her and I Got Hype!
To say that Nia Long is a national treasure is an understatement. Long has been a part of most of our lives since at least the mid-’90s, when she played Beulah “Lisa” Wilkes on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and when a visionary Ice Cube saw fit to cast her in cult classic Friday. Thank you, Ice…