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On the 21st of August 1932: #MelvinVanPeebles, American stage and screen #actor, director (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song; Sophisticated Gent), #composer, and novelist, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2021).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🪦

Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 masterpiece, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, is not just a really great movie about an urban hero, but it's also cinematically important. It's the landmark film that created the subgenre of film known as blaxploitation and gave birth to a rush of black cinema for the next several years.

Read the review from August 2018 at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-sY

#blog #review #70s #blaxploitation #melvinvanpeebles #action #drama

#OnThisDay in 2021, #MelvinVanPeebles, American stage and screen #actor, director (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song; Sophisticated Gent), #composer, and novelist, died at 89.
#RIP 🥀🕯️

#OnThisDay in 2021, #MelvinVanPeebles, American stage and screen #actor, director (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song; Sophisticated Gent), #composer, and novelist, died at 89. 🕯
#RIP

I became an immediate fan of Adam Strand's Behind The Slate film history podcast from the first episode, which launched by charting the checkered life and history of Charlie Chaplin.

Today Adam begins a profile of Melvin Van Peebles and, judging by this new episode — which traces African American entertainment from its fraught beginnings — he may have already outdone himself. Highly recommended! → https://podcastaddict.com/episode/https%3A%2F%2Fsphinx.acast.com%2Fp%2Fopen%2Fs%2F63a13be697b20600118fcecd%2Fe%2F63e1bff0b455cc0011d42487%2Fmedia.mp3&podcastId=4176784

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#FilmHistory #MelvinVanPeebles #podcast #BlackFriday

Living Single - TV Guide - February 1st 1996.

#LivingSingle #TelevisionShow #Celebrities #90stv #1990s #90sTelevision #90sstyle #BlackMastodon #blackfriday #blackjoy #retro #nostalgia #popculture #MarioVanPeebles #MelvinVanPeebles