Email Author Ernest Hardy

2000 Stories by Ernest Hardy

• God Made Them Phunky

  published November 30, 2000

  The video for OutKast’s hit single, “B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad),” opens with Dre (a.k.a. Andre 3000), hip-hop’s most doggedly nonconfor... More >>

• God Made Them Phunky

  published November 30, 2000

  The video for OutKast’s hit single, “B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad),” opens with Dre (a.k.a. Andre 3000), hip-hop’s ... More >>

• God Made Them Phunky

  published November 30, 2000

  The video for OutKast’s hit single, “B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad),” opens with Dre (a.k.a. Andre 3000), hip-hop’s most doggedly nonconfor... More >>

• God Made Them Phunky

  published November 30, 2000

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• I ,Too, Sing Hollywood (Part 2)

  published October 26, 2000

  (continued): Smith: But on the level of studio producers and development execs, do you really think it matters... More >>

• I, Too, Sing Hollywood

  published October 26, 2000

  Photo by Jenafer GillinghamTen years ago, it would have been impossible to assemble a roundtable of black female directors, especially one in... More >>

• Sons and Lovers

  published September 21, 2000

  ”Heard any good stories lately?“ The query is the modern-day equivalent of ”Once upon a time . . . ,“ priming us for the dreamscape of fla... More >>

• Grande Dame

  published September 14, 2000

  It’s not precise that the sight of Catherine Deneuve as a middle-aged alcoholic -- slightly slack jaw line, wrinkles etching her face, ... More >>

• Jock Rockin’

  published August 10, 2000

  Photo by Julia Wollenhaupt There are some incredibly smart people making contemporary house music. Armand Van Helden isn’t one of them. It... More >>

• Body and Soul

  published August 10, 2000

  Photo by Steven lamJILL SCOTT Who Is Jill Scott? (Hidden Beach/Epic) There is a question that hip-hop, for all its touted... More >>

• Straight Camp

  published July 27, 2000

  Framed by a mass of thick and unruly red hair, Natasha Lyonne‘s face fires off contradictions. The eyes are sharp and challenging, the lip... More >>

• Laurie Collyer’s Nuyorican Dream

  published July 13, 2000

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• Saving It

  published July 6, 2000

  Photo by David Lachapelle There were two jaw-dropping, stunning-for-all-the-wrong-reasons R&B moments during the recently televised Arista... More >>

• Girls, Interrupted

  published April 27, 2000

  Photo by Sidney Baldwin Jeffrey Eugenides’ 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, is social satire stitched inside a coming-of-age tale. It... More >>

• Naked

  published April 13, 2000

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• Howl

  published March 23, 2000

  Forest Whitaker has a magnificent face: dark and full, with one eye sloping slightly downward. It’s etched softly but deeply with emotions tha... More >>

• Like It That Way

  published March 9, 2000

  ”I come from a family of civil rights activists,“ says singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon, speaking by phone from her home in Brooklyn, just a f... More >>

• Renaissance Man

  published March 2, 2000

  The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s has taken on the aura of a Boho Negro Garden of Eden, a vanquished utopia for politically... More >>

• Schizopolis

  published February 10, 2000

  Forget about Slamdance, No Dance, Jamdance and Park City’s numerous other spinoffs; there were already two de facto film festivals within thi... More >>