Email Author Ernest Hardy

2001 Stories by Ernest Hardy

• Hunger Pains

  published November 29, 2001

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• What a Wonderful World

  published September 27, 2001

  It‘s been exhausting and infuriating listening to newscasters lament America’s “loss of innocence.” When the hell was America ... More >>

• Joy to the World

  published September 13, 2001

  Swedish writer-director Lukas Moodysson’s debut feature film, 1998‘s Fucking Amal (re-titled Show Me Love for its American release), center... More >>

• Supa Sista

  published September 13, 2001

  The voice -- strong, soft and feminine -- is composed of calibrated tones of mockery and disgust: ”You think you can rhyme over this nigga?Yo... More >>

• Freddie Gets Fingered

  published September 6, 2001

  Vaguely ethnic and generically masculine, Freddie Prinze Jr. is the reigning king of Hollywood teen flicks. He’s so synonymous with the genr... More >>

• Revolutionary Acts

  published July 26, 2001

  ”Most of the time, when I see a black character in a movie, I am just waiting for the moment that I will be ashamed of something that he wil... More >>

• Bring the Sunshine

  published July 26, 2001

  The sexiest posse in hip-hop right now is the house of Missy Elliott and Timbaland. Everything is slightly askew there: beats, humor, libido.... More >>

• Barbie Unbound

  published June 28, 2001

  During the opening moments of Fast Food Fast Women, the camera follows very blond, very thin Bella (Anna Thomson) as she... More >>

• Fuck, Die

  published June 7, 2001

  “We’ve got no excuses.” By the time that line is uttered by one of the anti-heroines in Baise-Moi, the controversial French film ... More >>

• Return to Life

  published June 7, 2001

  You might have to invest a minute or two in house icon Ultra Naté’s fourth CD, Stranger Than Fiction (Strictly Rhythm), before realizing ... More >>

• Apocalypse Now

  published May 17, 2001

  Following the premiere of Barbet Schroeder’s heartbreaking Our Lady of the Assassins at this year‘s San Francisco International Film Festiva... More >>

• Beauties and One Beast

  published April 12, 2001

  A few years ago, a commercial for Blockbuster videos spoofed foreign film by depicting it as bleak and indecipherable. Un-American. The ad... More >>

• Trembling Like When You Are in Love

  published April 5, 2001

  Agnes Varda enters a Venice Beach café sans entourage or publicist, profusely apologizing for being late. At 72 years old, the French director i... More >>

• Bourgeois Brotherhood

  published March 29, 2001

  The only interesting aspect of Malcolm Lee’s The Best Man, the template du jour for Negro-helmed films, was the character of Shelby, ... More >>

• Head Trips

  published March 8, 2001

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• Stronger Than Pride

  published February 22, 2001

  The biggest pop icons of the ’80s were loud, brash and calculatedly eccentric: Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson, Boy George, Cyndi Lauper... More >>

• Same Old, Same Old

  published February 1, 2001

  It‘s 1931. American Negroes are being lynched for sport, and Jim Crow is in full effect. God, or one of his high-ranking officials, decide... More >>

• Sun Sonnets

  published January 18, 2001

  VARIOUS ARTISTSRhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance (Rhino) The highlight of Rhapsodies in Black: Music... More >>