Ernest Hardy

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Sun Sonnets

VARIOUS ARTISTSRhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance (Rhino) The highlight of Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance comes at the beginning of the fourth and final disc, when Alfre Woodard gives a pitch-perfect reading of Georgia Douglas Johnson‘s poem ”I Want To......
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God Made Them Phunky

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 nonconformist — therefore unlikeliest, perhaps most potent — sex symbol, lying sprawled on a bed, torso rippling and shirtless, his processed ’do falling just above his shoulders, polyester pimp pants hugging......
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God Made Them Phunky

Photo by Michael Lavine 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 nonconformist — therefore unlikeliest, perhaps most potent — sex symbol, lying sprawled on a bed, torso rippling and shirtless, his processed ’do falling just above his shoulders,......
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God Made Them Phunky

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 nonconformist — therefore unlikeliest, perhaps most potent — sex symbol, lying sprawled on a bed, torso rippling and shirtless, his processed ’do falling just above his shoulders, polyester pimp pants hugging......
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God Made Them Phunky

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 nonconformist — therefore unlikeliest, perhaps most potent — sex symbol, lying sprawled on a bed, torso rippling and shirtless, his processed ’do falling just above his shoulders, polyester pimp pants hugging......

I ,Too, Sing Hollywood (Part 2)

(continued): Smith: But on the level of studio producers and development execs, do you really think it matters if you’re pitching to a woman or a man? Prince-Bythewood: Oh, completely. For instance, Gale Ann Hurd. Look at the projects she’s been involved with and the strong women in those movies......

I, Too, Sing Hollywood

Photo by Jenafer Gillingham Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to assemble a roundtable of black female directors, especially one in which each participant had a feature film under her belt. Almost all extant full-length films directed by black women — not just in the United States, but......

Sons and Lovers

”Heard any good stories lately?“ The query is the modern-day equivalent of ”Once upon a time . . . ,“ priming us for the dreamscape of flashes back and forward, memories and city myths that Urbania nimbly pulls together in what is, at its core, the story of what happens......

Grande Dame

It’s not precise that the sight of Catherine Deneuve as a middle-aged alcoholic -- slightly slack jaw line, wrinkles etching her face, a thickened midsection -- is a shock. Deneuve has been one of the busiest actresses in the world for the past decade, with her aging candidly, fearlessly documented......
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Jock Rockin’

Photo by Julia Wollenhaupt There are some incredibly smart people making contemporary house music. Armand Van Helden isn’t one of them. It’s impossible to read an interview with him and not be blown away by the co-dependent relationship between his arrogance and low-watt intellect. What makes him fascinating as an......