Day: April 1, 2011

Midnight Cowboy

1969 United Artists/MGM Directed by John Schlesinger Produced by Jerome Hellman Screenplay by Waldo Salt Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy I’ve probably said this before so if the next couple of paragraphs sound familiar feel free to drop on down and read the rest of this review, okay?  You won’t hurt my […]

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Cotton Comes To Harlem

1970 United Artists Directed by Ossie Davis Produced by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. Written by Ossie Davis and Arnold Perl Based on the novel by Chester Himes A lot of people will ask me as what my influences were as a writer and while I have maybe half a dozen I can certainly point to, one […]

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