Posts Tagged ‘Black Actors’

  • Caught in Prosopamnesia
    Having a good memory is a pain This is not a review. This is a post about few movies I have seen long time ago and for some reasons could not forget. May be because I was premature ten years ago and the movies were complex for me to decipher, these movies had an unforgettable impact on me. Presently, I can only recollect the basic storyline and remember few isolated...
    by ~uh~™ at June 29th, 2009 at 11:06 am
  • Hollywood’s Black Pearls
    1901- Booker  T  Washington,  a black educator and author  is  invited  to  the  White  House by  Teddy  Roosevelt,  and race riots  break  out all over  the  US. 1955-  Rosa  Parks, a  black working  class woman,  refuses  to vacate  her  seat on  a segregated  bus,  triggering  off  the Civil Rights  movement. 1963- Martin Luther  King...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at January 21st, 2009 at 10:01 am
  • Sidney Poitier- Hollywood’s Obama
    Just a week back, as i was looking at the T.V. flashing images of Barack Obama, making his victory speech, i felt a kind of thrill in me, a sort of vicarious hapiness. I had heard many “well educated” Indians often make disparaging remarks about Kallus, and don’t go into Black dominated areas, and how Blacks were dangerous. In fact there were more...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at November 11th, 2008 at 08:11 am