Wattstax: Black Life On Screen
Wattstax offers a vivid film mixing a Watts festival concert with in depth views of black life. It follows gospel circuits rap sessions and Pryor’s stand up while avoiding drug问题 themes, delivering a rewarding portrait of black American vitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wattstax
Fillmore
Los Angeles Coliseum
Rufus Thomas
Carla Thomas
Isaac Hayes
Watts Ghetto
Richard Pryor
Pryor
Mel Stuart
America
Gloria Swanson Returns to Hollywood Reflections on Glamour
Gloria Swanson, visiting Los Angeles, recalls Hollywood’s early days, laments smog and changes, and notes health obsessions. The 74-year-old star recounts meetings with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, and reflects on her moves between New York, Portugal, and Palm Springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Hollywood
Gloria Swanson
Miss Swanson
Europe
Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin
Brando
Countess
Hong Kong
London
Charlie
Mary Pickford
Pickfair
Douglas Fairbanks
New York
Portugal
Palm Springs
Norma Desmond
Sunset Boulevard
Wiggoletto controversy shakes San Francisco Opera production
Nine topless dancers were removed from the San Francisco Opera cast of Rigoletto fueling a dispute. A columnist proposed renaming the work Wiggoletto as the controversy threatened to eclipse the production. Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle decided to abandon the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
San Francisco Opera
Opera
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Richard Rodzinski
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Mary
Sadie Thompson
Doug
Sylvia Ashley
God
C.R
Michael Dooley
Foundation
JAZZ
Cedar Rapids
Son of the
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AVE. S.E
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Beokie Tan
Coffy
Pam Booker
Robert William Allan Grier
Bradshaw Doqui - Elliott Arbus
Vincent Price
Joseph Brenner
CEDIA
Twin West Pelee
Tid
G-Men
Deep River
Ivan Rassimov
Vre Veo
Edulsiniger
Warren Oates Johnson
Michelle Phillips
Cloris Leachman
John Ryan
Richard Dreyfuss
Barbara Hershey
Jane Fonda
First Ave. S.E
Samuel Vance
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