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Article: Pioneer Melvin Van Peebles gets his due
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 3, 1991
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Hollywood, it seems, has opened its arms to a new generation of
black filmmakers. Now that Eddie Murphy, Spike Lee and Robert
Townsend, among others, have shown their legs at the box office,
every studio wants a black artist to call its own. Directors such
as
Keenen Ivory Wayans, Charles Lane, Euzhan Palcy, Wendell Harris,
Mario Van Peebles, and the Hudlin brothers are either flirting or
fully engaged with major film studios. The movie industry knows the
cutting edge when it sees it gleaming.
None of this would be true were it not for Melvin Van Peebles.
The
director of pivotal films such as "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss
Song"
and "Watermelon Man" has been publicly praised by Lee, ...