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A Good Day to be Black and Sexy Director Dennis Dortch: The Media Diet

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By Brandon Harris posted 11 months ago
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One of the most underrated and overlooked titles at Sundance last year was Dennis Dortch’s A Good Day to be Black and Sexy. Over six vignettes, Dortch takes a daring, authentic and frequently hysterical look at the sexual mores of a young black Los Angelenos. The film, which garnered Dortch a nomination at Tuesday’s Gotham Awards for Best Breakthrough Director, opens in Los Angeles today via Magnolia Pictures. We caught up with Dortch to discuss seeing The Story of a Three Day Pass at MoMA, Marvin Gaye as an auteur and his desire to work with George Clinton. …Read more

Sandler vs. Pandas. Trade Roughage 06/06/08

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By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago
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  • Ahhh! Between Adam Sandler pretending to be Israeli and Jack Black pretending to be cute, nobody knows who’s going to win the weekend box office! Will 8 year-olds be able to clear their schedules to see both?!?!?
  • Serial Andrew Lloyd Webber enabler Cameron Macintosh will co-produce a remake of My Fair Lady, starring Keira Knightley in the Julie Andrews role. Though the producers say they’ll keep the story set in 1912, they’re not only calling it an “update”, but they’re planning on shooting the musical in actual London locations.
  • F. Gary Gray has landed complete rights to the Marvin Gaye catalog, giving his Gaye biopic a theoretical leg-up on another Gaye biopic, one slated to star Jesse L. Martin, which Variety says will only “focus on the singer’s declining years, because the filmmakers have rights to use songs only from his post-Motown career.” Also, that film though “reportedly skedded to start last month in Europe, has not begun production.”