Tag: the Wiz
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How Sidney Lumet Used His One Room Setting In 12 Angry Men To His Advantage
Besides his work on the 1978 Diana Ross and Michael Jackson-starring cult classic “The Wiz,” I know the late, great director Sidney Lumet for his legal/courtroom dramas such tas “The Verdict” and “Find Me Guilty.” I was first introduced to such works in college when a criminal justice professor showed my class Lumet’s first feature film,…
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Quincy review – portrait of a musical legend fails to sing
Rashida Jones’s sanitised bio-documentary about her father, the musician and producer Quincy Jones, fails to exploit her access to her subjectHas any person made as indelible an imprint on African American culture as Quincy Jones? This new bio-documentary makes a compelling case for the point, though that’s the only compelling aspect of this paint-by-numbers film.Directors…
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Hollywood Remembers Craig Zadan: Kevin Bacon, Neil Patrick Harris And Others Pay Tribute To Prolific Producer
Refresh for updates Hollywood figures and celebrities took to Twitter to honor prolific producer Craig Zadan, who died Tuesday after complications following shoulder replacement surgery. Zadan is known for championing musical theater and produced Oscar telecasts as well as the Academy Award-winning film adaptation of the musical Chicago. He is also known for bringing live…