In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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Episode 53: Kurt Russell
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Usually when someone is the kid of a tv actor, a child star, a pro baseball player, and in a movie about Elvis impersonators, that person tends to suck. However with the power of his luxurious hair and cowboy cadence Kurt Russell has managed to tear a whole in the Hollywood suck space continuum. Whether he’s saving presidents from powerful Scientologists in Manhattan based prisons, having the weird “you’re not the alien father” Maury blood scene, or gaslighting his kidnapee into being his wife Kurt manages to pull off one of the craziest, wildest, careers in the history of Hollywood. The boys discuss with their usual aplomb. You gonna skin that smoke wagon or just sit there and bleed?
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Usually when someone is the kid of a tv actor, a child star, a pro baseball player, and in a movie about Elvis impersonators, that person tends to suck. However with the power of his luxurious hair and cowboy cadence Kurt Russell has managed to tear a whole in the Hollywood suck space continuum. Whether he’s saving presidents from powerful Scientologists in Manhattan based prisons, having the weird “you’re not the alien father” Maury blood scene, or gaslighting his kidnapee into being his wife Kurt manages to pull off one of the craziest, wildest, careers in the history of Hollywood. The boys discuss with their usual aplomb. You gonna skin that smoke wagon or just sit there and bleed?
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