Spike Lee's Environmentalism: Science Fiction

AAEA President Norris McDonald met Spike Lee in Washington, DC where he was signing his new biography by Kaleem Aftab, That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It. Spike is planning a documentary on Hurricane Katrina's impact on New Orleans. McDonald suggested that he consider including climate change in the documentary.AAEA-Hollywood noticed that Spike has not made movies with environmental or science fiction themes. His biography states that he did...

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2005 Black Movie Awards

Film Life's 2005 Black Movie Awards was hosted by Cedric "The Entertainer" and honored the best in Black cinema, both in front of and behind the camera - - past, present and future. Broadcast on the TNT cable channel, executive producers were Jeff Friday, CEO of Film Life and Suzanne de Passe, CEO of de Passe Entertainment.Sidney Poitier received the Distinguished Career Achievement Award and the Color Purple was inducted into the Black Movie Awards Classic Cinema Hall of Fame. The ceremony was taped at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles on Oct....

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Bruce Willis - Apocalyptic Environmentalist?

AAEA President Norris McDonald recently met Bruce Willis at an event honoring him for his commitment to the environment -- notwithstanding EPA hassling him in Idaho. The event on Randall's Island, in the shadow of Manhattan, made McDonald consider the constrast between the environmentalist Bruce Willis and the apocalyptic environmentalist he portrayed (James Cole) in the movie, '12 Monkeys.' The film begins in our future in the year 2035, and presupposes...

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A CIVIL ACTION: A Quintessential Environmental Litigation Film

Jan Schlittman (John Travolta) is a humble, cynical, successful, bachelor lawyer with a nice car, a nice house, and a career that has amassed huge rewards. He agrees to represent eight families whose children died from leukemia after two large corporations leaked toxic chemicals into the water supply of Woburn, Massachusetts, even though the case could mean financial, and career suicide for him.Jan thinks it is one more case he can easily knock out...

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James Brown, Prince & MJ on Same Stage: Energy to Burn

You might not believe it, but click on the link below to see James Brown bring Michael Jackson and Prince up on stage with him.JB-P...

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Petrotheism

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Michael Jackson, Katrina & Oil

After the trial, Michael Jackson took his two sons and daughter to Bahrain, an island off the coast of Saudi Arabia. It is an oil-rich country about 3 times the size of Washington, DC. The heir to the Bahrain kingdom is generously hosting Jackson and evidently helping to finance his comeback. Michael Jackson is evidently using this oil money to produce a song, From The Bottom Of My Heart, to benefit victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Published...

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Desperate Housewives Mirror U.S. Energy Dysfunction

Just as the wacky inhabits of Wisteria Lane on the hit TV show Desperate Housewives want happiness, they seem to do everything in their power to prevent being happy. Notwithstanding the stereotypical slutty latina with a criminal husband and the young black male carrying a gun to feed a mysterious missing father figure hidden in the basement, the pristine suburbs are straight Americana. The whites on the show are pretty dysfunctional too, with murderers,...

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Luther Vandross Songs

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