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Aug 17, 1990 · In Spike Lee’s “Mo’ Better Blues,” that rare movie about jazz in which actors playing musicians actually act and talk like them, Denzel Washington gives what may be the most believable on-screen...
Aug 3, 1990 · Spike Lee’s “Mo’ Better Blues” (citywide), about a talented jazz trumpet player willing to sacrifice every relationship to his music, is by turns seductive, engaging and, finally, maddening.
Mar 26, 2013 · The actress behind Clarke is Chicago’s very own Cynda Williams. Mo’ Better Blues was Williams’ break out role however her first love is singing. “After graduating from Ball State University, I went to New York with the intentions of becoming a Broadway star.
Mo' Better Blues is a 1990 American musical comedy-drama film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee, who also wrote, produced, and directed. [1] It follows a period in the life of fictional jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (played by Washington) as a series of bad decisions result in his jeopardizing both his relationships and ...
- ‘Simplistic and Crude’
- Right to Creative Freedom
- Fashionable to Attack Jews
“Here’s a man who’s creative,” Foxman said of the black filmmaker, “yet he falls back on these stereotypes that are so simplistic and crude. There are many ways to portray greedy people. He had all kinds of choices. That’s the choice he made.” Susan Fowler, a spokeswoman at Lee’s Forty Acres and a Mule production company, said the writer director w...
Lee also questioned in the interview whether the Jewish top executives at Universal Pictures, Lou Wasserman and Sidney Sheinberg, would have released the film if it struck them as obviously anti-Semitic. The two executives were quoted in Variety as defending Lee’s right to creative freedom, and a studio spokeswoman reiterated this point. “We unders...
“Spike can be a martyr now, because it looks as though the big bad Jewish establishment is coming down on this poor black filmmaker,” Medved said. Medved echoed film critic Denby in saying that it has become “fashionable among liberal black circles to verbally attack Jews.” The controversy over “Mo’ Better Blues” is the second in as many months bea...
Aug 11, 1990 · There’s nothing tomboyish now about the 28-year-old actress who currently is starring in her big brother Spike Lee’s new film, “Mo’ Better Blues.” She plays Indigo Downes, one of two...
Apr 20, 2022 · MO’ BETTER BLUES. $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | Late Night Entertainment at the Los Feliz 3. Checking Event Status... *This is an RSVP which means first come first served. This RSVP does not guarantee a seat. Not a Member? Join Today. Already a Member? Be sure you are logged in to your account. RELEASED IN: 1990.
