Monthly Archives: January 2010

Ben Sisario profiles Melvin Van Peebles at The NY Times

By Burnt Sugar | Published: January 22, 2010
“ASK Melvin Van Pee­bles about his legacy, and you get a snort, a gri­mace, a wave of the hand, a game-show error buzz and a finely punc­tu­ated “come on.” “I didn’t even know I had a legacy,” he said between rehearsals for his lat­est project, a musical-theater adap­ta­tion of his 1971 film “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss [...]
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Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (the Hood Opera)

By Burnt Sugar | Published: January 22, 2010
The unfor­get­table Melvin Van Pee­bles’ movie Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) is an iconic work of Afro-American cin­ema and the begin­nings of Blax­ploita­tion. It was one the biggest suc­cesses in the inde­pen­dent film-making and still has a huge influ­ence over the hip-hop cul­ture. Melvin Van Pee­bles’ own com­po­si­tions really deter­mine the action by invent­ing some­thing [...]
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Happy 2010 to all the love warriors

By Burnt Sugar | Published: January 1, 2010
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