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Sweetback Caught in the Act on Brooklyn Independent Television

Many thanks and a HUGE shout out to Brook­lyn Inde­pen­dent Tele­vi­sion, a com­mu­nity media pro­gram of BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn ! Check them out here
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Ben Sisario profiles Melvin Van Peebles at The NY Times

“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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Late Night at Joe’s Pub, with special guest, Melvin Van Peebles

As the story goes …from a hum­ble begin­ning of only two the­aters and a tor­rent of neg­a­tive reviews, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baasasssss Song” even­tu­ally mush­roomed to domes­tic box office receipts of $10,000,000.00 and landed on Daily Variety’s list of top-grossing films for the year 1971.  Inci­den­tally Sweet Sweet­back was the largest gross­ing inde­pen­dent film up to [...]
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“Sweet Sweetback’s Baddass Song: A Hood Opera” Open Rehearsals at BRICstudio

Two Nights! Feb 3 & 4 Melvin Van Pee­bles & Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber in res­i­dence at BRICstudio 8:00 PM Work-In-Progress (rehearsal) View­ing 9:45 PM Dis­cus­sion w/ Melvin Van Pee­bles 10:00 PM Book Sign­ing & Mer­chan­dise Sales Doors Open @ 7:45 PM Tick­ets Details Com­ing Soon! Join us for an unfor­get­table evening with leg­endary artist and direc­tor [...]
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