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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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