Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber » New York Times http://burntsugarindex.com 23rd Century R&B since 1999 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:59:16 +0000 en hourly 1 Ben Sisario profiles Melvin Van Peebles at The NY Times http://burntsugarindex.com/ben-sisario-profiles-melvin-van-peebles-at-the-ny-times/ http://burntsugarindex.com/ben-sisario-profiles-melvin-van-peebles-at-the-ny-times/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:14:03 +0000 Burnt Sugar http://burntsugarindex.com/?p=944 “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 Song.” “I do what I want to do.”

The story includes audio excerpts of the interview.

Check it out here at  NY Times Online

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