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Thread started 12/23/10 8:16am

Harlepolis

"Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who sat by the Door" - New Upcoming Documentary

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nfiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 50-minute documentary on the controversial and repressed 1973 film The Spook Who Sat By the Door. Through interviews, with author Sam Greenlee, Berlie Dixon, widow of director Ivan Dixon, Academy Award winning editor Michael Kahn, actors David Lemieux, Janet League-Katzin, J.A. Preston, Paul Butler, Melvin Van Peebles, academics, Ed Guerrero, Todd Boyd and Eric Pierson; archival footage and production documents, Infiltrating Hollywood tells the story of The Spook Who Sat by the Door from its inception as a novel to its release and repression.

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Reply #1 posted 12/23/10 11:37pm

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nfiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 50-minute documentary on the controversial and repressed 1973 film The Spook Who Sat By the Door. Through interviews, with author Sam Greenlee, Berlie Dixon, widow of director Ivan Dixon, Academy Award winning editor Michael Kahn, actors David Lemieux, Janet League-Katzin, J.A. Preston, Paul Butler, Melvin Van Peebles, academics, Ed Guerrero, Todd Boyd and Eric Pierson; archival footage and production documents, Infiltrating Hollywood tells the story of The Spook Who Sat by the Door from its inception as a novel to its release and repression.

Thanks, it's time for me to read this book again.

Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise.
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Reply #2 posted 12/24/10 12:48am

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Thanks for this.

I love The Spook Who Sat By the Door, and not long ago, I was just thinking about all the social developments since 1973 that would make any sort of remake incredibly complex -- the same in some ways, but very different in others.

Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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