TonyVanDam said:

Spike Short Lee can sit down.

According to Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson:

"ABUSIVE PIMP!"

One day I was getting out of my car when I saw this beautiful brunette coming towards me. She was walking her Afghan hound She was beautiful. She had to walk right by me and I stood there and savored the view.

I said, "Hi, I'm your neighbor. My name is Thomas Henderson. I'm with the Dallas Cowboys." She smiled, but only a little, and kept walking. She was nice but I didn't impress her.

Normally, I was a little shy about approaching white women but this woman was so pretty, I couldn't help myself.

A few days later, I saw her again, walking her dog. I asked her, what's your name? She replied, Christie Blue.

Suddenly a white van made the turn into the parking lot across the street. A look of horror crossed her face. "Oh God," she muttered.

A black dude (Charles) got out of the van. I'd been on the street long enough to know without a doubt that this was his woman. He glared at me.

Later, I came out to get something out of my trunk when I saw her running. Her boyfriend was chasing her. He caught her and I watched him grab her by the hair and drag her back towards their place.

Being around pimps and hustlers all my life I clued right in to what was happening. She was his hooker.

Two days later I saw her passing in her pretty Mercedes and I flagged her down. She was frightened talking to me, looking straight ahead, not making eye contact. I said, "Hey Christie, I saw what happened the other day."

She said, "Yeah, he's crazy and he's jealous." She seemed like a desperate woman. But my lord was she beautiful. Drop dead gorgeous.

I looked in her eyes and said, "You know I wouldn't treat you that way." It was the best I could do. I said, could we have lunch or dinner one day? She said, "no way!" but I knew she liked me.

About halfway into the season she finally agreed to have lunch with me on the low. We went to a four-star hotel. I enjoyed spending money on her. Over conversation I told her, I think I know what you do. She replied, "What do you think I do?"

"I think you're a high class call girl or something like that."

She wouldn't cop to it and then I asked her. You want to get away from your boyfriend don't you? "Yeah, but he'll hurt me."

Unfortunately, Christie couldn't make the move. I continued to see her around the complex and we'd chat and keep an eye out for the white van. This went on for six weeks.

One day, her mouth bloody, two black eyes, her ribs cracked, Christie was pounding on my door. She came in and her boyfriend was close behind. I stood in the doorway and said, "Charles, look here man, what's happening?"

He said, "This ain't none of your business."

We squared off hand-to-hand in my doorway. I told him, "Look, man, it's best you leave my house. This is my fucking house, and she is in my house right now. I slammed the door in his face.

But this thing wouldn't be over until I settled it one way or another. I walked back out to the street where he was. I raged at him, "you don't come over here fucking with me and my friends. As a matter of fact you should move your shit out of her house because this woman don't want you no more. Come fuck with me and I'm going to beat you down, you woman beating c**ksucker." "She's my woman now!" He backed down.

I went back to my apartment and took Christie to the hospital.

When she was released, I brought her back to my apartment for a safe haven.

Christie and I developed a wonderful relationship, an understanding. She continued doing what she was doing. I often had to get up out of bed at three or four o'clock in the morning to let a "john" come over, she was so beautiful, so voluptuous that she was charging a thousand per night and this was in the 80's.

Christie Blue became my best kind of friend. I had pulled her out of something that she didn't want to get back into (an abusive relationship).

We made love like tigers and for a long time she was my woman. Sometimes she'd call over one of her beautiful blonde friends and they would teach me something new, turn me out.

But more than that, we could tell each other anything.

From panachereport

tamewar said:

By then, yep.

Timmy84 said:

1. Adrian kissed her and caught her by surprise

2. Kissing Fred Durst was work related

3. She tryna maintain her rep with the brothers cuz she knew she would never touch another one again after whoring ass Eric Benet. Yep, he ruined her on black men.

JackieBlue said:

What about the recent Dreamgirls ?... Though it's a sort of musical it seemed pretty major to me, and it contains deep & intenses relationship-acting by Jennifer Hudson who won an oscar for that fine work of art.

TD3 said:

Yeah, "Rush Over" originally appears on Marcus Miller's album "Tales", with Me'Shell as guest-vocalist :

2 slightly different versions

TonyVanDam said:

First, that's her baby daddy NOT her husband. Second, Terrance is divorced and ain't an A list actor so it's only black folks interested in seeing that fool and the number dwindled considerable IMO after Hustle & Flow. Wesley often produced his own movies and despite his personal choices casted many a sista opposite him. Halle is an Oscar winning most recognizable black female star on the planet. So best believe she has MUCH say in who her leading man is.

MuthaFunka said:

Can you blame her? All you Negroes do is cheat on her and beat her deaf. Honey that chile got urshers a-plenty!

JackieBlue said:

Why ya'll saying that? There were lots of romantic movies in the late 90s starring black folks. The Best Man, Love Jones, HavPlenty, Love & Basketball, Soul Food, Two Can Play that Game, The Brothers, All them Terry McMillan movies. When's the last time Denzel's been in a strictly romantic movie with a sista EVER though?

JackieBlue said:

co- to that!

MuthaFunka said:

Almost all of his films feature black couples prominently in a positive way, even if that's not the focus of the film. Malcolm X, Jungle Love, School Daze, all have loving black couples in them.

tamewar said:

Spike can't do EVERYTHANG. Damn! And I'm satisfied that he at least attempts to interject and portray black on black love in a POSITIVE way to some degree in his movies which is a lot more than any other director.

MuthaFunka said:

Saw Mahogany last week and GATDAMN if that Billy Dee wasn't foiner than a muhfugga!!!

Timmy84 said:

Denzel, Denzel . . .NOOOOO0OOOOO!!!

SCNDLS said:

I feel like postin' my Ike Turner GIF just for that

BlaqueKnight said:

Halle looks wasted. Cheap tactics!

bboy87 said:

Don't talk about it, BE about it!

PanthaGirl said:

it's in her eyes.

SCNDLS said:

just wait til I find it....

bboy87 said:

SCNDLS said:

To be more specific, the idea is that a major film with a major star won’t or has yet to truly commit to it with possibly one or two exceptions.

All the films you’ve mentioned were not big box office grossers. Say hundred million plus.

We can see Tom Cruise or Brad with anyone, why not Will or Denzel?

The closest Will got was his own wife in Ali. Denzel had Sanaa Lathan (in more ways than one ) but on film in Out of Time. Neither grossed over 100 mil and without giving the story away Sanaa wasn’t the best character.

More often than not, for a big film with a big star they want the love interest to be ‘other’ especially if there’s going to be a love scene. If she’s just a wife/girlfriend in the background they’ll cast Regina King or Kimberly Elise. Now that Jamie’s star has risen will we see him rolling in bed with [black actress]? Even Denzel said he doesn’t get offered many roles for romance or with love scenes. Will knows if they cast Eva or Rosario he gets a love scene. Seven Pounds was his first and that was mild. In some cases the scenes were filmed and later cut out or the characters were desexualized. How is Shaft not going to have a love scene?

It's even worse for Asian actors. When was the last time you saw two Asian actors in a love scene on film other than perhaps Crouching Tiger?

There may be occasional exceptions but the casting and how they think the audience will perceive certain characters and interactions is carefully thought out, even if it's wrong.

JackieBlue said:

Within the context of $100 million grossing films, you're absolutely right. But I blame both the industry AND black folks' lack of support for that. Any of the movies I listed above were on the same level if not better than the ridiculous romantic comedies out today featuring white actors that gross huge numbers. It makes no sense. But hey I can't talk I RARELY go to the movies and when I do it's to see artie, indie films definitely not anything that's a top grossing film.

angel345 said:

Blame It On The Alcohol

Harlepolis said:

You mean



You're not that naive, either.

TD3 said:

Alcohol and then some...

JackieBlue said:

Your 100% right.

MuthaFunka said:

PanthaGirl said:

i never saw her appeal at all , especially here;
plain jane with weird cheekbones
[Edited 6/1/09 9:20am]

SCNDLS said:

Preach!

SCNDLS said:

Hey, David Justice was a "Debargite" so it wasn't the DEEP bruvas!

Dewrede said:

Typical response and right on time too.