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Much prettier than SJP, that’s for sure.
Masculine features and a long face. Not unattractive but I don’t find her beautiful.
I rarely watched a full episode either but it was on tv all of the time when I was in grade school so I still got a sense of it.
Ingrid Bergman was the only woman in her league, IMO.
A luminous beauty.
Agreed. It’s pretty cringe-worthy.
Yes, a good guy fer sure.
Above-average baseline intelligence but somewhat addled by alcohol and weed.
Unexplained. I’d guess some modest trust fund or insurance settlement. But it don’t cost much to (merely) “abide”.
I thought she was fine - in both sense of the term.
Yeppers - better looking than DK.
Religious belief in Satan and Hell are matters of faith, not fact.
That she was. She and the show were underrated.
Beg to differ.
Personally I thought Spike’s prologue and parts of the epilogue detracted from the film. Denzel’s performance and the source material were strong points.
> I think that the consensus is that subtlety is lost on Spike [Lee].
Most definitely. The prologue and epilogue detract from the film but Spike had to editorialize beyond merely curating the events the audience is shown about his subject.
I enjoyed Denzel’s performance but Spike made some creative choices I didn’t care for - among them the zoot suit part at the beginning.
> It wasn't so much that Malcolm was a deviant or "carer criminal." It was just that illegitimate operations--such as prostitution, robbery, and drug dealing--were the only means for black men of Malcolm's generation to attain money.
That’s belied by the fact that Malcolm was able to provide for himself by legal means upon release from prison. And ignores that the vast majority of Blacks at that time provided for themselves through legal means. Malcolm Little made some bad choices early in his life.
They also had a (more recent) role in the emancipation of of Black Americans. Whites and Blacks both enslaved Africans and freed African Americans.
The views of Malcolm Little/Malcolm X/Malik Shabazz evolved over the course of his life. Most people seem to remember and celebrate the militant, segregationist and, frankly, racist views of Malcolm X which he later largely disavowed.