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"So I said `Ba-ad Asssss,' like you really say it An unlit cigar perpetually clenched in his teeth, Melvin cruises Hollywood on a mean motorcycle, riding out to the desert with son Mario to ponder his options "I'm in the business I love The film is based on Melvin's book about the making of "Sweetback Melvin used the X rating as a marketing gimmick, printing T-shirts that read, "Rated X by an All White Jury" to advertise "Sweetback" at the only two U S " What if, Melvin wonders, he made a movie about a street brother, a black hustler turned revolutionary against the man? "Another comedy?" young Mario asks " Studio bosses were calling him "Mel, baby" and talking up three-picture deals "Especially black America "Melvin said to me once, `There's two loves in your life "Sweetback" caught fire with black audiences, eventually grossing $15 million and becoming one of the most profitable independent films in U S "Shaft" followed soon after, heralding a wave of Hollywood-backed flicks with street-tough black leads Mario opens "Foot" with the crossroads Melvin came to after "Watermelon Man He also traumatizes 13-year-old Mario by having him act in a flashback sex scene to show how the character Sweetback lost his virginity The action closes with a touching father-son scene, with Mario as his dad and the actor playing young Mario sharing a theater seat, watching "Sweetback" in a crowded cinema " Melvin said his son's film is an accurate dramatization of the story behind "Sweetback," including the real gun that got slipped into a prop drawer of phony weapons and a cash infusion from Bill Cosby to finish the film ' But I wanted the core audience, the target audience, to know it's for them," Melvin said What a kick Melvin misspelled "Bad Ass" because it allowed him to get the film's name into advertisements in some newspapers, and because it fit the movie's tone What you do, and who you do it with,'" Mario said " "I could have called it `The Ballad of the Indomitable Sweetback " But they did put black performers and crew members to work, and the legacy of "Sweetback" finally began paying off with the arrival of such black filmmakers as Spike Lee, John Singleton and the Hudlin brothers in the 1980s and 1990s, he said "I wouldn't do that with my kids, but I'll do other stuff to them that they won't like," said Mario, who was embarrassed by the scene but grateful the movie had an X rating, so his friends couldn't see it But Melvin's dead serious, and he took on a story that Hollywood ran screaming from history Melvin Van Peebles was disheartened by the "blaxploitation" wave, saying those movies scrapped the revolutionary spirit of the black-power movement in favor of stereotypical fare meant to cash in on the success of "Sweetback In 1970, Melvin became the toast of Hollywood for his satiric comedy "Watermelon Man," about a white bigot who wakes up one day to find he's turned black " Melvin is portrayed as obsessed and exhausted during the 19-day shoot, a fiercely self-absorbed artist who leaves his crew stewing in jail for the weekend rather than jeopardize his movie "Hollywood liked to see us clowning, but America wasn't in a laughing mood," Melvin's character says in the film's voice-overs Melvin Van Peebles insisted on a realistic rendering He begged, borrowed and ultimately used his own money to make "Sweetback," in which Melvin casts himself as an urban sex stud on the lam after retaliating against racist cops who are beating a black man theaters that initially agreed to show the movie I got to do a movie about a cat that I love, while he's still there to see it "One thing he told me was, `Don't make me too nice,'" Mario, 46, said in an interview with The Associated Press alongside his 71-year-old father Story of 'Sweetback' Premiers in Toronto Sep 9, 1:37 PM EST Mario Van Peebles has just walked a mile in his father's shoes â€â€? no easy road to take when Dad's the godfather of black cinema and the unwitting sire of 1970s "blaxploitation" flicks, all rolled into one cigar-chomping package The title alone was revolutionary The younger Van Peebles co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in "How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Asss!" He plays his father, Melvin Van Peebles, in a raucous account of how his dad made the revolutionary 1971 black-power film "Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song They spoke at the Toronto International Film Festival, where the movie premiered and Mario shopped it to potential distributors Singleton appears in "Foot," along with Melvin's filmmaking contemporary, Ossie Davis, who plays Melvin's father " At times a loving portrait, "Foot" more often depicts a tyrannical artist who did not hesitate to put his work ahead of friends and family â€â€? including son Mario, then 13 29, 1940, actress Hattie McDaniel became the first black to win an Oscar In 1980, the sheriff of Mason City, Iowa, discovered Buddy Holly's glasses and the Big Bopper's watch in some old police files They divorced in 1988 She won best supporting actress for her role as Mammy in "Gone With The Wind In 1976, Michael Nesmith of The Monkees married Kathryn Bild immigration visa expired Leap Year birthdays: Actor Alex Rocco is 17 (born 1936) He struggled for three and a half years to keep from being deported Bobbie Gentry won the best new artist Grammy, the first country-and-western star to do so Today in Entertainment History Feb 29, 10:53 AM EST On Feb Actor Dennis Farina is 15 (born 1944) In 2000, guitarist Dennis Danell of Social Distortion died of a brain aneurysm in Newport Beach, Calif Holly and the Big Bopper had been wearing those items when their plane crashed in 1959 " In 1968, "Sgt S In 1972, John Lennon's U Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles won the Grammy for album of the year, plus three other Grammys Actor Antonio Sabato Junior is 8 (born 1972) Rapper Ja Rule is 7 (born 1976) He was 38 |
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