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RAFAEL CASAL WITH BLACK TOUGHT - BARS WORKSHOP (2016)

Black Thought and Rafael Casal in conversation at The Public Theater on August 1, 2016.

During the interview, Black Thought shared a number of entertaining stories, including the band's names before they were called The Roots, how The Roots had to compete against Boyz II Men in their high school talent show, and how he first met Questlove. But the story that really stood out seemed like one Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories from Chappelle's Show. Black Thought talked about the time Mos Def left the recording studio to get a fish sandwich:

What impressed me during the interview was Black Thought's work ethic. He had "made it" by any degree of evaluating success, and yet he was working as hard as he ever has. Black Thought said that he "goes for blood" in every performance and gig he does.

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The Unforgiven 1960 (Photo - Lillian Gish behind the scenes - Durango Mexico - filming The Unforgiven (Matilda Zachary))Late in 1958, Huston signed a contract to direct a Western for the production company of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, whose first big hit had been the Academy Award-winning Marty. The film would star Burt Lancaster and be based on the novel The Unforgiven by Alan LeMay. Huston and Ben Maddow, with whom he had written The Asphalt Jungle, began the adaptation. To save money, the film, set in the western United States in the late 1860s, would be shot near Durango, in Mexico, a country that Huston knew well and felt happy working in.In an interview with the Hollywood Citizen-News in 1959, Huston announced, “In The Unforgiven . . . the gross salary of any of the stars — Audrey Hepburn, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster— is more than the entire cost of The Maltese Falcon, which was made for less than $300,000.“ Curtis would drop out of this cast and be replaced by Audie Murphy, but the cost of the film would not drop. It would eventually hit more than $5,000,000, making the project the most expensive Huston had done to that point in his career. There were a number of reasons for the expense. One involved a long delay that occurred when Audrey Hepburn was injured falling from a horse — a recurrent danger in Huston films because of the director’s insistence upon using horses — and had to be hospitalized with a bad back. Another major expense was the house that had to be constructed. There are only two apparently simple houses in the film, one in which the Zachary family (Lancaster, Hepburn, Murphy, Lillian Gish, and Doug McClure) live and the other in which the Rawlins family (Charles Bickford, Albert Salmi, June Walker, Kipp Hamilton, and Arnold Merritt) live. The Zachary house, however, proved to be one of the most expensive sets Huston ever had made. Built against a fake mountain that itself had to be constructed, the house was made in specially fitted sections so it could be taken apart easily for shots at various positions. It was a marvel of engineering, supervised by art director Stephen Grimes. “The house,” said Huston, “was almost as ingenious as the whales built for Moby Dick. It served as a studio as well as our main set because we did our film cutting right there, in the back of the house under the artificial hill.” After each day of shooting, the color film would be flown to England for processing and then flown back to be viewed by Huston. In the finished film, which runs over two and a half hours in its uncut form, the Zachary family, led by the eldest brother, Ben (Lan- caster), is in partnership with the Rawlins family in cattle ranching. The Zachary father had been killed in a Kiowa attack and the Zacharys — particularly Cash (Murphy) — bear a deep hatred for the Indians. A mysterious figure, Kelsey (Joseph Wiseman), dressed in a Union uniform arrives one day and tells the Indians and then the Rawlins family that Rachel Zachary (Hepburn) is really a full-blooded Kiowa. The Zacharys admit that she is a foundling but deny she is Indian. When the oldest Rawlins boy, Charlie (Albert Salmi), is killed by the Kiowa after he courts Rachel, Kelsey is brought in to be hanged for helping the Indians. He again insists that Rachel is an Indian and that he had been with the dead Zachary father when the child was found. The Zacharys deny this and refuse to allow Rachel to be examined. Zeb Rawlins (Bickford) renounces his partnership and sends the Zachary family off alone to fight the Kiowas, who have vowed to take Rachel. The Zacharys find an Indian message indicat- ing Kelsey’s story is true. Mattilda (Gish) admits the truth, and Cash denounces Rachel and leaves. The Zacharys then fight the Indians through the night. Mattilda is killed and Andy (McClure) wounded. Cash returns to help at the last minute, and Rachel kills her own brother, the Indian who has led the war party to get her. Ben announces his plan to marry Rachel and the film ends. The similarity to Huston’s other films can be seen in the search for a truth hidden in the past, a truth that reveals someone has been posing as something he or she is not. This recurrent Huston theme was to be developed even more explicitly in Freud and The List of Adrian Messenger. Again, a small group must stand alone against great odds and risk their lives for a goal or principle, for the first time in a Huston film a principle that involves a group of people held together by racial prejudice. The film is filled with Biblical dialogue and Old Testament refer- ences. “The Lord sayeth, be fruitful and multiply,” says the patriar- chal Zeb. This verselike Biblical prose was to be used even more in Huston’s only other Western, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. There is a strange undercurrent of mysticism in the film. Cash, for example, has special powers and is able to sense the presence of Indians. During the siege of the family house, when he is ten miles away, he tells the Rawlins’ daughter (Walker) exactly what is hap- pening. Kelsey appears as a prophet out of the mist to forecast doom just as Elijah (Royal Dano) in Moby Dick did before the voyage, but still the characters move forward, committed to their path. While the film does adhere to conventions of the Western in many ways, it also introduces some rather bizarre touches. The ghostly presentation of Kelsey throughout the film is one example, but the use of the piano may be even more striking. Ben brings a piano back home from Wichita so that Mattilda can play Mozart. When the Indians play their war flutes — not drums — in the night during the seige, Ben moves the piano outdoors and his mother counters with light classics. The image is surreal and followed by an equally strange sequence in which six Indians are killed in a frenzied attack on the piano. Unfortunately, while reviews were mostly good, The Unforgiven was not popular with audiences. At this point, Huston had made three films away from his home in Ireland and had thoughts about heading back there to work on his Freud project, but he was to be delayed for almost two more years by a film that took him back to the United States.

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Remember Charlie Murphy's true Hollywood stories on the Chappelle show? I was thinking about doing something like that periodically with some of the crazy mess my friends and I were involved in back in the day. I was toying with calling it Shit That Ain't Fit To Print. Names and dates changed to protect reputations.

Still thinking about it though. A lot of live ass shit that only loves in memories. Might be fun to write it out.

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My favorite Chapelle Show skits

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The Chapelle show is my favorite comedy show, although he is often a little uncouth and vulgar, Dave Chapelle is able to identify the flaws in American society (racism, drugs, sexism, classism) and retell them to the audience in a way that makes you both laugh and think. Making Dave Chappell a social activist as well a comedian.

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Charles Quinton Murphy (July 12, 1959 – April 12, 2017) was an actor, comedian, and writer. He was a writer and cast member of the Comedy Central sketch-comedy series Chappelle’s Show, and the co-star of the sitcom Black Jesus. He was the brother of comedian Eddie Murphy.

He was born in Brooklyn. His mother Lillian Murphy was a telephone operator and his father, Charles Edward Murphy, was a transit police officer, actor, and comedian.

He enlisted in the Navy and served for six years as a boiler technician. He had minor roles in several films and worked behind the scenes with the hip-hop group K-9 Posse. On their self-titled debut, he was credited as the album’s executive producer as well as a songwriter on the songs “Somebody’s Brother” and “Say Who Say What.” He made an appearance in the video for the duo’s first single “This Beat Is Military.” His first major role in a motion picture was in the film CB4.

He gained national attention as a recurring performer on Chappelle’s Show, particularly in Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories sketches. He recounts his misadventures as part of his brother’s entourage, including encounters with various celebrities such as Rick James and Prince. He and Donnell Rawlings hosted the “lost episodes” compiled from sketches produced before Chappelle’s departure.

He appeared in King’s Ransom. He did voiceovers for Budweiser radio commercials, provided the voice for Iraq War veteran/criminal Ed Wuncler III on The Boondocks, and was the voice for a pimp named Jizzy-B in Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas video game. He provided the voice for Spock on the Star Trek 2.0 shorts, and the dog in the film, Norbit.

He was married to Tisha Taylor Murphy (1997-2009) until her death from cervical cancer. They had two children together, and he had a child from a previous relationship. He was a karate practitioner. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Neal Brennan // Brand New Setup

As comedy goes, jokes follow a similar pattern. One or more setups, then a punchline. Simple, right? Wrong.

As entertainment goes, stand-up comedy is one of the easiest forms to set up. A stage, amplification, chairs, and a mic, most of which you can expect to find in-house. That’s easy work. Except if you’re Neal Brennan, who seems intent on shuffling the genre's natural order. His most recent works, the 3 Mics comedy special, the How Neal Feel podcast, and Blocks (both a comedy special and podcast series) are all variations on popular themes, which dare to redefine stand-up comedy's traditional form and present it as brand new.

Notably, Brennan is the co-creator of Chappelle's Show, appearing fleetingly on-screen but more so behind the scenes, including being the unseen interviewer to Charlie Murphy’s interviewee on those Prince and Rick James E True Hollywood “stories”.

Tonight’s variation sees Brennan venture to lands unknown, i.e. London, England, and specifically the Leicester Square Theatre to showcase his new comedy vehicle Brand New Neal. While the setup doesn't involve multiple microphones or other onstage objects, Brennan comes equipped with excellent observations on subjects ranging from clap-happy influencers to porn film titles that really flex his status as a technical comedian. A comedian who really gets under the bonnet (or hood if you're Neal) of life, if life itself was a beaten up pick-up truck, and emerges with his unique diagnosis, one set up at a time.

Adhering to the unwritten spirit of stand-up specials, they'll be no reveals here. If you can't catch Brennan on tour, Brand New Neal is sure to be snapped up by a streaming service at your convenience. All I will say is that if you're of a fairer complexion, you'll never look at the sun the same way again.

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And now, the single most important Splatfest ever...this month. (Part 2)

You think Marina likes waffles?

Lies, LIES!

It gets weirder.

It shows.

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