#cliftonpowell

[viva1]

Next Friday #foryou #movie #fyp) #film #Mikeepps #cliftonpowell #icecube...

[brandonimhotep]

#BlackLoveAlert ♥️ Pretty in a purple skirt and looking blissfully happy, this is #SashaObama pictured with boyfriend #CliftonPowell Jr., 24 – two days after her mom Michelle let slip she was dating. DailyMail.com can reveal her new man is the son of Ray actor Clifton Powell, 66, and a former college basketball star who now works as a commercial director creating content for Nike and Peloton. He was also close friends with Ian Alexander Jr.– the only son of Powell's Ray co-star Regina King who tragically took his own life in January aged just 25. The couple are believed to have gotten together after Sasha, 20, moved to #LA last August after dropping her studies at the University of #Michigan and switching to a course at #USC. Both Sasha and her sister #Malia, 23, are now based on the West Coast with the older #Obama sibling taking a job as a script writer for Donald Glover's new Amazon project after graduating from #Harvard last year. On Tuesday, former First Lady Michelle gave an update on her daughters during an appearance on the Ellen Show – telling the host: 'They loved the Jonas Brothers. Now they are bringing grown men home. 'Before it was just, like, pop bands. Now they have boyfriends and real lives.' While Malia has been dating Brit Rory Farquharson since meeting him at Harvard in 2017, Sasha's relationship is far more recent. Like Farquharson, who was brought up in a six-bedroom $2.2m home in Suffolk and attended posh Rugby School, Powell Jr has enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle. The second child of Powell and wife Kimberly Crooms, 58, he has an older sister May, 29, and was brought up in the family's Ladera Heights home. Ladera Heights, along with neighboring Windsor Hills, Baldwin Hills and View Park, has been nicknamed 'the Black Beverly Hills' due to its expensive housing and celebrity residents, which at one point included Tina Turner and Ray Charles. Although his father is an actor, mom Kimberly is a successful businesswoman in her own right – running an interior design firm called whateverUneed Designs and a catering company called Chef Kim that offers custom meal prep and diet consulting. https://www.instagram.com/p/CcmFdInrhx-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[michaelworthy25]

Friday at Pinky's

[jamest541975]

HOLIDAY-A-THON 2019 VIDEO 17: FRIDAY AFTER NEXT #holidayathon2019 #fridayafternext #icecube #mikeepps #johnwitherspoon #kattwilliams #kdaubert #terrycrews #doncurry #annamariahorsford #cliftonpowell #rickeysmiley #bebedrake #mazjobrani #joelmckinnonmiller #reggiegaskins #sommore #starlettadupois #khleothomas #brianstepanek #danielcurtislee #gerrybednob #chriswilliams #marcusraboy https://www.instagram.com/p/B6H7vEHlmht/?igshid=1qv8gamaeog79

[terribletriplefeatures]

Some people have never seen a sentient puddle of goo hollow a man from the inside out, spit out a gecko onto a surprisingly large piece of glass that came out of their mouth, and declare themself a god and it shows... #phantoms #rosemcgowan #joannagoing #benaffleck #peterotoole #cliftonpowell #deankoontz #90shorror (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeAXr1LseD4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[17-summers-lifestyle-brand]

Y’all be safe out there, the #grinch is lurking all over!!! 😂 👉🏾 WWW.17SUMMER.COM #happyholidays #xmas #gifts #kwanzaa #pinky #fridayafternext #icecube #cubevision #jinglebells #hoodie #hoodieseason #buyblack #besafe #holiday #17summers #17 #blackownedbusiness #shopsmall #cliftonpowell #daedae #pinky #1225 https://www.instagram.com/17summerslifestyle/p/CX5K-A7MnQ0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[theemarquis]

We know him as Unk Pinky! 🕺🏾 but in this new film he’s a wise & loving father. Great job on set, you make it look too easy 💯 One of the realest I’ve seen off camera too! Thank you for every talk we had & all the knowledge you gave me to leave with ✊🏾 #LUST premieres 4.10 on @LifeTimeTV a @BishopJakes film 🎞 #CliftonPowell #Pinky #Nicka #Lifetime #New #Movie #410 #ActorsLife #Authentic #Unk #SwirlFilms #film (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNaEREEnFp1/?igshid=1nee7rd804gwp

[peachy-queen]

These actors I don’t eem trust in real life.😩😬😒 #cliftonpowell #bokeemwoodbine #hawthornejames #samuelmonroejr #sketchyazznegroes #badguysclub #actors https://www.instagram.com/p/CFCvwlDDKA0K1TSKNXGQiYdLlWQETJKqgR_mx00/?igshid=1npp0j32azta5

[andreastalentmanagement]

Repost from @u_adore_dior • "SAY SUMTHIN ELSE" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 He's played Chauncey, #Cutty but yall will not let that #PINKY character go LOL! Clifton Powell @itscliftonpowell came by just to kick it at @pierrespanicroom & he didn't even wanna leave when it was time to go! He dropped some major jewels & info and told us how he was gonna punch Spike Lee in the face LMFAOOOO!!! He is funny too.. Yall Stay Tuned!!! 😜 Subscribe to COMIC PIERRE on YOUTUBE #pierrespanicroom #tammydior #podcasts #spotify #podcastersofinstagram #podcastsofinstagram #cliftonpowell #applemusic #pinkyfromfriday #cuttyfromdeadpresidents #nextfriday #pinkyfromnextfriday https://www.instagram.com/p/CEIidtAAOP3/?igshid=x6gtv13g2iv8

[lboogiepopworld]

#Repost @thedlhughleyshow @download.ins --- Y’all better say Happy Birthday to #cliftonpowell. He turns 64 today. What’s your favorite role that he’s played or line from one of his roles?🎂(📸: @itscliftonpowell) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9y2oihDj1g/?igshid=1wrhnbxtyh2gk

[mdnicethaking]

He gave us good stuff.. From this being a bad guy in “Low Down Dirty Shame “ “Menace II Society” and “Roc” which unless you not from Baltimore wouldn’t know it was shot here. Show always had good messages and that’s why I miss it, and “One On One.” That starred the sexy Kyla Pratt 💕 But that’s another topic for another time 😩 #CharlesDutton #Baltimore #CliftonPowell https://www.instagram.com/p/B9WZEwAJwFK/?igshid=1pvhwtunevm23

[jamest541975]

HOLIDAY-A-THON 2021 Video 27: FRIDAY AFTER NEXT #holidayathon2021 #fridayafternext #craig #icecube #dayday #mikeepps #mrjones #johnwitherspoon #uncleelroy #doncurry #mrsjones #annamariahorsford #pinky #cliftonpowell #donna #kdaubert #mrspearly #bebedrake #moneymike #kattwilliams #santaclaus #rickeysmiley #damon #terrycrews #moly #mazjobrani #officerdix #reggiegaskins #officerhole #joelmckinnonmiller https://www.instagram.com/p/CWi5PWOvygh/?utm_medium=tumblr

[terribletriplefeatures]

This is the definition of "professionalism." More than any other actor in this movie, O'Toole could have phoned it in and no one would have cared. It's a "silly horror movie." But he BRINGS IT in every scene! #phantoms #peterotoole #cliftonpowell #deankoontz #90shorror (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeAU92SM9lj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[blackcelebritybirthdays]

#CliftonPowell Born: March 16, 1956 @itscliftonpowell #BlackCelebrityBirthdays https://www.instagram.com/p/BvFon9tFuAv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6hpphszj5pcg

[binfluenced]

#teambinfluenced ✊🏾 @elogroupllc @celebritysuperslam #Repost @msshuncmedia with @get_repost ・・・ Super Bowl Weekend #Ochocinco Celebrity Super Slam Charity Event for @ushersnewlook foundation. This event will be 🔥🔥🔥 . . MSC Media will be in the building!! Bringing you footage and media all night! This will be a star studded occasion for a cause! . Tickets Will be sold at the door!! . #MSCMedia #MsShuncMedia #AllThingsMedia #AllThingsEntertainment #Music #Usher #JhonniBlaze #CliftonPowel #RichHomieQuan #SunTrustPark #HoopingForACause #PacManJones #SuperBowl #RadioDjs #Djs #SavvyAffairs #Entertainment #EntertainmentNews #CelebrityNews #WomenInRadio #WomenOnAir #Media #Broadcasting #WomenInBroadcasting #WomenInEntertainment #News #WomenInMusic #WomenInMedia (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtWfi-uhXbu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zj16czqryl2c

[doomonfilm]

Favorites : Menace II Society (1993)

The mid-1990′s were an interesting time in regards to the minority landscape in film.  John Singleton had recently delivered Boyz N the Hood to rousing success, Dr. Dre had just shifted the entire popular representation of hip-hop culture with The Chronic, and echoes of the 1992 Los Angeles riot were still ringing loud and clear.  This was the perfect setting for a film to give an honest and unflinching look at the circumstances that drag people down in the inner-city, and the seemingly unsurmountable obstacles they face in trying to escape.  Enter the Hughes brothers, and their debut offering Menace II Society. 

Caine (Tyrin Turner), a resident of Watts, is no stranger to the criminal life.  As a child, he witnessed his father Tat (Samuel L. Jackson) mix and sell drugs, and he once even witnessed his father kill a man in cold blood.  Now 18 and on the verge of post-graduation summer, he’s already neck deep in trouble, finding himself an accessory to murder and armed robbery thanks to being in a liquor store his friend O-Dog (Larenz Tate) decided to rob after a confrontation gone wrong.  Things get no better when he is shot at near point blank range weeks later during a carjack confrontation between thieves and his cousin (Saafir).  With his grandparents no longer able to have influence over him, Caine is asked to leave home.  He’s been making a connection with Ronnie (Jada Pinkett-Smith), wife of Caine’s former mentor and protector Pernell (Glenn Plummer), and she urges him to move to Atlanta with her family.  With one foot in the streets and one foot in the presence of forces urging him to escape, Caine must make the biggest decisions of his young life, all while making sure the streets don’t get to him first. 

Until Menace II Society, most films that dealt with the 1990′s gangster lifestyle seemed to go for grittiness over style.  The Hughes brothers, however, soaked their film in artistic flare, often using music video techniques to create surrealistic tones to the ultra-honest depiction of life in the Grape Street community of Los Angeles.  The stylistic flare includes slow-motion introductions of key characters, highly expressive lighting choices (particularly in the iconic Bill Duke interrogation scene), visual and sound editing chiaroscuro used to heighten key moments, and an overall highly dramatic visual tone used to offset the bleakness of the environment.  For a debut film, Menace II Society played like work produced by seasoned veterans with a clear vision.  

Seeing rappers outside of the familiar spectrum on film (which, to be honest, was a small list at the time) was extremely exciting.  MC Eiht played a major role in the film as A-Wax, with a considerable amount of screen time and involvement in major scenes that defined the overall narrative.  Saafir, then relatively unknown outside of the underground hip-hop fandom, was a wonderful surprise as Caine’s cousin.  Oakland legends Too Short and Pooh-Man played the guys that ran the trap house, and even Ice Cube protege Yo-Yo (a South Central legend at the time) made an appearance in the film.

What really set this film apart from its contemporaries was its unwillingness to shy away from the bleakness of the situation the characters found themselves in.  Caine, no matter what he did, continued to find ways to sink further into the quicksand his life was rather than make attempts to escape.  The company he kept, outside of Sharif (Vonte Sweet) and Ronnie, were all clearly negative influences.  His upbringing was bleak, his choices were limited and guided by instant gratification, and his values were skewed due to an inability to achieve even a moment of clarity in all of the madness that surrounded him.  In one of the most heartbreaking and thought-provoking endings ever, O-Dog, the one character who continues to show no remorse for his monstrous actions, is the one man left untouched when karma rains down in a hail of bullets. 

First time film actor Tyrin Turner brings an everyman feeling to the lead role of Caine that puts the viewer directly in his shoes, allowing you to feel his stress as the world closes in on him quite effectively.  Fellow film first timer Larenz Tate hit the scene like a bomb, instantly creating easily the most iconic character seen in the hip-hop gangster film to date, and possibly since.  Jada Pinkett-Smith (then just Jada Pinkett) was just beginning her trajectory towards super-stardom, and this was a key step in that process, with her sincerity helping ground the film emotionally.  MC Eiht brought a realness to the film only achieved by the likes of Ice Cube or Ice-T at the time.  Glenn Plummer, then a rising star, brought his earnestness to a pair of appearances in the film.  The list, in all honesty, goes on and on with this film... there are MANY familiar faces, and nobody brings anything less than their A-game.

Outside of Belly and Do The Right Thing, I often consider Menace II Society to be one of the key films in hip-hop cinema as high art.  What the Hughes brothers were able to achieve as first time directors (with the budget of a first time director, at that) is nothing short of phenomenal, and it was only a glimpse at what they had in store.  A must-see for those who have not seen it.