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	Black and White (1999 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Black and White is a 1999 film directed by James Toback, starring a cast of young actors and celebrities including Elijah Wood, Claudia Schiffer, Brooke Shields, Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr.
		The movie also notably features Ben Stiller in a rare dramatic role as a sleazy police detective, as well as Mike Tyson playing himself.
		The movie vaguely explores the relationships between different Black and White people in New York, New York circa 2000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_and_White_(1999_film) (190 words)

	Black and White (2000): Power, Bijou Phillips, Raekwon, Claudia Schiffer - PopMatters Film Review
		"Black and white: what happens," asks the film's tagline, "when you mix it up?" No doubt, this is an intriguing and immediately relevant question: white kids consume hip-hop, fl kids aspire to hip-hop wealth and fame, fl and white kids spend time, money, and bodily fluids with one another.
		Tyson fulfills the conservative white culture's fantasy that fl men are dangerous and wild, and Terry/Downey's overtures just happen to be the predictable and apparently "comic" stimulus (the film's sympathy for and understanding of its gay characters are, shall we say, limited).
		White guys are left out of this new sex-and-violence power dynamic, left to be gay or ignored or generally enfeebled by comparison to their amazing fl male rivals.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/b/black-and-white.shtml (2215 words)

	Black and White
		Black and White is the first film that I know of to examine how white kids emulate fl kids, thus blurring the line between the two.
		The movie itself is put together the same way, in that there are different stories present, all of which overlap in interesting and intriguing ways.
		Black and White is not for the mainstream, but those looking for a different kind of film will do well by watching this one.
	www.geocities.com /~moviecritic/reviews/b/blackandwhite.html (487 words)

	3BlackChicks™... go Beyond The Screen with: Terrence Spivey
		They are individuals leading actors in a cavalry of whites, giving them crossover appeal, but that type of movie is still booked in the fl and white community.
		I have been to a few predominantly area theaters that took chances booking a fl film, and the fls in the theaters were well-behaved.
		Yes, white folks love and dance to our soul music because they are safe in their own abodes to dance around the fires.
	www.3blackchicks.com /bts-terranceboxoff.html (1181 words)

	The Black Commentator - Magic Negro - Issue 49
		In 1943 alone, fl men became the moral conscience of white characters in four World War II movies: "Sahara, " "Bataan," "Crash Dive" and "Life Boat." Cripps is especially fond of the example set by actor Rex Ingram in "Sahara," the tale of a tank full of men lost in the desert.
		Audiences — fl and white — seem to be accepting of these one-note roles, judging by the financial success of "Bringing Down the House," which brought in about $130 million, and "Bruce Almighty," which has raked in $149 million and was ranked No. 2 at the box office.
		In the movie, Coffey cures the jaded prison guard of corrosive cynicism and a kidney infection.
	www.blackcommentator.com /49/49_magic.html (1548 words)

	Movie Reviews: White Man's Burden, Doctor Who
		Blacks are well educated, have good jobs and are in the majority.
		Whites fill the inner cities, have less advantages and are in the minority.
		White moviegoers will undoubtedly find some scenes unsettling, such as when one character flips through television channels to find mostly fl faces, or when a police search turns into a Rodney King style beating.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue21/movie.html (1017 words)

	"Black Cat, White Cat" - Salon
		"Black Cat, White Cat," his ebullient farce set among the Gypsies and gangsters who roam a dilapidated stretch of the Danube, is a reckless, explosive production that does everything the movies have forgotten how to do.
		When art houses are filled with tepidly tasteful, multinational crapola like "The Red Violin," it's thrilling to see something this profane, mythic and, most of all, not bored with life, love and the possibilities of cinema.
		It's a movie in which death is treated as a minor (and temporary) inconvenience, in which we see a pig eat a car, a recalcitrant bride thrown down a well and a woman remove a nail from a plank in a most unusual manner.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/1999/09/23/cat/index.html (980 words)

	New Partisan - New Partisan - - Should White Rappers Be Executed?
		I know he is convinced that “Black and White,” a 1999 movie in which Mike Tyson is portrayed as something of a Buddha-like figure before assaulting a fey white man who makes a trembling pass at him, offers significant insights into American culture.
		White fascination with hip-hop is, partly, the result of the same love and fear of fl culture that has always fueled white fascination with fl forms.
		The image of the white bull lynching the son of the fl mammy whom he adored, never drawing the line between their common humanity, is an archetype.
	www.newpartisan.com /home/should-white-rappers-be-executed.html (1338 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Black and White (1999)
		Black and White never gels into anything revelatory or sits still long enough to capture an idea and nail it down.
		The watchability quotient is low in Black and White due to a lackluster plot that kicks in as late as possible into the film, and then provides more of a distraction than a framework for Toback's ideas.
		Will is an obsequious white homeboy, anxious to prove to Bower that he's as hard and tough as any of the brothers in his entourage.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/b/blackandwhite.htm (1098 words)

	IGN: Black & White Preview
		Black & White is one of the most anticipated games of this year, and for good reason.
		Like Populous, Black & White is a "God game" of sorts; and although you are not specifically a deity--you are an interloping mage from another dimension--you do have godlike powers over the inhabitants of a strange little land, a perfectionist little place called Eden.
		But unlike Dungeon Keeper with its fairly static creatures, the monsters of Black & White are meant to be custom-built and individually trained, literally bred for whatever role you as the evil genius demand.
	pc.ign.com /articles/123/123897p1.html (6047 words)

	Amazon.com: Black & White: DVD: Scott Caan,Robert Downey Jr.,Stacy Edwards,Oliver 'Power' Grant,Gaby Hoffmann,Allan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Phillips' father is not just an ordinary white man, he's an upper crust snob with an affected accent, a fl servant, and an amount of money that only the actors and director of this film would find average.
		He has some moderate understanding of the peculiar way that fls and whites are relating to each other in the new era, at least in New York.
		Black & White is mostly engaging and thought provoking, rarely boring, with a cast of complex characters.
	www.amazon.com /Black-White-Allan-Houston/dp/B00004W21Z (1910 words)

	SPACE.com -- New Theory: Universe Was Born in a Black Hole
		If fl holes and the Big Bang befuddle you, try wrapping your brain around this one: The entire universe may have been created in an explosion inside a fl hole.
		The Big Bang has been compared to fl holes before, because the tremendous crush of matter that defines a fl hole is much like the unfathomable density that preceded the Big Bang.
		Temple also describes the whole scenario as a white hole, the theoretical opposite of a fl hole because it tosses matter outward instead of pulling it in.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/white_hole_030917.html (622 words)

	Hattie Or HalleAnd the Oscar Goes To? Halle Berry - BlackSeek.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is a known fact that Hattie McDaniel and the other fl actors in Gone With The Wind could not attend the star-studded premiere of that movie in Atlanta in 1939 due to the rigid segregation in the South.
		On the other hand, Halle Berry's movie is about the exploration of the growing love between her fl waitress character and Thornton's white cop character.
		Of course, McDaniel's acting did not represent what she really believed fl women were actually like; her characters were nothing more than the mirror of white America's false assumptions of what fl women should be like.
	www.blackseek.com /articles/2002/03/mr_halle_berry.htm (895 words)

	Cash In On White Corn
		Like the movie, seven farmers have worked hard to uphold a sense of fairness by providing an alternate market for white corn — for themselves and other farmers in the area.
		According to the group, growing white corn takes a different mindset and farmers need to be financially rewarded to make sure it's done right.
		White corn is generally used as an ingredient in masa, tortilla chips, snack foods and grits.
	cornandsoybeandigest.com /mag/soybean_cash_white_corn/index.html (513 words)

	Jungle Fever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Moreover, some white people would tell you that they have fl friends, etc. and think of themselves as open-minded when it comes to fls.
		Some fl women dislike the fact that there is already a scarcity of "good" fl men out there.
		If she is white, that does not matter to me." He dates many kinds of women of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.
	www.blackseek.com /articles/2001/06/fever.htm (546 words)

	Black & White Preview
		I remember Peter saying once that Black and White is the pinnacle and the epitome of his work thus far.
		Black and White takes the ideas of toying with good and bad, and the concept of religion, or human belief rather (as addressed in Populous, and Dungeon Keeper), and just takes them to another level.
		In short, Black and White introduces three revolutionary concepts: The Creatures, reflection of one's personality in a video game, and an intelligent way of asking some fundamental, existentialistic questions.
	www.actiontrip.com /previews/blackwhite.phtml (739 words)

	Black and White
		With Black and White, writer-director James Toback (Fingers, Two Girls and a Guy) confronts the topic of race head on--most specifically, the influence of fl urban hip-hop culture on white America.
		Black and White is surely James Toback's Nashville wannabe.
		This movie doesn't provide the luxury of detachment; it forces us to sort out the confusing racial dramas of contemporary America, and it's far more involving because it has no narrator telling us what to feel.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1096182-black_and_white (1004 words)

	Salon Books \| Black and right (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A biography of the celebrity-loving man of letters -- friend of Auden and Isherwood, surrogate son of Eliot and Woolf -- whose social calendar was one of his finest works.
		Utter the words "right wing" to your typical liberal, and he or she is likely to conjure up a Bosch-like inferno of white sheets, helmet-haired blonds and pollution-loving robber barons.
		Far be it from me, a mere arts journalist, to suggest that this gaudy image, however satisfying, does considerable injustice to a complicated phenomenon.
	www.salon.com /books/int/1999/11/10/sowell (793 words)

	FILM REVIEW: Black Cat, White Cat -- A World of Their Own
		Black Cat, White Cat is not a masterpiece, for sure -- but it feels as wildly fresh and original as just about anything we saw this year.
		The subtext of Black Cat, White Cat lies precisely at this borderline between politics and anthropology, describing (as opposed to explaining) in astonishing detail the way this world exists.
		But most of these realizations come after the movie, during the film it’s hard to take one’s eyes (or, for that matter, ears: the soundtrack is irresistible) off the screen.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V119/N50/Black-White_cat.50a.html (568 words)

	Hop Scotch versus Hip Hop: Questions of Culture, Power and Resistance in School Life
		She believes the film which was a sensation in White circles, but had little impact at all on hip-hop culture, "amounted to little more than a regurgitation of the same old racial stereotypes".
		For Whites brought up in suburbia or in affluent, homogenous urban neighbourhoods, the biggest, nastiest, lustiest most uninhibited edge they can find in their nearly all White experience is dressing up 'Black', talking 'Black', walking 'Black' even if their 'Black' is a distorted MTV version.
		The position presented by the movie Black and White that White youth are playfully engaging in Black culture as an antagonistic rebellion to middle class value systems could be viewed as narrow and unsupported by the recent growth in localised Hip Hop cultures in countries around the world.
	www.aare.edu.au /02pap/mal02539.htm (5173 words)

	CNN - Review: 'Black Cat, White Cat' is semi-linear nonsense - October 7, 1999
		His always-busy frame now is crawling with ridiculous minutiae, everything from jugglers to the seemingly endless flocks of geese that tail the main characters wherever they go.
		At the very least, you'll be able to tell your friends you've seen an obese, singing woman pull a nail out of plank with her...
		Maybe "Black Cat, White Cat" is some kind of cryptic political allegory, but it's gotten lost in the wall-to-wall hysteria.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9910/07/review.blackcat/index.html (819 words)

	Black On White - Moviefone
		Black and White (1999/I) Black and White on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		Black and White movie review The movie focuses primarily on white people adopting fl identities but also touches upon the issues of fl people trying to make new lives out of...
		Black On White - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /movie/black-on-white/1116572/main (157 words)

	Black and White
		But while Black and White may be thematically sound, it fails on nearly every other count - as character study, as improvisatory exercise, as technically competent filmmaking, and most of all, as believable drama.
		By the end we have learned that rich white kids imitate fls to 1) rebel against their parents; 2) try to escape themselves and the pain of adolescence; and 3) see how the other half lives for a little while, before gratefully going back to being rich and white.
		But we learn all this in the first third of the movie, which is the loosest, freshest, most intriguing part.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/BlackandWhite.htm (622 words)

	Black Cat, White Cat (1999): Reviews
		One frenetic movie that doesn't know when to quit -- and leaves you wishing it could go on forever.
		There is a point in the movie when this mayhem crosses the line from wildly imaginative to downright insufferable.
		Insane but touching, outrageous but lyrical, absurd but magical, often disgusting but always good humored, this features all the signature strengths of Emir Kusterica whose films are orgies and feasts celebrating the circus-like musicality of human experience.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/blackcatwhitecat (634 words)

	A Day in Black and White (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This movie, if you have never seen it, really gets you thinking.
		I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for A Day in Black and White (1999)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0184384 (265 words)

	Movie Info for Black and White on MSN Movies
		The inner workings of the New York hip-hop scene, and the fascination of white observers with rap music and hip-hop culture, set the stage for this drama written and directed by James Toback.
		Sam (Brooke Shields), a filmmaker, is making a documentary about Rich and his circle, with the help of her husband Terry (Robert Downey Jr.), a closeted homosexual who doesn't feel at home in this milieu.
		Also contributing to Black and White's supporting cast are controversial boxing legend Mike Tyson, musician Bijou Phillips, Wu Tang Clan rapper Raekwon, model Claudia Schiffer, and Donald Trump's former spouse Marla Maples.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=3366 (197 words)

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	3BlackChicks Review™... LOVE AND BASKETBALL (Bams)
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		I had a very hard time believing that the thing which changed their relationship (trying to avoid spoilers here) would've really done so; since they both were in very similar situations, there's no way one of the characters should've been so pigheaded as to huff and puff about...that thing.
		"A more interesting movie would have focused on her and the injustice that women athletes face in male-dominated sports where they are unable to compete professionally or be taken seriously by sports fans, writers and financiers.
	www.3blackchicks.com /bamslovebball.html (1350 words)

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