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Amazon.ca: A Huey P. Newton Story - DVD: DVD Spike Lee directed this made-for-cable adaptation of Roger Guenveur Smith's one-man show about the life and times of Huey P. Newton, who as one of the founders and key strategists of the Black Panther Party was among the most respected and feared figures in the Black Power movement of the late '60s and early '70s. A Huey P. Newton Story combines footage of Smith's play being performed before a live audience (featuring Smith, a member of Spike Lee's stock company, in the title role) with newsreel... While maintaining the essential stagey character of Roger Guenveur Smith's one-man show about the late black revolutionary, A Huey P. Newton Story offers plenty of stylistic flourishes to "open up" the play, beginning with several roving cameras and what must be an average shot time of around five seconds. www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000EMYBQ   (594 words)

A Huey P. Newton Story In A Huey P. Newton Story—based on the leader of the Black Panthers—Smith has found a character with painful inner contradictions: a shy legal scholar who became the voice of a self-empowerment organization, only to see his efforts derailed by the U.S. government and his own demons and addictions. The unscripted show is constantly evolving, allowing Smith to recreate Newton each night as a breathing, sweating, Kool-smoking, stuttering, coked-up testament to improvisation that embodies the man and the faces of his cause. "A black beret, a black leather jacket, a spear in one hand, a gun in the other," said Smith of the familiar image of Newton last fall before the Philly Fringe. www.citypaper.net /articles/050699/ae.six.pick2.shtml   (146 words)

NEWS: GSC: Demerits not on ballot During its run Off-Broadway, "A Huey P. Newton Story" garnered Obie Awards for Smith and Thompson, a Helen Hayes Award for Smith, as well as two Drama Desk nominations. Wesleyan campus in Middletown, CT. "A Huey P. Newton Story" is the culmination of Outside the Box: A Series of Ground-Breaking Performances and Discussions in Theater. Smith’s performance, largely assembled from Newton’s own writings and interviews, is complemented by Marc Anthony Thompson’s mix of archival sounds and original music. www.wesleyan.edu /argus/oct2000/a2.html   (634 words)

Combustible Celluloid - A Huey P. Newton Story (2002) Smiths' Newton seems amused that the FBI keeps "thousands" of pages about him in their files and imagines that he hears J. Edgar Hoover sneaking up on him in high heels. But Smith has clearly done his homework on Newton, the leader of the Black Panthers, and one of the most outspoken leaders in African-American history. I won't profess to be familiar with the real-life Newton's speech and behavior patterns, but Smith creates a more than convincing persona. www.combustiblecelluloid.com /2002/hueypnew.shtml   (684 words)

UC Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Black Panther Party Huey Newton pleads not guilty, Oakland, to '74 murder of Kathleen Smith and assault of Preston Collins. Huey Newton is acquitted of of charges of murdering Kathleen Smith, 17, an alleged prostitute. Huey Newton urges all African Americans, poor people and political progressives to back Representative Shirley Chisholm for Democratic presidential nomination; Newton contends that the BPP is "putting down the gun" to work within the system to advance black community. www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/pacificapanthers.html   (9584 words)

A review by Frederick B. Hudson: Huey P. Newton Story: A Movie for Our Times Huey Newton could not make the sun rise by himself, but this production makes us realize how much the human spirit can rise as we watch and wait for our own songs. Smith's task is a daunting one-Newton's speeches and writings revealed much of the hypocritical nature of a nation which assimilated much of many "inferior cultures"-the native American, the Black, the east Indian in its music, clothing, art, and religious rituals, but has credited little to those outside the mainstream pale. We see Smith who physically resembles Newton in a mesh cage holding court for a surrounding multiracial audience. www.agoodblackman.com /hudson_newton.shtml   (9584 words)

Theatre Mirror Reviews - "A Huey Newton Story" Smith honestly says that the text is 80% Huey --- from his writing, interviews, etc. But that remaining 20% of how to stage the material and where to place it all is 100% genius. Smith's Huey gets more and more agitated, and more and more high. It felt like Huey back from the dead, ranting and raving about how we ought to wake up and be scared... www.theatermirror.com /huey.htm   (9584 words)

A review by Frederick B. Hudson: Huey P. Newton Story: A Movie for Our Times Smith's task is a daunting one-Newton's speeches and writings revealed much of the hypocritical nature of a nation which assimilated much of many "inferior cultures"-the native American, the Black, the east Indian in its music, clothing, art, and religious rituals, but has credited little to those outside the mainstream pale. Huey Newton could not make the sun rise by himself, but this production makes us realize how much the human spirit can rise as we watch and wait for our own songs. We see Smith who physically resembles Newton in a mesh cage holding court for a surrounding multiracial audience. www.agoodblackman.com /hudson_newton.shtml   (809 words)

WashingtonPost.com: `Huey Newton': the Fire Within In a sense, "A Huey P. Newton Story" is a companion piece to Studio's "Hip 2: The Birth of the Boom." Smith's Newton combusts in the hell that the latter show's Afro Jo is struggling to stay out of. Smith is the author, director, designer, actor and inhabiting spirit of "A Huey P. Newton Story." This is an incarnational performance, in which the actor seems to be calling down forces to possess him and help tell his story. Newton spoke and planned and built and posed for a famous poster wearing shades and a beret and carrying a monster gun; he made Malcolm X look like some sort of suited-up businessman. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/local/longterm/theater/reviews/hueypnewtonstory.htm   (751 words)

Playbill Features: STAGE TO SCREEN: A Huey P. Newton Movie Smith is well aware, however, that Huey P. Newton is one of the least iconic of the major civil rights figures. Smith believes this is because Newton was at his least accessible — he spent time in jail, in Cuba and in the relative obscurity of academia — during the period when he was most notorious. The vast majority of "Huey P. Newton" was taped during one live performance of the play — "just one man, one chair and 20 Kool cigarettes" — last November at the Angel Orensanz Center on the Lower East Side. www.playbill.com /features/article/66536.html   (1301 words)

City Pages - Newton's Laws Huey was--is--a character who is amenable to the stage," explains Smith, who spent months plowing through old manuscripts, videos, audiotapes, even Newton's wardrobe and record collections at the Huey P. Newton Foundation in San Francisco. Huey P. Newton cut a stark image, but the man behind the poster is blurrier. The success of the work hinges on Smith's canny ability to portray Newton by refusing to judge him on any terms but his own. www.citypages.com /databank/21/996/article8336.asp   (1191 words)

Elderly Instruments Videos Mac discusses the styles and techniques of Huey "Piano" Smith, Tuts Washington, Herbert Santina, Allen Toussaint, and others. In DVD Two it's Huey "Piano" Smith, Tuts Washington, Herbert Santina, Allen Toussaint, and tunes like "Rockin' Pneumonia," "Tipitina," "Cow Cow Blues," "Louisiana Lullaby," more. In DVD One he discusses and teaches the songs of Professor Longhair, Pine Top Smith, Champion Jack Dupree, Fats Domino, & others, and tunes like "Frankie and Johnny," "C.C. Rider," "Blueberry Hill," more. www.elderly.com /videos/950.htm   (1922 words)

A Huey P. Newton Story PBS Produced by Luna Ray Films, A Huey P. Newton Story is the film adaptation of Smith's Obie Award-winning, off-Broadway solo performance of the same name. Originally born in a small town in Louisiana and later moving with his family to Oakland, California as an infant, Huey P. Newton became the co-founder and leader of the Black Panther movement for over 2 decades. It was filmed before a live audience and Spike Lee directs the film with his signature mix of film and archival footage to capture the thoughts of this revolutionary political leader. www.pbs.org /hueypnewton   (157 words)

Huey Newton Huey Newton's 'Story': Roger Guenveur Smith To Star In Spike Lee Film (Sacramento Observer) The story of Huey Newton and Black Panthers to end up in Oakland Museum. Black Panthers - Black Panthers, U.S. African-American militant party, founded (1966) in Oakland, Calif., by Huey P. Bobby Seale - Bobby Seale black activist Born: 10/22/1936 Birthplace: Dallas, Tex. Seale, with Huey Newton,... www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0800612.html   (422 words)

A Huey P. Newton Story - Revolution - Visitor Feedback I'm 33 so my recollection of Huey Newton is limited to primarily books and old footage, but Roger Guenveur Smith was so excellent in playing Huey it was scary. Roger didn't try to be Huey, he didn't imitate Huey, HE WAS HUEY P. I dont know why he didn't play him in that awful movie called "Panther" but I see why he didn't because he was saving the best for last. I felt that A Huey P. Newton Story captured the essence of HPN as well as made it plain that he was indeed "a human being", like the rest of us who was held to an almost impossibly high standard. ahueypnewtonstory.com /revolution/revolution_feedback.html   (422 words)

Culturebot.org: Roger Guenveur Smith Roger Guenveur Smith is a writer, director and performer best known for his Obie Award-winning solo performance A Huey P. Newton Story, which was subsequently adapted for television by Spike Lee, where it won a John Foster Peabody Award. Smith’s new performance, Iceland, opens Thursday, February 26th,2004 at P.S. You have described Iceland as "a meditation on exile, the cataclysmic terror of nature and the no-less-catastrophic terror of man." What was the origin of the piece? Smith will make his cinematic directorial debut this spring with Who Killed Bob Marley, produced on location in Jamaica by Steven Soderbergh. www.culturebot.org /interviews/000062.php   (645 words)

InView Roger Guenveur Smith Roger Guenveur Smith is an Obie-award winning writer and performer, a former Ph.D. candidate in history, whose original solo theatrical work, "A Huey P. Newton Story," examines the life of the legendary co-founder of the Black Panthers. INDEPENDENT VIEW: For Roger Smith, this film is the crowning achievement of a campaign that began several years ago, when he saw his first Spike Lee movie. ROBERT GUENVEUR SMITH: I sat through She's Gotta Have It, and I sat inview.kqed.org /interviews/24/interview.html   (77 words)

A Huey P. Newton Story - Revolution - Visitor Feedback PBS Roger Guenver Smith displayed this struggle in his portrayal of Huey P. Newton that struck me in the head and the gut and the heart. Roger didn't try to be Huey, he didn't imitate Huey, HE WAS HUEY P. I dont know why he didn't play him in that awful movie called "Panther" but I see why he didn't because he was saving the best for last. Roger, I think your journey from conception of the script,to the stage and then on to the screen, in collaboration with Director, Spike Lee; is a testament of true creative genius and commitment to your craft. www.pbs.org /hueypnewton/revolution/revolution_feedback.html   (3455 words)

Please welcome our newest Moderator, Gary Smith - 1911Forum Speaker, The Second Amendment is not for killing ducks and leaving Huey and Dewey and Louie without an aunt and uncle. Gary is also a veteran of the US Armed Forces who served as a combat infantryman followed by stateside MP duty. Gary has been doing marketing and managing at Caspian Arms since 1985. www.1911forum.com /forums/showthread.php?t=9065   (318 words)

UC Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Black Panther Party Huey Newton is acquitted of of charges of murdering Kathleen Smith, 17, an alleged prostitute. Huey Newton urges all African Americans, poor people and political progressives to back Representative Shirley Chisholm for Democratic presidential nomination; Newton contends that the BPP is "putting down the gun" to work within the system to advance black community. Huey Newton responds to a citizen's complaint that the Oakland police department entered a neighborhood home without a warrant. www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/pacificapanthers.html   (318 words)

Review: Huey P. Newton: The Black Panther as a One-Man Show Screened at Acapulco Black Film Festival 2001,"A Huey P. Newton Story" will also be shown on PBS and on the African American Heritage Network. He becomes a Black Panther around-the-way brother, the youngest of seven children of a minister, the one who was a slow learner, the one who hated to be teased with chants of "Baby Huey." It is in this home-spun style that Newton's panther pedigree seems natural rather than radical. This version of Smith's performance also downplays the original play's emphasis on Newton as a drug user. www.seeingblack.com /x062101/huey_newton.shtml   (318 words)

R&B, Soul, Doo-Wop -  Huey "Piano" Smith -> The Sweet Inspirations Smith's music is infused with good humor and fun on such titles as Sassy Sara/ Somebody Told It/ Psycho/ Behind The Wheel/ Snag A Tooth Jeannie and others. The music was in the same vein as his Ace sides with rolling New Orleans piano, call and response vocals from the Clowns, featuring the lead of Gerri Hall or Curley Moore and solid backup from the rest of the band. Although his singles never went anywhere Melvin continued working with various groups through the early 80s when he gave up on music and went to work for the post office. www.rootsandrhythm.com /roots/RANDB-DOOWOP/randb_s2.htm   (318 words)

KILGOROUND Snuffy was raised in Kilgore and attended Huey School, a small, frame building with sliding partitions inside to divide the classrooms. And she was speaking about her husband of 60 years, Eugene “Snuffy” Smith. Snuffy never did like to shop and usually he would just stand over to one side and watch. www.kilgorenewsherald.com /news/2005/0831/Front_Page/007.html   (673 words)

FAQ: IRON MAIDEN Frequently Asked Questions, part 1/2 (monthly post) When Adrian Smith tried out, all he had to do was apparently play the song "Wrathchild", down a pint of beer in like 5 seconds, and play soccer halfway decent with the guys. "Wrathchild" was Adrian Smith's audition piece, and I guess he must have done such a great job with it that they decided to stick that onto the next single. * "Gangland", written by Clive Burr and Adrian Smith, is a bit jazz influenced, with the drum intro written by Clive (of course). www.faqs.org /faqs/music/iron-maiden-faq/part1   (673 words)

A Huey P. Newton Story - Press Office PBS Lee and Smith bring to life Newton's history, philosophies and flavor in A Huey P. Newton Story, presented on PBS by KQED San Francisco on Wednesday, February 13 at 9 p.m. San Francisco, California - Actor and writer Roger Guenveur Smith has adapted his Obie Award-winning solo performance of A Huey P. Newton Story into an innovative film for television directed by long-time colleague and Oscar-nominee Spike Lee. Smith's stream-of-consciousness monologue is inspired by the writings and interviews of Newton, the late co-founder of the Black Panther Party of Self-Defense. www.pbs.org /hueypnewton/about/about_press.html   (871 words)

African American Review: A Huey P. Newton Story. - theater reviews Roger Smith's portrayal of Newton's tormented psyche is performed in the style of a ritualistic dance of death, reaching from the sublime to the grotesque of Newton's inner spirit. That was the Huey P. Newton of my youth, the mythological Newton--he is the one I chose to embrace in the recesses of my memory, not Huey P. Newton the "crack head," fatally shot in August 1989 while trying to "cop a rock" to ease his pain. To bear witness to these truths, in the case of A Huey P. Newton Story, is a moving theatrical experience that is poetry and pathos, sublime and grotesque. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n4_v31/ai_20425721   (1042 words)

A Huey P. Newton Story (2001): Roger Guenveur Smith - PopMatters Television Review Huey P. Newton was born in 1942, the seventh son of a Louisiana sharecropper. Huey P. Newton was a freedom fighter, the co-founder, with Bobby Seale, of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, in Oakland during the 1960s. His Newton is a bundle of nerves and justified paranoia, a feeling enhanced by Lee's prowling, circling, and sharply angled camera shots. www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/h/huey-p-newton.html   (891 words)

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