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	Film Preservation Study: Los Angeles Public Hearing, February 1993 - National Film Preservation Board (Library of ...
		The first great era of film preservation involved duplication of physical materials that were often the property of the archives and frequently the films being preserved were in the public domain, such as silent films, whose copyright had expired.
		We have a film library and study center which is open to the public and is used extensively also by the students and faculty of the University of California.
		Those films hold up very well and on a comparative basis, if you went down through all the physical characteristics the films are put through, there is no doubt that polyester based material is far superior to both nitrate and safety triacetate films in its characteristics and in its expected longevity.
	www.loc.gov /film/hrng93la.html (20176 words)

	Black Film Center/Archive Film Holdings: "M"
		Mahogany (1975) - The story of a poor fl girl from Chicago who becomes a top international fashion model only to give it up for an honest fl politician (Billy Dee Williams), for "success is nothing without someone you love to share it with you." Diana Ross received an Oscar nomination for costume design.
		Filmed on locations ranging from New York to Egypt, the film follows Malcolm through the criminal activities of his early years to his rise within and his break with the Nation of Islam.
		Originally two films shot in 1976 and 1978, this version was released on home video in 1985 and includes both films.
	www.indiana.edu /~bfca/collection/films/films_M.html (3605 words)

	Mahogany Movie -The 70s Rewind «
		Mahogany recooperates from the almost fatal car accident in the mansion of multi-millionaire Christian Rosetti (Jean-Pierre Aumont), who is completely enamored with her public image.
		Mahogany agrees, but soon her propriety takes over and she realizes that she will not sacrifice her own morals simply to stay suspended in stardom.
		While filming the 1975 film Mahogany in Rome, director Berry Gordy kept pushing a pregnant Diana for take after take, but she had had enough and slapped Berry so hard his glasses flew across the room, stormed into her trailer with assistants in tow, and jumped on the next flight to Los Angeles.
	70s.fast-rewind.com /mahogany.htm (1977 words)

	Anthony Perkins
		The 1968 film which has gone on to achieve cult status, cast Perkins as a disturbed young man recently released from an institution where he was sent after killing his aunt.
		Since that John Carpenter film was often compared to Psycho, it was assumed that Hitchcock’s masterpiece was the granddaddy of the gratuitously violent genre.
		Those critics who did not consider a sequel to a masterpiece a blasphemous act were kind to the film, and it sold enough tickets to nab a place among the 10 biggest grossing films of the year.
	www.angelfire.com /oh2/writer/anthonyperkins.html (2949 words)

	Biographies: Latter-day Saint and/or Utah Film Personalities: E
		The film is described thus: "A man who dreams of his vanishing family, uncovers the truth about its meaning." The film was later shown at the 2003 Utah Short Film and Video Festival.
		Film editor of the award-winning short films "Daybreak" (2000) and "Roots and Wings" (2002), both of which were directed by BYU film student Christian Vuissa.
		While she was a BYU film student she was one of two producers (along with Doug Heder) of the short student film "Funky Town" (2000), directed by Matthew Janzen.
	www.ldsfilm.com /bio/bioE.html (5935 words)

	Commentaries: Ten Black Films Worth Watching - Christianity Today Movies
		This film boldly examines the plight of the fl working class family in a moving and realistic fashion, with strong and memorable performances from an extraordinary cast.
		Here is a film that boldly tackles the idiosyncrasies of family life, told through the perspective of a fl family.
		Mahogany is the film that made Billie Dee Williams the heartthrob of fl women everywhere.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/commentaries/tenblackfilms.html (1322 words)

	TIME.com: Black-and-Tan Fantasy -- Oct. 27, 1975 -- Page 1
		Movies as frantically bad as Mahogany can be enjoyed on at least one level: the spectacle of a lot of people making fools of themselves.
		The film marks the directorial debut of Berry Gordy, the Motown Records whiz, who has slapped scenes together as if he were laying down tracks for an album: one fast, one slow, one happy, one sad, one up, one down.
		The movie comes down hard on the notion of its heroine's overweening ambition and demonstrates that a good girl has no time for all those fancy European airs when she could be back in the ghetto, helping her man (the agreeable Billy Dee Williams) win political office.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,913594,00.html (667 words)

	Obituary: Beah Richards \| News \| Guardian Unlimited Film
		When the British director Philip Leacock filmed the play in 1959, she reprised the role, thus escaping the typecasting that might have followed her screen debut as a maid in The Mugger (1958).
		Although the film is sometimes criticised as ponderous and simplistic today, its theme of interracial marriage between a young fl doctor and the daughter of seemingly liberal white parents provoked controversy and interest in 1967, and Richards' success as the supportive Mrs Prentice gained her considerable attention.
		Poitier was to be the first of many screen sons: she later mothered James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope (1970), Danny Glover in And the Children Shall Weep (1984) and Eriq La Salle as the irascible Dr Benton in ER.
	film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Guardian/0,4029,387741,00.html (805 words)

	Mahogany (1975 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mahogany is a 1975 feature film, produced by Motown Productions and released to theaters by Paramount Pictures.
		The film was almost uniformly panned by critics upon its release, although audience attendance was acceptable.
		The film includes a Ross-sung theme song, “Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To),” which became a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahogany_(1975_film) (219 words)

	Roxbury Film Festival: Press Room
		Jamie’s film work was highlighted when the film five deep breaths, directed by Seith Mann, featured him in the lead role of Banny.
		His new film, Constellation, winner of the audience award at the 2005 Urban World Film Festival and Denver Pan African Film Festival, chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous past marked by an unrequited interracial love affair.
		The film explores the way in which the family patriarch must confront his demons amidst the changing racial fabric of society and his own family.
	www.roxburyfilmfestival.org /2005Guest_bios.htm (1863 words)

	Review: Mahogany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		You can guess what you're in for from the opening scene, when top designer Ross receives a standing ovation from the fashion press (!)--for a parade of dresses that are kimonos trimmed with lit neon tubes.
		Early on, Ross is happy so she dons a rainbow-hued gown (of her own design, natch) and dances among bare white department store mannequins; later, Ross is sad, so at a Roman orgy she drips hot white candle wax onto her tawny bare skin.
		This film (with a line of dialogue that became instant kitsch back in '75: "Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with") was the beginning of the end of Ross's brief movie career (The Wiz finished her off).
	movieline.standard8media.com /reviews/mahogany.shtml (292 words)

	Do the Right Thing: Academy Treatment of Black's in Film
		Television and film saw new stars and fresh stories that reflected African American culture, the issue of racism as a current problem was explored in greater detail.
		The controversial film, based on the book by Alice Walker, and directed by Steven Spielberg, was popular with audiences, going on to win big box office, even beating the Best Picture winner, Out of Africa, but it also lost out in all the categories it was nominated in.
		The film looked at a relationship between an elderly Jewish woman and her fl driver in the south.
	www.angelfire.com /film/robbed/doright.htm (936 words)

	Movie Info for Unzipped on MSN Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is perhaps the best film to date about the fashion industry, showing it through the offbeat, campy eyes of Mizrahi and his mother, who was always sure of his genius.
		The fashion show at the finale of the film is a treat, as Mizrahi succeeds in pleasing the crowd and saving his career and his sanity.
		The film is bitchy, irreverent and witty fun and a delightful look at how the creative process must also deal with economic reality.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=86284 (193 words)

	repertory film
		Mahogany (1975, U.S., 110 min.) Diana Ross plays a young fashion designer working her way to the top and Billy Dee Williams is her leading man. Directed by Berry Gordy.
		SPACE 1026 1026 Arch St., www.peripheralproduce.com Lucky Bum Film Tour A collection of short films and "film-based installations" from a couple of Portland, Ore., artist/filmmakers.
		VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, 610-519-4750, www.culturalfilms.villanova.edu You Can Count on Me (2000, U.S., 111 min.) In this quiet but memorable film, Laura Linney was nominated for an Academy Award for her stunning performance as a single mother whose wayward brother (Mark Ruffalo) comes for her support.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/2002-09-26/repfilm.shtml (837 words)

	Paris Theater Ticket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mahogany (1975 film) - Mahogany is a 1975 feature film, directed by Berry Gordy, produced by Motown Productions and released to theaters by Paramount Pictures.
		As did prominent avant-gardists such Broadway musicals from the University of deep cultural study; looking at the implications of the Monolog; Medieval and photos of its sources; and theater.
		When his indictment against a foreword by a shining example of the nature of the first operas on the best cowboy hat and spoofing Italian Opera since Antoinette Giry, the quickest ways theatre with the tragic death of the right audio and film stars.
	www.go2opera.com /paristheaterticket.html (576 words)

	Cool Cinema Trash.com: Mahogany (1975)
		While filming a commercial, Mahogany petulantly decides to wear one of her own ridiculous designs instead of the approved wardrobe.
		Laughed at by the glitterati, Mahogany is about to make her humiliated exit when Christian Rosetti (Jean-Pierre Aumont) comes to her rescue.
		When Mahogany was released during the height of the feminist movement in the 1970's, the ending ruffled a few feathers.
	www.coolcinematrash.com /movies/mahogany.htm (1853 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Film Listings
		Its title translates as "Right Now" — and this is precisely the attitude the film’s heroine (Le Besco) adopts toward life and love, although the setting is 1975, and Jacquot’s technique hearkens back toward the French New Wave.
		Shot in jittery fl-and-white 16mm, the film’s on-the-fly aesthetic captures the shiftlessness of bourgeois youth, when anything is possible and accepting a drink from the wrong stranger (or is it the right one?) can transform a person from a bored art student skipping class to an international fugitive.
		Yet the film isn’t exactly a thriller, despite a couple of curveballs in the story; rather, Jacquot studies Lili as the emotional center of a moral drama about desire, abandonment, grief, and the turning points in a person’s life.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:292207 (675 words)

	Mahogany (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mahogany (color), a colored inspired by the stained wood.
		Mahogany (1975 film), a Motown film, directed by Berry Gordy and starring Diana Ross.
		The Mahogany email client, a mail user agent that uses wxWidgets and is built around the IMAP protocol, as opposed to POP3.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahogany_(disambiguation) (141 words)

	Kevan Hall Fall 2006: Refined & Luxe, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios (Los Angeles Fashion Week) Fall ...
		The very good and able designer also continues to show just how red carpet ready his collections are showing such classy, sexy, sophisticated and simply wonderful evening gowns and cocktail dresses not forgetting his ability with some very refined and luxe daywear.
		Making it quite difficult to choose a favorite among this very luscious collection, standouts include the “Mahogany” lizard sequin/crepe cut-out gown, alabaster draped front camisole over alabaster beaded skirt, the topaz charmeuse “Tracy” gown with tigers eye beaded straps and his alabaster beaded tulle cascade gown.
		Diana Ross in her role as Tracey in Mahogany proud, managing to dress her as a very modern woman full of self-confidence and an impeccable personal sense of style.
	www.fashionwindows.com /news/kevan_hall/F061.asp (304 words)

	www.myspace.com/frankmarinoandmahoganyrush
		As a young person doing far too much acid, he couldn't really understand when it finally caught up with him and gave him such an incredibly vivid experience that was so overwhelming, that it landed him in the hospital.
		The artwork on the albums, Child of the Novelty and Strange Universe are an artist's rendition of my trip as told by me to the artist, Ivan Schwartz, who has since passed away".
		Mahogany Rush Live was my biggest influence as a young guitar player.
	www.myspace.com /frankmarinoandmahoganyrush (1558 words)

	Amazon.com: Mahogany: Music: Diana Ross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Michael Masser who, two years prior to this set, was responsible for the classic "Touch Me In the Morning" delivered his first soundtrack and, given his proclivity for eccentrism and overblown grand-style balladry, was the perfect match for the soundtrack and its vision.
		"Mahogany", a bittersweet story that rejoices and basks in the excesses of fame and fashion that at the same time points to its tragic aspects in its lead character's isolation, is told elegantly through the device of projection in "Do You Know Where You're Going To?".
		Things end with the "Mahogany Suite" which is essentially a different, more spacious arrangement of the "Mahogany Theme" (Do You Know Where You're Going To) which effectively brings it to a sweeping dramatic finish.
	www.amazon.com /Mahogany-Diana-Ross/dp/B00004TRSG (1500 words)

	MTV Movie News \| Rewind: 'The Devil Wears Prada' — A Bold Addition To The Fashion-Film Canon
		Considering how inexorably fashion and film are connected, you'd think there would be more movies about the world of high couture.
		"Mahogany" (1975) Diana Ross plays Tracy, a Chicago girl whose one dream is to get out of the ghetto and make it as a top fashion designer.
		Her genius takes her through fashion school and to the top of the design world, despite being beset by all manner of creeps and users out to bring her down.
	www.mtv.com /movies/news/articles/1535114/06262006/story.jhtml (1036 words)

	CMT.com : Diana Ross : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The soundtrack went to number one, and Ross was nominated for an Academy Award.
		Ross' third film role came in The Wiz (October 1978).
		The Boss (May 1979) was a gold-selling album, followed by the platinum-selling Diana (May 1980) (the second of her solo albums with that name, though the other, a 1971 TV soundtrack, had an exclamation mark).
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/ross_diana/bio.jhtml (606 words)

	Black Film Resarch Online
		Chicago has continued to be an important site for the production of films with Black casts and/or by Black filmmakers, including independent and Hollywood productions, features and documentaries.
		Chicago has also continued to be the home of a large and diverse Black film audience and a thriving moviegoing culture.
		Chicago is home of one of the first Black-owned theaters to show moving pictures (the Pekin at 27 th and State Streets); boasts one of the first elaborate movie “palaces” built specifically for Black audiences (Baliban and Katz’s Regal Theater at 47th and South Parkway, now Martin Luther King, Jr.
	blackfilm.uchicago.edu /black_film_chicago/history2.shtml (247 words)

	Amazon.com: Mahogany: Video: Diana Ross,Billy Dee Williams,Anthony Perkins,Jean-Pierre Aumont,Beah Richards,Nina ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There is no need to film a bio on Miss Ross, anyone who is curious about the Diana Ross persona, her looks and that sparkling, enthusiastic performance energy should be able to feast on all of the above (and quite abit more)in this very simple film that is period perfect, Mahogany.
		I'd only seen it one other time previously, which isn't odd considering that it was released in 1975--one year before I was born--although I fell in love with it during that one viewing and have been anxiously awaiting it to come out on DVD--commercials every six or seven minutes can ruin any movie.
		Both are referred to as their one-word monickers throughout the film.
	www.amazon.com /Mahogany-Diana-Ross/dp/6300216772 (1973 words)

	Unusual Gifts : Mahogany
		Made in 1975, Mahogany is mired in tedious melodrama that is not enhanced by a predictable and sexist ending.
		Diana Ross, a poverty-stricken young woman, pulls herself up by her camisole straps until she is at the top of the fashion world.
		"Mahogany" is a must for Diana Ross fans.
	www.theunusualgifts.com /mahogany_6300216772.html (246 words)

	USC Events Calendar - Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
		Hamilton, formerly of ABC’s “The Practice,” spent the last years of Richards' life documenting her struggles and triumphs, resulting in an emotional testimonial of the actress, teacher, poet and social activist who viewed art as a social vehicle for change.
		Richards (pictured) was a star of both television and film.
		Born in 1920 in Vicksburg, Miss., Richards appeared in films like “In the Heat of the Night” (1967), “The Great White Hope” (1970), “Mahogany” (1975), “Drugstore Cowboy” (1989) and “Beloved” (1998).
	www.usc.edu /calendar/events/20491.html (245 words)

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