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...groundbreaking, and even more controversial, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Turned down by every major studio including Columbia...Melvin Van Peebles' landmark 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," including Melvin's struggles to raise money to...

Renegade pimp Sweetback hits the road after hacking up two corrupt police officers who were busying themselves with brutally beating up a young black man.

...wrote, produced, directed and starred in Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, an X-rated cheapie that hit box-office pay dirt...writing and starring -- quite credibly -- as Melvin in Baadasssss! The son doesn't flinch from his dad's faults, right...

The cinema is just one medium in which the multi-talented Melvin Van Peebles has distinguished himself. After serving a stint in the US Air Force, he lived in Mexico where he worked as a portrait…

Mario Van Peebles may be too handsome for his own good. His eyes sparkle amid high cheekboned, delicate features that showcase his multicultural lineage. Looking at what could almost be a parody of a…

As the creator of the long-running animated TV series “The Simpsons” (Fox, 1989- ), as well as the equally venerable weekly comic strip “Life in Hell,” cartoonist Matt Groening watched his creations…

The multi-talented James L Brooks has proven to be a force in television and films since the late 1960s. The Brooklyn-born, New Jersey-raised triple threat (writer-producer-director) moved to L.A. in…