Melvin Van Peebles Remembered: David Alan Grier, Barry Jenkins & Ava DuVernay Among Those Paying Tribute To Cinema’s “True Revolutionary”
deadline.comRefresh for updates… Hollywood paid fast and heartfelt tribute to director Melvin Van Peebles today, with news of his death eliciting words of praise for the filmmaker from such industry figures as actor David Alan Grier and directors Barry Jenkins and Ava DuVernay, along with notable musicians and music execs.“We’ve lost another lion,” tweeted the Tony-nominated Grier, who called Van Peebles “the true revolutionary, an artistic gangsta, cultural disrupter who forever changed the game.”Oscar-winning Moonlight director Barry Jenkins wrote that the filmmaker “made the most of every second, of EVERY single damn frame.“Admittedly,” he added, “while the last time I spent any time with him was MANY years ago, it was a night in which he absolutely
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