Pioneering filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles has died
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nme.comSweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song and comedy Watermelon Man, in which a white, racist man wakes up one morning to find that he’s a Black man.Hollywood admirers of the filmmaker have taken to social media to pay their respects.“He made the most of every second, of EVERY single damn frame and admittedly, while the last time I spent any time with him was MANY years ago, it was a night in which he absolutely danced his face off.
The man just absolutely LIVED,” tweeted Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk director Barry Jenkins.Ava DuVernay wrote: “‘You have to not let yourself believe you can’t.
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