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Duke was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, the son of Ethel Louise (née Douglas) and William Henry Duke Sr. [5] [6] He attended Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in Hyde Park [7] and later received his first instruction in the performing arts and in creative writing at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie. [7]
Battledogs; Screenplay by: Shane Van Dyke: Directed by: Alexander Yellen: Starring: Craig Sheffer Dennis Haysbert Ernie Hudson Bill Duke: Theme music composer
Dark Girls is a 2011 documentary film by Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry. It documents colorism within the African American community, a subject still considered taboo by many black Americans. The film contains interviews of African American women describing the role colorism has played in their lives, with notable African Americans including ...
The Killing Floor is a 1984 American made-for-television drama film directed by Bill Duke which highlights the plights of workers fighting to build an interracial labor union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the Chicago race riot of 1919. [1]
A door in the basement leads to a parallel world, and both of a man's counterparts find the grass greener on the other side. Stars George Wendt , Bernadette Birkett and Jeffrey Tambor . Note: CBS Home Video split this installment into two half-hour shows, the first two stories in the first half and the last story in the second.
Stuart Archer Cohen was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1958 and graduated from Walnut Hills High School in 1976. He spent a year hitchhiking around the United States, hopping freight trains and traveling with a circus as a prop man, then attended Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University, where he won the Bennet Cerf Prize for fiction.
Robert Calef (baptized 2 November 1648 – 13 April 1719) [1] was a cloth merchant in colonial Boston.He was the author of More Wonders of the Invisible World, a book composed throughout the mid-1690s denouncing the recent Salem witch trials of 1692–1693 and particularly examining the influential role played by Cotton Mather.
"Don't Get Around Much Anymore" is a jazz standard written by composer Duke Ellington. [1] The song was originally entitled "Never No Lament" and was first recorded by Duke Ellington and his orchestra on May 4, 1940. [2] "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" quickly became a hit after Bob Russell wrote its lyrics in 1942. [3]