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Max Julien
Maxwell Julien Banks (July 12, 1933 – January 1, 2022), better known by his stage name Max Julien, was an American actor, sculptor, and clothes designer best known for his role as Goldie in the 1973 blaxploitation film ''The Mack''. Early life Julien was born in Washington, DC on July 12, 1933. He became a member of Xi chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi at Howard University on December 4, 1954. Career He began his career on the stage on New York City's Off-Broadway circuit including roles in Joseph Papp's ''Shakespeare-In-The-Park''. Moving westward to Hollywood, he landed co-starring roles with Jack Nicholson in '' Psych-Out'' and Candice Bergen in Columbia's box-office hit film '' Getting Straight''. While spending time in Rome, Italy, he wrote and directed a documentary called ''Trestevre'', then wrote the screenplay for, and subsequently co-produced, Warner Brothers's blaxploitation classic ''Cleopatra Jones,'' which starred actress Tamara Dobson in the title role as a narcotics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleopatra Jones
''Cleopatra Jones'' is a 1973 American blaxploitation film directed by Jack Starrett. Tamara Dobson stars as an undercover government agent who uses the day job of supermodel as her cover and an excuse to travel to exotic places. Bernie Casey, Shelley Winters and Antonio Fargas also feature. The film has been described as being primarily an action film, but also partially a comedy with a spoof tone. It was followed by the sequel ''Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold'', released in 1975. Plot Cleopatra "Cleo" Jones is an undercover special agent for the United States government. Overseas modeling is only a cover for her real job: Cleo is a James Bond-like heroine with power and influence. She drives a silver and black '73 Corvette Stingray (equipped with automatic weapons), and has martial arts ability. She also remains loyal to her drug-ravaged community and her lover, Reuben Master, who runs B&S House (a community home for recovering drug addicts). Cleo is overseeing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Name Of The Game (TV Series)
''The Name of the Game'' is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack, which aired from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes each. The show was a wheel series, setting the stage for '' The Bold Ones'' and '' The NBC Mystery Movie'' in the 1970s. The program had the largest budget of any television series at that time. Plot The series was based on the 1966 television movie '' Fame Is the Name of the Game'', which was directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starred Tony Franciosa. ''The Name of the Game'' rotated among three characters working at Howard Publications, a large magazine publishing company—Jeffrey "Jeff" Dillon (Franciosa), a crusading reporter with ''People'' magazine (not to be confused with the real-life periodical that debuted in 1974); Glenn Howard ( Gene Barry, taking over for George Macready, who had originated the role in the earlier film), the sophisticated, well-connected publisher; and Daniel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Programs Broadcast By CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. (CBS) is an American commercial broadcasting television network that launched in 1941. It is owned by the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the " Big Four" television networks. Below is a list of programs currently broadcast on the network. Current programming Drama Comedy Unscripted Docuseries Game shows Reality Variety Soap operas Co-productions Awards shows News programming Film presentations *''CBS Sunday Movie'' (1989–2006, 2007–2015; 2020) Saturday mornings Specials *'' The Story of Santa Claus'' (1996) *'' Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire'' (2002) Sports programming *''NFL on CBS'' (1956) ** AFC games (and inter-conference games when the AFC team is the road team) **The AFC Championship Game **The Super Bowl (every four years) ** The NFL Today (1961) *'' PGA Tour on CBS'' (1970) **Masters Tournament (shared with ESPN) **PGA Championship (shared with ESPN) **PGA Tour (shared with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uptight (film)
''Uptight'' (also known as ''Up Tight!'') is a 1968 American drama film directed by Jules Dassin. It was intended as an updated version of John Ford's 1935 film '' The Informer'', based on the book of the same name by Liam O'Flaherty, but the setting was transposed from Dublin to Cleveland. The soundtrack was performed by Booker T. & the MG's. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. is used as a backdrop for the film's fictional narrative. Plot In Cleveland, Ohio, at the time of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters riot in the streets. Johnny Wells, a charismatic black revolutionary, leads a group of black men on a mission to steal guns from a warehouse as preparation for violent racial conflict. Johnny's best friend Tank, who formerly worked at the steel mill with several of the men, is supposed to help with the robbery, but when the group goes to his house, they find him drunk and watching the television coverage of King's funeral. Tank is a middle-age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Savage Seven
''The Savage Seven'' is a 1968 outlaw biker exploitation film directed by Richard Rush, who had directed the previous year's '' Hells Angels on Wheels''. Rush agreed to direct ''The Savage Seven'' in exchange for the opportunity to make the psychedelic film '' Psych-Out''. Penny Marshall appears in one of her earliest screen roles. Plot Kisum, the leader of a motorcycle gang, is in love with waitress Marcia Little Hawk. Her brother Johnnie Little Hawk, the leader of a group of Indians, is upset about the romance. The bikers and Indians join forces but a scheme by crooked businessmen causes them to become adversaries. Cast Reception In a contemporary review for ''The New York Times'', critic Richard F. Shepard wrote: "The movie is one continuous uproar of unmuffled motors and head-cracking and emphasized cruelty from one and to another. It is colorful and technically competent but completely cheap in its primitive, uninquiring, kick'-em-in-the-groin sensationalism, too serio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Klansman
''The Black Klansman'', originally released in 1966 under the name ''I Crossed the Color Line'', is a low-budget feature film directed by Ted V. Mikels and starring Richard Gilden, Rima Kutner, Harry Lovejoy, Max Julien, Jakie Deslonde, and James McEachin. Plot During the civil rights movement, a light-skinned African-American man, Jerry Ellworth (Richard Gilden, a white actor), is a Los Angeles jazz musician with a white girlfriend, Andrea (Rima Kutner). Meanwhile, in a Turnersville, Alabama diner, a young black man, Delbert Madison (Kirk Kirksey), attempts to exercise his civil rights, which has just passed at the federal level, by sitting at a local diner, where he is observed by members of the Ku Klux Klan, including Exalted Cyclops Rook (Harry Lovejoy). By night and in Klan robes, they shoot Delbert and firebomb a church, killing Jerry's daughter by his deceased wife. By way of revenge, Jerry moves to Alabama to infiltrate the group responsible for his daughter's death. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie And Clyde (film)
''Bonnie and Clyde'' is a 1967 American biographical film, biographical crime film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as Bonnie and Clyde, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, outlaws and romantic partners in the Great Depression-era American South. The cast also features Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons. The screenplay was written by David Newman (screenwriter), David Newman and Robert Benton (with uncredited contributions by Beatty and Robert Towne); Beatty also produced the film. The film was released in the United States by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts on August 13, 1967. Initial critical reception was mixed, but later swung positive, and the film became a significant commercial success, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of 1967. It was nominated for 10 Academy Awards including for Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture, winning Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress (for Estelle Parsons) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomasine & Bushrod
''Thomasine & Bushrod'' is a 1974 Western film directed by Gordon Parks Jr., written by and starring Max Julien and Vonetta McGee and released by Columbia Pictures. The title song was written by Arthur Lee and performed by his band Love. Vonetta McGee plays Thomasine and Max Julien plays Bushrod in a film intended as a counterpart to the 1967 film ''Bonnie and Clyde''. Thomasine and Bushrod go on a crime spree through the American south between 1911 and 1915. Plot In Texas in 1911, Thomasine knocks out a man who attempted to force himself on her sexually without paying for her prostitution services. She is revealed to actually be a bounty hunter who used her attractiveness to lure in her latest, unsuspecting target. The marshal pays her the bounty, but also threatens her because he does not care for her self-confident attitude. While at the jail she sees a wanted poster of her former boyfriend, Bushrod. She tracks him down and they resume their relationship. Bushrod kills a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One On One (American TV Series)
''One on One'' is an American sitcom created by Eunetta T. Boone and was aired on UPN from September 3, 2001, to May 15, 2006. The series stars Flex Alexander as a single sportscaster, who becomes a full-time father when his ex-wife decides to accept a job out of the country and his teenage daughter Breanna (Kyla Pratt) moves in with him. The series was set in Baltimore for the first four seasons, before changing settings to Los Angeles for the final season. The series was a joint production of the Greenblatt/Janollari Studio and Daddy's Girl Productions in association with Paramount Network Television. The series featured guest appearances from numerous celebrities and athletes, including Lil' Zane, Chris Brown, Lil' Romeo, Eve, Lloyd, Floetry, Angie Stone, Mario, Omarion, Brandy, Solange Knowles, Nina Sky, Marques Houston, Smokey Robinson, Kim Fields, Avant, Jennifer Freeman, Nate Dogg, Bobby V, Claudia Jordan, Ruben Studdard, and Lisa Leslie. The show was cancelled mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Protectors
''The Protectors'' is a British action thriller television series created by Gerry Anderson. It starred Robert Vaughn as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt as Paul Buchet. It was Anderson's second television series to exclusively use live actors as opposed to marionettes following ''UFO'', and his second to be firmly set in contemporary times post ''The Secret Service''. It was also the only Gerry Anderson–produced television series that was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction elements, ''The Protectors'' became one of Anderson's most popular productions, easily winning a renewal for a second series. A third series was in the planning stages when the show's major sponsor, Brut, ended its funding which forced the series' cancellation. ''The Protectors'' was first broadcast in 1972 and 1973, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mod Squad
''The Mod Squad'' is an American crime drama series, originally broadcast for five seasons on ABC from September 24, 1968, to March 1, 1973. It starred Michael Cole as Peter "Pete" Cochran, Clarence Williams III as Lincoln "Linc" Hayes, Peggy Lipton as Julie Barnes, and Tige Andrews as Captain Adam Greer. The executive producers of the series were Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas. The counterculture police series earned six Emmy Award nominations, four Golden Globe nominations plus one win for Peggy Lipton, one Directors Guild of America Award, and four Logies. In 1970, the second-season episode, "In This Corner . . . Sol Alpert," script by Rita Lakin and Harve Bennett, was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar Award in the category of Best Mystery Teleplay, losing to the TV-Movie '' Daughter of the Mind''. In 1997, a 1970 episode "Mother of Sorrow" was ranked #95 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. Plot They were The Mod Squad (" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
