A Weekly Guide to African-American Culture
March 16-22, 1992 • (212) 627-5241• Vol. I, No. 40 • 51.00
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wight Smith sees everything, even pain and pleasure, in D film terms. "I had a Baaaddd toothache about a month ago," Smith says. "The dentist told me I needed a root canal. I asked him how much that'd cost. He said $250. That's 2 1/2 rolls of film! I guess you know what I told him." Dwight Smith winces, then tries to dismiss the pain. "It's okay, really ... really ... it's okay." Smith, who recently earned his masters in film from NYU and the New School for Social Research, con tinues. "I recently turned dovm an offer to take a fourteen-day Caribbean cruise for £1100. An eleven minute roll of film costs about $100, that's eleven rolls of film! That's all the film I need to shoot my short,fump Shock! Smith's last film, Samson and Delilah, a dance and rap musical based loosely on the biblical story, was the Gold Award winner in the 1991Houston International Film Festival. Dwight was not always a film enthusiast. The stage was his first love. After performing stand-up comedy and skits in high school, he enrolled at A&T University where he decided to perform for love and major in electronics. It was in the A&T Drama Club that Dwight Smith met Arnold Pinnix and the two developed a collaboration that has spawned stage and film work that some consider classic. To date, the most celebrated Pinnix/Smith project has been the award-winning film short, The Adventures of Pigman and Possum, a finalist in Sony's Lnnovator competition. Exaggerating their own physicalities to near caricature proportions, Pinnix is the selfish, greedy, sloppy Pigman and Dwight plays the selfless Possum who's gangly and narcoleptic (that means he falls asleep anytime and anywhere). Pigman and Possum are two independent, Harlem-based, garbage collectors thrust into the superhero arena when they help fight neighborhood crime. Playing the sleepy Possum was not at all difficult for Smith. He was "working full-time, attending school part-time, helping with the productions of seven other student films in addi tion to my own, getting 3 to 4 hours of sleep a night for weeks, falling asleep in the editing room in the wee hours when most sane people were comfortably bedded down at home. Sometimes I wondered if all this was worth it? Then at a showing at the New School, everyone in the auditorium gave us a standing ovation while the credits rolled. I knew then that there was nothing else more important that I could've been doing." Humble beginnings along with hard work and an empha sis on education can give form to sublime aspirations-weaving your fondest dreams into reality. Dauntless persistence pays too. And it doesn't hurt to have a smart, ambitious mother and a father who's a disciplinarian. "She was a genius," Dwight Smith says of his mother. "She devoured whole books in mere hours, for real! She graduated from high school at the age of fourteen. Her father made her wait a year before entering college because he thought she was too young .... My father was a stickler for education and a hard worker who got us working when we were very young with light house chores like plumbing, roofing and chain sawing trees." Dwight Smith decided to make his living as an entertainer when he moved to New York City shortly after graduation from A&T. He has performed in numerous comedy shows including his own one-hour cable television special, and he made a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live while in college. But he gave up all this early success up to pursue film. "When you do stand-up," he explained. "You're out there all alone, naked, vul nerable. Like a dart board just waiting to be stabbed! Like a mink at a fur show! Like a pretty little bunny at a chicken hawk meet!" And he quickly got tired of the auditioning process. It wasn't long before he was bored with "being sent out for belly but ton cleaner commercials, silicon muscle implant ads, and all kinds of stuff. I was spending all this time pursuing jobs I just really didn't care about. Then I'd go to bad movies and say, 'I can do THAT!' I had never heard of film schools or degrees in filmmaking before Spike Lee. The revelation that film school was possible plus my background of doing for self instead of working the circuit of
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2-ROUTES, A Weekly Guide to African-American Culture, March 16-22, 1992 O.P.P. (Other People's Projects) led me to pursue a Masters and now a career in filmmaking. Filmmaking is an expensive endeavor as a career or hobby. If you're not well-known but have numerous awards, finan cial backers are still skeptical and scarce. At least that's been Dwight's experience. "In the beginning, my whole focus was on creating films regardless of the cost. I used credit cards in lieu of cash, but I soon learned I CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS!!! I was mak ing films faster than I could pay for them. I'm still paying for my last two films, right now-YEARS LATER! So I surrendered part of my creative focus to the necessary evil of the bottom line. I will devote nearly all of my time and energy to film, but I'll try to use cash only, no charges." Trying to drum up backers while waiting for verdicts from grant and fellowship appli cations so he can turn The Adventures of Pigman and Possum into a feature length film, Dwight Smith continues to hone his exceptional talents. He's working on smaller projects and helping to weave others' Big Time film and video dreams into reality. What's the common thread running through the fabric of the many tales he spins? "Laughter," Dwight Smith says. "I like to create things that are meaningful and funny because people tend to remember what makes them laugh. I enjoy making people laugh even at the expense of making a clown of myself. One of my most satisfying compliments was when a girl told me she wasn't going to come to one of my shows because she was feeling bad, but she was glad she came anyway. I made her laugh and she felt better. Laughter can heal." An early April screening of Dwight Smith's many film shorts is in the works. For more information, call (212) 617-1748.
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4-ROUTES, A Weekly Guide to African-American Culture, March 16-22, 1992 Copela nd's Emily's Page 4 Southern cuisine Restaurant/Cafe A Harlem institution Southern cuisine performance. 547 W.145th St • 234- Relaxed and informal P.S. 122 • 150 First Ave 2457 1325 5th Ave/110tb & • 691-1605 111th Sts • 996-1212. • Caribe Reviewed in 10/20/91 Tosbiko Akiyoshi Jazz jamaican cuisine issue. Orchestra & Amioa Pleasant and informal. Claudine Myers Group Cash only. Honeysu ckle Mar20, B pm 117 Perry Stl Greenwich Southern cuisine Town Hall • 123 W. St • 255-9191 T rendy 43rd St • 307-7171 507 Columbus Ave 496-8095 •Brooklyn • Tiye Giraud & Amy Rubio Mar 22,3 pm Tiye tells stories of trans formation in f?Crformances Lose weight the safe and easy way... that mix ethmc rhythms. vocal styles and musical and keep the pounds off! genres to recr~>ate and Call or write for free information reinterpret cultural tradi as seen on The Amazing Micro tions. Amy blends the Diet Show "Go it!" exotic with the familiar in Lee Crosby works that draw upon jazz, rock, blues and Third ""',.(. """"''~ World musical idioms. Picn ic House • Prospect MICRO Park • Directions: Walk in at 3rd St and Prospect Park I Vest. Fallow the Park drive to the right and the Picnic House is the first building on the left. • Long Is land • •Queen Latifah Mar 19 ,8 pm Capoeira •G ladys Knight Mar 22,8 pm Supervised Westbury Music Fair • Exit 40 on LIE • 516 Juice Fasts 334-0800 • New Jersey • One on One Training Maya Angelou with Sister Sadie and the Harlem 307 west 12 1 Street Famous Biblettes MUSCLES <2 12> 222-oa1s Mar 22,4 pm East Orange High School • 34 N. \"valnut Street • East Orange GARY L. KING Early Childhood RESTAURANTS Blue Nile Consultant Ethiopian cuisine 103 W. 77th Stl For appointment, Columbus Ave/580-3232 call or fax 018) 398-452b
ROUTES, A Weekly Guide to African-American Culture, March 16-22, 1992-5 Restaurants contmued from Page 5 Perfect Taping Company Jamaican "Hot Pot" Licensed and Bonded Drywall Tapers Small restaurant of 7-8 tables-but has a large reputati?n fo_r good food at bargam pnces. No JOB IS Too SMALL 2260 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Blvd/133rd St • 491-5270 Free Estimates
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6-ROUTES, A Weekly Guide to African-American Culturo, March 16-22, 1992 •Queens • Nakisaki International time Marine Corps. An Restaurant investigation into one Brasserie Creole Cafe Jamaican & Chinese cui recruit's sexual orientation Thursdays, Mariacbie sine reveals that some things arc not subject to military Fridays, Kalewese Takeout Service too Saturdays, Shleu-Shleu authority. Sundays, Skbabshah 138-89 Francis Lewis Atlantic Theater Blvd • Rosedale • {718) 227-02 Linden Blvd • Company • 336 W. 20th Cambria Hts • [718) 341- 527-7355 St • 645-8755 1376/7 Rockaway Fish Haven & From The Mississippi Catering Ser vice Carmichael's Diner & Delta Cocktail Lounge 141·22 Rockaway Blvd • Written by Endesha Ida Southern cuisine So. Ozone Park • (718) Mae Holland, directed by Informal 529-2304 or 3576 jonathan Wilson. Endesha Ida Mae Holland's boldly jazz jam Session inspirational, gutsy and Wed, 7:30·10:30 pm Village Door International cuisine often hilarious autobio 117-08 Guy Brewer Blvd graphical play. It follows • jamaica • (718) 723- Jazz Jam Session nightly her life as she blazes her 6908 163-07 Baisley Blvd • way from rebellious young (718) 276·9616 prostitute to Ph.D. Circle-In-The-Square La Citadelle Restaurant • L ong I sland • Southern & Haitian cui (Downtown) • 159 sine Ch ez Antoine Bleecker St • 254-6330 A family restaurant with French Caribbean cui sine Five Guys Named Moe home delivery service. Previews up to Apr 8 220-24 Linden Blvd • Elegant A musical celebration of Cambria Heights • (718) 590 Sunrise Highway • the songs of Jazz saxo 527-6366 Baldwin • (516) 223· phonist Louis Jordan. 9426 Eugene O'Neill Theatre La Detente • 230 West 49th St • Continental and Nakisaki International 239-6200 Caribbean cui.~ine Restaurant • Sunday Champagne Jamaican & Chinese cui Chain & Late Bus T o Jazz Brunch sine Mecca 11 am-4:00pm Takeout Service too Through Mar 22 Enid Lowe Trio & Gen e 276 Fulton Ave • Hemp Chain: A poignant and Jefferson , sax stead • (516) 292-9200 chilling portrayal of a 16- • Frank Dell, Sun, 6·11 year-old girl chained. Late Bus To Mecca: A lender pm THEATER and humorous story of 23·04 94th St • East two women drawn togeth Elmhurst • [718) 458· The Virgin Molly er by a mutual need for 2172 Mar 14-Apr 12 companionship. Ray Anthony Thomas The judith Anderson Le Moulin Vert stars in a modem miracle Theatre • 422 West 42nd Restaurant comedy set in the peace· St • 873-3767 Caribbean cuisine 215·52 jamaica Ave • Queens Village • (718) 776·4285 SUBSCRIPTION fORM
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ROUTES, A Weekly Guide to African-American Culture, March 16-22, 1992-7 Theatre continued from Henry Street Settlement Page 7 • 466 Grand Street • MUSEUMS & 598-0400 CULTURAL Boesman and Lena CENTERS Through Mar 22 Written by Athol Fugard DANCE •African Improvisation: A story of two South Textiles from the Africans struggling for Feld Ballet Indianapolis Museum shelter, food, love, digni Through Mar 22 of Art ty, and a sense of mean Darren Gibson labeled Through Apr 19 ing in the harsh world of "Up & Coming" by the New Twenty-eight fabrics of apartheid. York Times rich colors and vibrant Manhattan Theatre Club Joyce Theatre • 175 8th patterns showing vari • City Center • 131 West Ave/19th St • 242-0800 ous aspects of improvi 55th St • 581-7907 sation in African textile design. A sound track Before It Hits Home of jazz which has its Through Mar 22 roots in African ART GALLERIES rhythms accompanies The story of a 30-year the exhibit. old jazz musician who Jean-Michel Basquiat returns home with AIDS. Through Mar 7 American Craft Museum Vcrej Baghoomian • 40 West 53rd St • 956- Second Stage Theatre in 3535 association with New Gallery • 555 Broadway York Shakespeare • 941-1410 Festival • 425 Lafayette • Workshops St • 598-7150 Alison Saar: Slow Boat Making a Joyful Noise: Through Apr 18 HowToMakeA The Atlanta Affair A site-sP.ecific installa Shekere Mar 29 tion exploring the nature Mar 17, 6:30-9:30 pm of mvtli. religwn, and Instructor: Madeleine About the Atlanta child ritual in the urban con slayings in the 1970s. Yayodele Nelson text. Ms. Nelson is the The Riant Theater • 161 The Whitney Museum of founder and artistic Hudson St • 4th Fl • 925- American Art • 120 Park 8353 director of Women of Ave • The public the Calabash. A master Sculpture Court shekere player and Buya Africa •Queens• craftsman, Ms. Nelson Thuli Dumakude, South also lectures nation African actress and Le Jardin Culture! Art wide on African musi singer. An autobio Gallery cal instruments and graphical sketch inter Featuring the Oil and calabash arts .. woven in an evening of Acrylic paintings by Caribbean Cultural music and dance. Haitian artists Guy Fleury, Center • 408 W. 58th St Theater Arielle • 432 Savin, Casimir, Valein I, Valein II & Valbrun; • 307-7420 West 42nd St • 967-7079 sculpture by Joseph; black and white prints by E. Caribbean Culture Medea and the Doll Guerrier Through Mar 31 Rudy Gray explores black 225-09 Linden Blvd • An exhibition of paintings parent-child relation Cambria Heights • (718) and photography by West ships. 712-9377 Indian artists in New York The Enchanted • Long Island • Castillo Cultural Theatre Basement • Trinity • 500 Greenwich St • Church • 57th St, bet. 941-1234 9th & lOth Aves • 727- Textiles: The Spirito of 8143 West African Textiles Through April B Lecture Series: Summer Sunslfales of Fiderman Gallery • Axinn New Orleans' Legacy of Night Library • Hofstra African-American Mar 21, 22 & 29, 2 pm University • (516) 463- Culture Mar 21 & 28, 7:30 pm 5672 •Interactions: Life and George C. Wolfe's funny Death in New Orleans and entertaining adapta Mar 23, 6:30pm tions of stories from Ulysses S. Richard, Jr., around the world for fami- Senior Archivist, The 1)' audiences. A collection of folktales told with song, Amistad Research dance and music. Center, Tulane University
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ROUTES, A Weekly Guide to African-American Culture, March 16·22, 1992- 9 Museums & Cultural (continued from Page9 • H ANDBAGS BY CAROLINA K ELLY, O WNER Valerie Capers •AFRICAN-AMERICAN STYLE Mar 16,7 pm P INS BY J ULIA The Schomburg Center for Research in Black • EARRINGS BY T ROCAOERO Culture • 515 Malcolm X • C RYSTAl EARRINGS Blvd al135lh St • 491- - 2200 • D ESIGNER C LOTHES BY: ,. W HITTALL & SHON, • Africa and the STUDIO I . MODI & Diaspora: Selections from the Permanent D OREE 305 East I I Oth Street IB<>twt>en I & 2nd Avenues) Collection AND M UCH MORE! st Through Jun 7 New York. NY I 0029 SIZES 4 TO 26 (2 I 2) 4 I 0-4 I 86 • 860-9749 Nin ety-~ve paintings. examtmng the influence of African art (718) 712-9377 and culture on the art, artists, and culture of the Americas and the Caribbean. Studio Museum of Harlem • 144 W. 125th ~r/f>t ~M~~/..%/~rfhy St • 864-4500 !// • Brooklyn • CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING The New Merengue Through May 3 • PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO • SCULPTURE The migrotion of Caribbean and African • f i LM PROCESSING Americans to Brooklyn is the subject of the 225-09 Linden Boulevard • Cambria Heights, NY 11411 Museum's 29th Grand Lobby project The Brooklyn Museum • 200 Eastern Parkway • (718) 638-5000 • Westchester• OHM~~ Photographic Images of 19th Century African Americans Through May 3 ~ftiQ WORKS These photographs docu 122-05 Guy Brewer Boulevard ment the existence of a suc cessful and prosperous (across from Popeye's) Jamaica, N.Y. class of African-Americans (7 18) 527-5511 in the 19th century. The Hudson River Appointments can be made. but may not be necessary Museum • 511 Warburton Ave • Yonkers • (914) 963-4550 F REE FOR Finzan ALL Mar20-Apr 2 Mavin' Spirits Dance Tho story of two women's Theater F ILM rebellion against the Mar 18, 12:15 pm oppressive conventions of Choreographed by Marlies March '92 Black Film tlieir society. Ycarby , the performance Festival The Public Theater • 425 wW feature excerpts from An extensive list offilms lafayette St • 598-7150 a work in progress called exists. Please call for Buckin The Blues. Blues, Titles and Showtimes. chants. songs and instru Art Gallery of the ACP, Jr. mental journeys evoke State Office Building • movement memories evolving from the 163 W. 125th Stat 7th personal experi- ,_ Ave • 873-5040 ences of tht> - 10-ROUTES. A Weekly Guide to African-American Culture, March 16·22, 1992 Free For All Continued from Page 11 TREAT A fRIEND TO dancers. A WONDERFUL fREE DINNER * AT Continental Insurance Atrium • 180 Maiden The Blue Nile Lane nt Front St • 432- TAADITlONAl EnUOPIAN HOME COOKING 0900 1 03 W. 77th St ot Columbus Ave 580-3232 Body and Soul: The Alvm Ailey American Feast yourself for Dance Theater Exhibit Through May 11 lUNCH- ONlY $6.95 The exhibition documents •01nner lor two. Get the lesser or tho troupe's rich heritage Equivalenl prtced entree lor lree. with a wide-variety of Not valid lor combination platters, rarely seen items gathered lunch or w1th other discounts. from the archives of the Library and the Ailey company. as welles from personal collect ions of for Cliez .9Lntoine mer Ailey dancers and ']1.£1zch {!a,.J,.G£an {!ui!in£ collaborators. Library's Main Gallery • ,., Dpvz ("' 'hum<> 40 Lincoln Center Plaza ~ Cluud"J. <1Vtdntiday CJ~uud
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