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Hallelujah for the Bamboozled Cult of Actor Willie Best (Part Two)

cultfilmalley February 17, 2021 1

*contains spoilers and strong course language My favourite memory of Fetchit is in the movie Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935) where he plays a black Muslim helper to Charlie Chan who smokes a hookah, no doubt containing hashish, and spends time in the back seat of his car with his girlfriend. Is it such a…

Hallelujah for the Bamboozled Cult of Actor Willie Best (Part One)

cultfilmalley February 16, 2021 0

*contains spoilers and strong course language “My show is about racial healing,” says actor Damon Wayons (1960-) in Spike Lee’s (1957-) movie Bamboozled (2000). This film, which was dismissed back when it was first released, is now regarded as some sort of cult film. It hints at the possibility that you can be white on…