Last Week's Interestings // 169

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When I Grow Up

Last Week, i had the absolute honor to finally shake hands with the man named Melvin Van Peebles.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center held a screening for his multi-industry-altering film, Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song followed by a proper Q&A.

W-w-w-whut?!

Here's the trailer for How To Eat Your Watermelon In White Company (and Enjoy It), a documentary about Melvin and his offensively prolific & varied creative output:

Im struggling to not write EVERYTHING I KNOW about this man & his work [ it's just good blogging etiquette ] so i'll wrap this up with two fun facts:

01) Melvin wrote this:

02) His hustle's like this:

Melvin Van Peebles' wiki > H E R E

yessir,

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