Sounder

...chicken, the boy still hungers for an education. Sounder won the Newbery Award in 1970, and was made in to a major motion picture in 1972. Sounder is based on a true story. The main character, the family's eldest son, is simply named...

In this article: Sounder, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Chicken, Bulldog, Dog, Newbery Award, Lonne Elder III, and Disney

...on the cult TV series Prison Break. He considers his most important and life-changing role to be In 2003, Hooks revisited Sounder. He directed ABC 's Wonderful World of Disney's TV remake of the film, with Paul Winfield, his co-star...

In this article: Kevin Hooks, Wonderful World, Fled, Disney, Paul Winfield, Robert Hooks, Wesley Snipes, Stephen Baldwin, and Laurence Fishburne

...characters, which the book did not. The white people in the book are more truculent, cruel and racist than those in the film. Both Sounder and his master's father are more horribly injured in the book than in the movie. Realistic...

In this article: Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Lonne Elder III, Academy Award, Newbery Medal, Disney, Sounder, and Taj Mahal

...still brings back memories of how scared I was of the movie as a child. Those squared toes are terrifying. She's absolutely right. "Sounder" is a great movie, sent from Keith. And this is from Sherman. "City of Ember" was a good movie which...

In this article: Madeleine L'Engle, Pinocchio, Wallace Shawn, and The Cat in the Hat

CICELY Tyson, the septuagenarian actress who peaked in the early 1970s with "Sounder" and "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," could use an etiquette lesson, according to an attendee at Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday celebration at...

In this article: Nelson Mandela, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Susan Sarandon, Forest Whitaker, Whoopi Goldberg, Morgan Freeman, and Tim Robbins

...fellow nominee "Cabaret" ended up winning eight Academy Awards. Rounding out the nominees were "Deliverance," the Swedish import "The Emigrants" and "Sounder." "30 Rock" sets a record, "Mad Men" still a favorite, and enter, "Family Guy."

In this article: Academy Awards, World War I, Sons and Lovers, Elmer Gantry, The Sundowners, The Apartment, Mister Roberts, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, and Rebel Without a Cause

...to Sodo. Parking is free but limited to 24 hours. Chances are good the lot will overflow in the near future, as happened to Sounder commuter-rail stations a few miles east. Transit-board members don't have a strategy yet, though some...

In this article: Tukwila, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and Seattle

...white women and gays. The films didn't play only in black neighborhoods (while other classier, non-exploitation black films, like "Sounder," and "Lady Sings the Blues," were soon competing for Academy Awards). Yet they gave black audiences...

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...in The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1965), directed by Martin Ritt. 20th Century Fox Paul Winfield plays a sharecropper in Sounder (1972). By coincidence, two Martin Ritt films are being released on Tuesday by two different...

In this article: Martin Ritt, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Blu-ray, Richard Burton, James Bond films, Fox Home Entertainment, Oskar Werner, and Paul Winfield

...and more. Maggie Cheung stars as herself in Olivier Assayas's movie 'Irma Vep.' Paul Winfield and Kevin Hooks in the 1972 film "Sounder." "Chungking Express" didn't kick off a new era of filmmaking as Jean-Luc Godard's...

In this article: Maggie Cheung, Paul Winfield, Samuel Fuller, Chungking Express, White Dog, Magnificent Obsession, Douglas Sirk, Randolph Scott, and Irma Vep