Don't Play Us Cheap [PORTABLE]
Don't Play Us Cheap was filmed in 1972 as Van Peebles' follow-up to his hit film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, but he could not find a distributor, and subsequently wound up adapting the script for a Broadway stage play based on the film.[3] The film later received a limited theatrical release on January 1, 1973, and was not widely seen until it was released on home video.[1] The film's plot has been seen as an allegory for African American resilience in the face of adversity.[4] The house party has been described as a stand-in for the Black Panther Party, and the imps turned human as a metaphor for attempts to thwart the black power movement.[2] The film has also been described as a defense of the United States.[5]
Don't Play Us Cheap
Trinity and Brother Dave are a pair of demons looking for a party to break up. They come across a party in Harlem. Although Trinity is eager, Dave warns him not to touch it. "When black folks throw a party, they don't play!" Trinity joins the party, already in progress, thrown by Miss Maybell in honor of her niece Earnestine's birthday.
As part of the film's set decoration, Van Peebles displayed pictures of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Isaac Hayes (via the cover to his album Black Moses) and Van Peebles himself, via the cover for his own album As Serious as a Heart-Attack.[2] The opening credits declare that the film stars "brothers and sisters getting their groove on", a callback to the opening credits of his previous film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which contains the credit that the film stars "the black community".[7]
After the film was completed, Van Peebles could not find a distributor, and instead staged the script as a musical play on Broadway.[3] The stage production ran for 164 performances. Van Peebles received two Tony nominations, including best book of a musical.[6] A soundtrack album was released in 1972 by Stax Records, as a double album, containing the following track listing:[3]
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The professional tennis tours have been on hiatus since March because of the COVID-19 outbreak, with play resuming for women on Monday in Palermo, Italy. The first men's event on the main tour is scheduled for later this month.
The USTA is planning a doubleheader of sorts at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The Western & Southern Open, a hard-court tournament normally played in Cincinnati, was moved to the US Open site this year because of the pandemic and is scheduled to be played Aug. 20-28.
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Around the world, soccer is played by the rich and poor alike. It's a cheap sport - no pads, no special equipment, you just need a ball. But in the United States, soccer has become the domain of the white suburban well-to-do. Just registering for a club team can run about $1,500 per year.
Immigrant families who played soccer in their old countries can't always pay. In Nashua, N.H., two brothers responded by founding a low-cost high-level Latino soccer club. Here's Emily Corwin of the New England News Collaborative.
EMILY CORWIN, BYLINE: Jared Barbosa is an elementary school guidance counselor, but he was raised by a pro soccer player, a Brazilian who competed all over the world before settling here in Nashua. Every Sunday, Barbosa comes here to the Dunstable soccer fields to play in an adult soccer league, 150 or so mostly Latino guys compete on different teams. They've been coming for years.
CORWIN: Nelly Ciraso is just one of many parents whose kids were priced out of Nashua's club soccer scene. She grew up in Mexico. Soccer is that country's most popular sport. Her kids played for a while on the local rec team, but rec soccer teams can be especially informal.
To get good at soccer, most kids join youth club teams before they hit their teens, but playing on these clubs can add up to more than $4,000 a year. Other sports like basketball and American football are often more affordable, but those aren't necessarily the sports these kids' parents grew up playing.
In his order, General Tice termed the pageant "an admittedly sectarian religious play . . . considered by some to portray an anti-Semitic tone." The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith had protested that the play was anti- Jewish, partly because its English translation from the original German indicated the Jewish people as a whole were implicated in Jesus' death.
Two league officials, Theodore Freedman and Nat Kameny, attended a special preview of this summer's play at Oberammergau, where German officials and Roman Catholic theologians asked them for "further written criticism in greater detail ," a league statement said.
Former Charleston RiverDogs baseball manager Torre Tyson (right) has a 13-year-old son who plays baseball for Moultrie Middle School. Tyson said kids who play for travel teams or academies instead of their local schools are missing out on a part of their childhood. File/Wade Spees/Staff
Carleton was good enough to earn a spot on every U.S. national youth team from the age of 14. He attended Hillgrove High School in metro Atlanta, a traditional prep soccer power in Georgia, but the thought of playing for his high school team never entered his mind.
So Carleton took a route unusual in the U.S., but the norm in other parts of the world. In Europe, Canada, and Central and South America, the notion of playing for your local high school or even a university is, well, foreign. The United States is one of the few countries in the world where athletes play for their respective schools with the hope of earning college scholarships or even professional contracts.
When MacLean was 15, he was good enough to sign with the Ottawa Junior Senators with his sights set on playing for an American college in three years. By playing with the Senators, in the Canadian Junior Hockey League, he was still eligible to play collegiately in the U.S.
Athletes who play in any of three CHL leagues are not eligible to play U.S. college hockey because they are considered professionals. Players in the the OHL, WHL or the QMJHL are not paid a salary, but do receive a stipend for living expenses ranging between $450 to $900 a month.
Major League Baseball has had a minor league system in place for almost a century. Branch Rickey (St. Louis Cardinals) became the first general manager to start a farm system in 1921. Just about every player that makes it to the big leagues nowadays spends at least a limited amount of time in the minors.
As clubs began to see the benefits of the farm system, they expanded the model outside of the U.S., especially in Central and South America. In 1980, just 1 percent of players in the big leagues came from outside the U.S. When the current season opened this past April, 30 percent of the league was made up of foreign-born players, the most coming from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
Tyson played collegiately at Missouri before signing as a free agent with the Boston Red Sox and spending four seasons in the minor leagues. Colbrunn, who had a scholarship offer from Stanford, played more than a decade in the big leagues, winning a World Series title in Arizona after signing with the Montreal Expos out of high school.
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