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August 29, 2018
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Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Simon Chuckster stars in the 1971 classic “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.”
Racial Paranoia and Revenge
The Northwest Film Center presents a
late night showing of the classic film “Sweet
Sweetback’s Baadassss Song,” by black di-
rector Melvin Van Peeples as part of its late-
night genre film series “Genrified! Cult and
other Curiosities.
After saving a Black Panther from some
racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on
the run from the man with the help of the
ghetto community and some disillusioned
Hells Angels in this 1971 proto-blaxploita-
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tion classic.
A New York Times reviewer described
the movie as a nightmare of racial paranoia
and revenge, evoking a world of infinite
seaminess, injustice and cruelty.
‘Sweet Sweetback’s Badassss Song”
screens at the Portland Art Museum, down-
town, on Saturday, Sept. 8 at 9:30 p.m. For
muture audiences. Admission is $10 general
and $8 for students and seniors. For more in-
formation, visit nwfilm.org.
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Always Fun to be Around
Asian elephant Samudra turned 10 years old at the Oregon Zoo last week, and
it’s safe to say birthday boys don’t come much bigger. The playful pachyderm, who
weighed 286 pounds at birth, now tips the scales at 7,545 pounds. ‘It’s been exciting
to watch him grow up,’ said Shawn Finnell, the zoo’s senior elephant keeper. ‘He’s
getting more confident as he matures, but he still has the playfulness he was born
with. He’s kind of like the class clown of the herd, always fun to be around.’