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In Screen Gab No. 73, we ask the co-creator of 'Daisy Jones & the Six' about creating a fictional Fleetwood Mac, offer weekend recommendations and more.

"They need to leave," St Louis' 5th Ward Alderman James Page said about the gas station at 721 N. Tucker Blvd. "It's as simple as that."

The groundbreaking 1987 comedy put Hollywood on blast for its deficient representation of Black people onscreen.

Records show there have been seven shootings downtown in the past three weeks.

With his 1987 debut now part of the Criterion Collection, filmmaker Robert Townsend looks back on its making and legacy: 'I broke every rule.'

Robert Townsend looks back on his directorial debut, "Hollywood Shuffle," upon its entry into The Criterion Collection and what has and has not changed in Hollywood since 1987.

I just got back from the Lincoln County courthouse. Supporting a victim of BWS, battered wife syndrome, also called domestic abuse, spousal abuse. The punk was arrested Nov. 12, 2022, and he is still in county jail, on $750K bail. “Waldport man in jail on second-degree attempted murder, 9 other charges” Nov. 14, 2022 All

"The number of graduated language and literature majors decreased by roughly half"

Robert Townsend made his directorial debut with "Hollywood Shuffle" and the comedy satire instantly became a classic.  

“You’re a bad mofo, you get out of the Cadillac and you pimp-slap her.”