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How Paul Mooney became a legend by snubbing white Hollywood Opinion: The incendiary stand-up comic will not only be remembered for his bold, poignant jokes, but for how he resisted the urge to sell out for crossover success Comedian Paul Mooney performs onstage at the 2005 BET Comedy Icon Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on September 25, 2005 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Vince Bucci/Getty Images) What does success in show business look like? How is it measured? Is it determined by how many followers you have on social media? Is it determined by how much money you have, or how many endorsements you have, or the amount of times we see or hear you? Most people would equate fame with success, but to some, it’s all about being able to live your life comfortably without losing your soul. ....
You ve been hoodwinked. You ve been had. You ve been took. You ve been led astray, run amuck. You ve been bamboozled. So said Malcolm X, as quoted by Spike Lee in the production notes to Bamboozled, his perplexing new film. To Malcolm, the bamboozlers were white people in general, but in Lee s films they re the television executives, black and white, who bamboozle themselves in the mindless quest for ratings. The film is a satirical attack on the way TV uses and misuses African-American images, but many viewers will leave the theater thinking Lee has misused them himself. Advertisement That s the danger with satire: To ridicule something, you have to show it, and if what you re attacking is a potent enough image, the image retains its negative power no matter what you want to say about it. Bamboozled shows black actors in boldly exaggerated blackface for a cable production named Mantan The New Millennium Minstrel Show. Can we see beyond the blackface to its pur ....