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My tribute to Ike is a little late, but as they say: better late than never...that is, unless you're referring to Ike as being the "late" Mr. Hayes. Too black, too strong and sadly, much too young. Nevertheless, I am, have always been and will always be a big fan of the R&B legend otherwise known as Black Moses. Hayes won me over mostly because of his music but also because of his recurring role on The Rockford Files, where he lovingly referred to Jim as "Rockfish." Hayes also contributed a great deal to blaxploitation cinema (and was suitably rewarded with an Academy Award for his work on Shaft), starring (his lone starring role) in one of the genres better movies: Truck Turner. While nowhere near it in terms of quality, TT shares one very special thing in common with the greatest film of the genre, Across 110th Street: Mr. Yaphet Kotto.
While TT bears little else in common with A110thS, it isn't an altogether terrible movie. The music, composed and performed by Isaac Hayes, is exceptionally good (yet nowhere near the precedent he set with Shaft) and the movie is full of enough pimps, pimp suits, corny one liners, bullets whizzing, hubcaps flying and politically incorrect usage of the words ni99er and b**ch, that you can't help but love this movie despite it's many flaws. One other delectable TT treat is the performance turned in by Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, Nichelle Nichols, who plays a whoring Madam who is one of the nastiest, iciest, most venomous and raging b**ches ever seen on celluloid. This bada$$ B movie gets an A+ for effort in my books.
My tribute to Ike is a little late, but as they say: better late than never...that is, unless you're referring to Ike as being the "late" Mr. Hayes. Too black, too strong and sadly, much too young. Nevertheless, I am, have always been and will always be a big fan of the R&B legend otherwise known as Black Moses. Hayes won me over mostly because of his music but also because of his recurring role on The Rockford Files, where he lovingly referred to Jim as "Rockfish." Hayes also contributed a great deal to blaxploitation cinema (and was suitably rewarded with an Academy Award for his work on Shaft), starring (his lone starring role) in one of the genres better movies: Truck Turner. While nowhere near it in terms of quality, TT shares one very special thing in common with the greatest film of the genre, Across 110th Street: Mr. Yaphet Kotto.
While TT bears little else in common with A110thS, it isn't an altogether terrible movie. The music, composed and performed by Isaac Hayes, is exceptionally good (yet nowhere near the precedent he set with Shaft) and the movie is full of enough pimps, pimp suits, corny one liners, bullets whizzing, hubcaps flying and politically incorrect usage of the words ni99er and b**ch, that you can't help but love this movie despite it's many flaws. One other delectable TT treat is the performance turned in by Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, Nichelle Nichols, who plays a whoring Madam who is one of the nastiest, iciest, most venomous and raging b**ches ever seen on celluloid. This bada$$ B movie gets an A+ for effort in my books.