{"id":13546,"date":"2020-05-05T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13546"},"modified":"2020-05-04T12:18:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T16:18:26","slug":"hollywood-shuffle-1987-robert-townsend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13546","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Shuffle (1987, Robert Townsend)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satire about the limited\/terrible roles for black men in hollywood movies &#8211; Townsend&#8217;s directorial debut, a few months before his film of <em>Eddie Murphy Raw<\/em> (and containing some hilarious Murphy impressions).  Sometimes it&#8217;s clunky and low-budget, but overall a winning comedy.  There&#8217;s a main plot, where aspiring actor Townsend gets cast in a demeaning role and takes the moral high ground by walking out, but half the movie is sketches and parodies, reimagining Hollywood hits with black actors.  This was a couple years before cowriter Keenan Ivory Wayans would create <em>In Living Color<\/em>.  Townsend&#8217;s girl is played by Anne-Marie Johnson of <em>Robot Jox<\/em>, and Paul Mooney plays the head of the NAACP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satire about the limited\/terrible roles for black men in hollywood movies &#8211; Townsend&#8217;s directorial debut, a few months before his film of Eddie Murphy Raw (and containing some hilarious Murphy impressions). Sometimes it&#8217;s clunky and low-budget, but overall a winning comedy. There&#8217;s a main plot, where aspiring actor Townsend gets cast in a demeaning role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,91,926,2661],"class_list":["post-13546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-filmmaking","tag-racism","tag-robert-townsend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13567,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13546\/revisions\/13567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}