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Idlewild (film), the Glossary

Idlewild is a 2006 American musical drama film written and directed by Bryan Barber.^[1]

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African-American musical films
Atlas Entertainment films

Allen Shapiro

Allen Shapiro is a media executive and investor.

An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, 'against' and χρόνος khronos, 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of people, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods.

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André 3000

André Lauren Benjamin (born May 27, 1975), better known as André 3000, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor.

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Anne Goursaud

Anne Goursaud is a French filmmaker known for her work editing Francis Ford Coppola films like Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Outsiders.

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Atlas Entertainment

Atlas Entertainment, LLC is an American film financing and production company, started by Charles Roven, Bob Cavallo and Dawn Steel in 1995.

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Ben Vereen

Benjamin Augustus Vereen (born Benjamin Augustus Middleton; October 10, 1946) is an American actor, dancer and singer.

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Big Boi

Antwan André Patton (born February 1, 1975), known professionally as Big Boi, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor.

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Big Boi and Dre Present... Outkast

Big Boi and Dre Present… Outkast is the only compilation album by the American Southern hip hop duo Outkast.

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Bill Nunn

William Goldwyn Nunn III (October 20, 1953 – September 24, 2016) was an American actor known for his roles as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing, Robbie Robertson in the Sam Raimi ''Spider-Man'' film trilogy and as Terrence "Pip" Phillips on The Job (2001–02).

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Black Reel Awards

The Black Reel Awards, or BRAs, is an annual American awards ceremony hosted by the Foundation for the Augmentation of African Americans in film (FAAAF) to recognize excellence of African Americans, as well as the cinematic achievements of the African diaspora, in the global film industry, as assessed by the foundation’s voting membership.

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Black Reel Awards of 2007

The 2007 Black Reel Awards, which annually recognize and celebrate the achievements of black people in feature, independent and television films, took place in Washington, D.C., on February 7, 2007.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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Bobb'e J. Thompson

Bobb'e Jacques Thompson (born February 28, 1996) is an American actor, rapper and comedian.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Bruce Bruce

Bruce Church (born), better known by his stage name Bruce Bruce, is an American comedian and actor.

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Bryan Barber

Bryan Barber (born December 20, 1970) is a music video and motion picture filmmaker.

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Carl Mo

Carlton Mahone Jr., professionally known by his pseudonym Carl Mo, is an American songwriter, record producer and remixer from Atlanta.

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Charles Roven

Charles "Chuck" Roven (born August 2, 1949) is an American film producer and the president and co-founder of Atlas Entertainment.

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Cicely Tyson

Cecily Louise "Cicely" Tyson (December 19, 1924January 28, 2021) was an American actress known for her portrayal of strong African-American women.

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Debra Killings

Debra Killings (born July 7, 1964) is an American singer and bass guitarist, notable for extensive session and background vocal work for LaFace Records and Rowdy Records-based artists such as TLC, Monica, and Outkast.

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Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.

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Ensemble cast

In a dramatic production, an ensemble cast is one that comprises many principal actors and performers who are typically assigned roughly equal amounts of screen time.

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Faizon Love

Faizon Andre Love (born Langston Faizon Santisima; June 14, 1968) is an American actor and comedian.

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Film Journal International

Film Journal International was a motion-picture industry trade magazine published by the American company Prometheus Global Media.

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Fonzworth Bentley

Derek Watkins (born February 13, 1974), known professionally as Fonzworth Bentley, is an American rapper, actor, television presenter, and author.

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Frank Lovece

Frank Lovece is an American journalist, author, and a comic book writer primarily for Marvel Comics, where he and artist Mike Okamoto created the miniseries Atomic Age.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

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Great Depression in the United States

In the United States, the Great Depression began with the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and then spread worldwide.

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HBO Films

HBO Films (formerly called HBO Premiere Films and HBO Pictures) is an American production and distribution company, a division of the cable television network HBO that produces feature films and miniseries.

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Hinton Battle

Hinton Govorn Battle Jr. (November 29, 1956 – January 30, 2024) was an American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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Idlewild (Outkast album)

Idlewild is the sixth and final studio album by the American hip hop duo Outkast.

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Isaac Hayes

Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jazze Pha

Phalon Anton Alexander, known professionally as Jazze Pha, is an American record producer, rapper, singer and songwriter.

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Jitterbug

Jitterbug is a generalized term used to describe swing dancing.

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John Debney

John Cardon Debney (born August 18, 1956) is an American composer and conductor of film, television, and video game scores.

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Joi (singer)

Joi Elaine Gilliam (born January 25, 1971), better known mononymously as Joi, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer associated with the Dungeon Family collective based in Atlanta, Georgia, and as such often performs with OutKast, Organized Noize, and Goodie Mob (her ex-husband, Big Gipp, is a member of the latter group).

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Juke joint

Juke joint (also jukejoint, jook house, jook, or juke) is the African American vernacular term for an informal establishment featuring music, dancing, gambling, and drinking, primarily operated by African Americans in the southeastern United States.

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Jukebox musical

A jukebox musical is a stage musical or musical film in which a majority of the songs are well-known popular music songs, rather than original music.

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Karen Dyer

Karen Dyer, professionally known as Eva La Dare, is an American film and television and motion capture actress.

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LaFace Records

LaFace Records was an American record label based in Atlanta, Georgia, that operated as a unit of Sony Music Entertainment from 2008 to 2011 and was historically a part of Bertelsmann Music Group from 1989 to 2004.

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Lindy Hop

The Lindy Hop is an American dance which was born in the African-American communities of Harlem, New York City, in 1928 and has evolved since then.

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List of hood films

This is a list of hood films.

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Macy Gray

Natalie Renée McIntyre (born September 6, 1967), known by her stage name Macy Gray, is an American R&B and soul singer and actress.

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Malinda Williams

Malinda Williams (born September 24, 1970) is an American actress and producer.

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Moonshine

Moonshine is high-proof liquor, traditionally made or distributed illegally.

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Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 jukebox musical romantic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. Idlewild (film) and Moulin Rouge! are 2000s musical drama films, American musical drama films and jukebox musical films.

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Mr. DJ

David Sheats, known professionally as Mr.

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Musical film

Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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Norah Jones

Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist.

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Outkast

Outkast (sometimes written as OutKast) was an American hip hop duo formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1992, consisting of rappers Big Boi (Antwan Patton) and André 3000 (André Benjamin, formerly known as Dré).

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Patti LaBelle

Patricia Louise Holte (born May 24, 1944), known professionally as Patti LaBelle, is an American R&B singer and actress.

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Paula Jai Parker

Paula Jai Parker (born August 19, 1969) is an American actress.

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Paula Patton

Paula Maxine Patton (born December 5, 1975) is an American actress and producer.

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Roger Troutman

Roger Troutman (November 29, 1951 – April 25, 1999) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and the founder of the band Zapp who helped spearhead the funk movement and influenced West Coast hip hop due to the scene's heavy sampling of his music.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Rosario Dawson

Rosario Isabel Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Rum-running

Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law.

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Scarface (rapper)

Brad Terrence Jordan (born November 9, 1970), better known by his stage name Scarface, is an American rapper and record producer best known as a member of the Geto Boys, a hip-hop group from Houston, Texas.

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Sleepy Brown

Patrick Leroy "Sleepy" Brown (born January 24, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and record producer.

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Soul music

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is the fifth studio album by the American duo Outkast.

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Terrence Howard

Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an American actor.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Universal Pictures

Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal) is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Universal Studios, which is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idlewild_(film)

Also known as My Life in Idlewild.

, Norah Jones, Outkast, Patti LaBelle, Paula Jai Parker, Paula Patton, Roger Troutman, Rolling Stone, Rosario Dawson, Rotten Tomatoes, Rum-running, Scarface (rapper), Sleepy Brown, Soul music, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Terrence Howard, The Washington Post, Universal Pictures, Universal Studios, Inc., Ving Rhames, 38th NAACP Image Awards, 49th Annual Grammy Awards.

Idlewild (film), the Glossary

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See also

African-American musical films

Atlas Entertainment films

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