Slate named Hollywood Shuffle to its Black Film Canon, and the film was added to the Criterion Collection this month. I spoke with Townsend about terrible auditions, making a movie without your ...

“That’s when I found my cinematic voice.” He highlights that absurdity in a “Hollywood Shuffle” scene that serves as a PSA for the “Black Acting School,” where White instructors ...

The personal events that inspired Hollywood Shuffle, as well as the financial challenges Townsend encountered while making it, provide as much insight on the racial politics of the movie industry ...

How scarce were opportunities for Black filmmakers when Robert Townsend and Keenen Ivory Wayans dreamt up the idea for Hollywood Shuffle in the mid-1980s? Townsend, who had a solid acting career at ...

I had nightmares for weeks after watching that film. And then one day, I turned on this movie called Hollywood Shuffle, and I realized, Oh, these guys are talking about racism, but they're talking ...

David McKnight, whose film resume included starring as the lead in the blaxploitation horror movie J.D.’s Revenge, as well as Robert Townsend’s Hollywood Shuffle and The Five Heartbeats ...

Released in 1987, his directorial debut, Hollywood Shuffle, was a hilariously scathing look at the ... signing up for countless credit cards to make his movie, screening the film for Eddie Murphy, and ...

S ex scenes and female nudity have long been central to Hollywood’s business model. Some of us have argued that such a business model is corrupt, harming both men and women — both those making ...

William Okuwah Garrett, film editor on Hollywood Shuffle and director of music videos during the “Black Pack” era of the early ’90s, has died. He was 73. His wife, producer-director Marlene ...

Every generation has a Robert Townsend movie for them, whether it’s his acerbic examination of Black actors in the film industry with 1987’s “Hollywood Shuffle,” his attempt to crack the ...