New museum displays explore everything from dime novel art to the classic cowboy bandanna.
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Bobby Fischer Against the World
The man was Bobby Fischer, a notoriously private guy who nonetheless became a global superstar in 1972 for unseating Russia’s Boris Spassky for the world championship in chess, so perhaps it’s not so inappropriate that a documentary about his life begin unfolding to the famous funk groove of Isaac Hayes’ “Shaft.” For a brief time, […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Bobby Fischer Against the World
The man was Bobby Fischer, a notoriously private guy who nonetheless became a global superstar in 1972 for unseating Russia’s Boris Spassky for the world championship in chess, so perhaps it’s not so inappropriate that a documentary about his life begin unfolding to the famous funk groove of Isaac Hayes’ “Shaft.” For a brief time, […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Shaft: The TV Movie Collection / The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: 8-Movie Collection
In other words, he’s still the black private dick, just no longer the sex machine to all the chicks. Still, in making the jump from the big screen to the boob tube for a short-lived series in 1973, Roundtree stayed put, and that has to count for something. It does, even if the show is […]