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Easter Fever

Martin

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker

The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries


            Set in the year 1964, in the predominately African-American neighborhood of the Cabrini-Green project of North Chicago, high school senior LeRoy "Preach" Jackson (Glynn Thurman) and his best friend Richard "Cochise" Morris (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs) attend Cooley High, a vocational all-black high school, along with their good friends Pooter (Corin Rogers), Willie (Maurice Leon Havis) and Tyrone (Joseph Carter Wilson). Although Preach has strong writing abilities and loves poetry, he continually skips classes.One afternoon after avoiding school all week, Preach returns to class on Friday, but minutes into a boring lecture on the virtues of Cooley students, he fakes a nosebleed and, joined by the others, sneaks away to spend the afternoon at the zoo. Later, the friends return too late for classes. They instead go to the neighborhood diner, named Martha's which is owned and managed by a woman of the same name (Juanita McConnell), who also works as the head cook, where their classmates dance to jukebox music, snack and, in the back near the bathroom, gamble over a dice game. As soon as they arrive at Martha's, the pair learn from a classmate named Dorothy (Lynn Caridine) that their history exam has been moved to Monday, forcing them to study over the weekend.A little later when Cochise urges Preach to leave a dice game dominated by petty crooks Stone (Sherman Smith) and Robert (Norman Gibson), the young men are startled by attractive and unflappable schoolmate Brenda (Cynthia Davis), who demands to get through their game to reach the bathroom. When the others refuse to move, Martha clears the way waving a meat cleaver threateningly. Before going home for dinner, Preach and Cochise meet their some-time girlfriends, Johnny Mae (Jackie Taylor) and Sandra (Christine Jones) to make out. Although Johnny Mae is comfortable with "going all the way" with Cochise, Sandra refuses to "give anything away" to Preach.At home that evening, Cochise's mother Melba (Lily Schine), avoids telling him whether she has received the welfare check, but admits that she has had to bail her boyfriend Jimmie Lee out of jail. Later, Cochise finds a sealed envelope floating in the toilet and, opening it carefully, reads that he has earned a sports scholarship to college the following year. After dinner, Cochise slips away to meet Preach and the others. To celebrate his news, the friends each take a sip from a wine bottle after first dripping a little on the ground "for absent friends."The gang then moves on to a private party thrown by Dorothy in her family's apartment as her parents are away for the evening. After Dorothy turns away Stone and Robert, Preach and Cochise scheme to get into the party without paying the 25 cent cover charge. While Tyrone flirts and charms Dorothy, Preach offers to watch the door and lets his friend sneak in for free. Once inside, Cochise spots the alluring Loretta Brown (Sharon Murff) and asks her to dance, Tyrone continues flirting with Dorothy, while Pooter cannot get any girls interested in him.Meanwhile, Preach tracks Brenda down to a back room where she is reading the poetry of Robert Browning. Although initially dubious when Preach declares he likes Browning, Brenda is moved when Preach lovingly quotes a contemporary poet. Their subsequent talk is interrupted moments later, however, by the arrival of the volatile Damon, who, spotting his usual date, Loretta, clinging to Cochise, ignores Dorothy's pleas and starts a fight.Pleased with the mayhem, the friends goes in search of Jimmy Lee (Steven Williams) at Roscoe's Lounge, but he has conned a man into paying to visit a prostitute, then stolen the man's money. When the others decide to go home, the restless, Preach and Cochise agree to cruise with Stone and Robert, unaware that they have stolen the Cadillac they are in. When Preach insists that he once drove a Maserrati sports car, Stone insists that he drive them around, only to discover that Preach does not know how to drive. Preach panics when a police car pulls up beside him at a light, and speeds off, prompting a wild chase that ends up inside a huge warehouse where the boys just manage to escape. In his excitement at escaping, Preach inadvertently plows the Cadillac into the back of another car and all the boys run away before the police arrive.The next morning, the friends meet at Willie's apartment to study for the history exam, but, growing bored, they steal Willie's little brother's Lone Ranger badge. Preach and Cochise then approach two prostitutes and threaten to arrest them unless they pay bribe money. Realizing too late that the boys are using a toy badge, the women chase after them and their money in vain. The boys spend the money by taking their girlfriends to see a movie, where a fight breaks out after Pooter inadvertently spills popcorn on someone.Later, Preach returns home, where his mother orders him to look after his younger sisters, Tooty and Dee, as she heads off to work. Expecting Brenda, Preach orders the reluctant Tooty to take their sister to a neighbor. When Brenda arrives, Preach is surprised when she confesses to being a virgin, but is also moved. After the couple has sex, in his delight Preach blurts out that he has won the dollar bet he made with Cochise that he could get Brenda to bed. Furious, Brenda storms out just as Tooty returns and catches the two together partially undressed.That Monday at school, Preach attempts to placate Brenda, but she refuses to speak to him, only to abruptly kiss him when she sees Sandra glowering nearby. History teacher Mr. Mason (Garrett Morris) then stops Preach sneaking into class to tell him that if he does not pass the exam he will also flunk the course. Before the exam can begin, however, two plain clothes detectives arrive and charge Preach and Cochise with grand theft auto.At police headquarters, the boys see that Stone and Robert have also been picked up. Each are interrogated separately, and Preach and Cochise lies contradict each other. Unknown to them Mr. Mason arrives and privately vouches for both young men as youthfully reckless but not lawless. On the teacher's word, the boys are let go, but Stone and Robert believe that the pair have implicated them.That evening, Preach climbs into an upper window to get into the house to avoid his mother, but finds a note from Tooty that Mrs. Jackson is working a to know why he was arrested and why he brought home Brenda instead of watching his sisters. Although Preach is relieved, his mother arrives soon after and demands explanations for his arrest and bringing Brenda home instead of babysitting his sisters. Ignoring his explanations, Mrs. Jackson orders Preach to get his belt so she can punish him, but by the time he has sheepishly returned, his mother has fallen into an exhausted sleep.The next day, Preach and Cochise are shocked to learn from Tyrone, Damon and others, that Stone and Robert hold them responsible for their arrest. Later, when Preach skips Mr. Mason's class, the teacher discovers him gambling in the boys' bathroom and asks why he is squandering his intellectual abilities. When Preach tells Mr. Mason that his ambition is to "live forever," the exasperated teacher confesses that he is through saving him. Realizing that it was on Mr. Mason's word that he and Cochise were released from jail, Preach hurries to explain to his friend.At Roscoe's Lounge, Preach is stunned to learn that Cochise spent the afternoon in with Sandra. Angered that his best friend would betray him, Preach takes a swing at him and storms away. Going to Martha's Diner, Preach finds Brenda and, without his usual bragging air, apologizes and asks for another chance. Before he can continue, however, Preach overhears Damon greeting Stone and Robert who have just been released from jail on bail. Alarmed, Preach pleads with Brenda to meet him a few blocks away under the elevated train stop and attempts to hide in the bathroom, before Martha, wielding her cleaver, drives Stone and Robert out.As Stone and Robert's gang chase Preach away from Martha's, Cochise runs into the waiting Brenda who relates the confrontation at the diner. After Preach evades the gang by hiding in a dumpster, he picks up Brenda, but on the train when she mentions seeing Cochise, he realizes the gang will be looking for him too. While Preach disembarks at the next stop to return to Martha's neighborhood, Stone, Robert and their gang come upon Cochise and beat him savagely, finally slamming him into a metal beam. Preach finds his friend unconscious and Cochise dies while Preach calls for help in vain.A few days later at Cochise's funeral, Preach stands apart from the small service and afterward goes to the casket for a personal farewell. Toasting "absent friends," Preach drinks from a wine bottle and recites a poem he has written for his friend. After promising Cochise that he and their friends will all be fine, Preach jogs away from the cemetery, confident in his future.At the end of the film, brief epilogues over still images of several characters reveal their fates:"Preach" moved to Hollywood, California after graduation and found success as a writer."Stone" and "Robert" were killed two years later during a holdup."Brenda" became a librarian, got married, and currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and three children."Damon" joined the U.S. Army and is currently stationed in Europe."Pooter" became a factory worker and currently lives in in Muncie, Indiana."Tyrone" was killed during racial violence at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago.
    

Cooley High

Hunter

The Jamie Foxx Show

2 Broke Girls

Grand Crew

Maid for Each Other


            Two miners (Peter Hock and Harry Bellaver) find a yogurt- and ice-cream-like substance that appears from inside the Earth's core in a kind of eruption. They taste it to see whether it's edible, and they like it a lot. They love the way that it tastes so much that they decide to mass-produce it and start selling it. From now on, it's known as the Stuff, the latest taste sensation.Jason's mother (Colette Blonigan) buys the product--suddenly it's everywhere, on commercials, billboards, at the supermarket. The Stuff is usually kept in the fridge, but Jason (Scott Bloom) doesn't like this new product at all, especially because he saw it move all by itself inside his refrigerator. However, his parents don't listen to him. Soon, there is only Stuff in the household fridge, so that Jason feels more and more hungry and isolated. Jason's family was not a really good family before--at least toward Jason--but now they only talk, eat, and think Stuff.Finally Jason is contacted by industrial-espionage expert David "Mo" Rutherford (Michael Moriarty). They recognize each other as people who have not tasted the Stuff. They go to the main factory to try to stop them from producing the deadly dessert. People become slaves of the Stuff, preferring that substance instead of food.Mo and Jason, and Nicole (Andrea Marcovicci), the designer of the strange substance's advertising campaign, start being attacked by people who have become addicted to the Stuff.Finally, they reach the factory. Mo and Nicole are given a tour around the factory, and the foreman tells them that they have a room paid for at the nearest motel. Meanwhile, Jason sneaks around the plant, and he becomes trapped inside one of the distribution trucks.The most famous scene happens now when at a cheap motel: Stuff starts appearing from David and Nicole's mattress. First, it tries to suffocate David, but Nicole burns it. They run away, but a man obedient to the Stuff is the one who gets killed. Stuff overfloods the whole motel. Meanwhile, the truck in which Jason is in starts moving, followed by David and Nicole. Jason tumbles all around inside it. The truck reaches its destination.Nicole and David see a stream of Stuff flooding from the core of the Earth, being put inside distribution trucks without any filtering. David attaches some mini recording cameras to his ankles and then uses the yellow overalls of the Stuff workers. The Stuff creates weird milky structures and is possibly sentient.Stuff is being poured into the truck in which Jason is trapped. David hears Jason talking though the truck, so he can free him. Meanwhile, Nicole is attacked by one of the workers while she is traveling to the meeting point with David, who saves her. Then, David comes back to take Jason from the truck.A police officer stops the truck that David is driving because the back door was open. David mentions that it's a pity that so much Stuff is getting wasted. Jason and Nicole pretend to eat it until the police officer also goes to eat some and David can knock him down.They reach a fortress, and a rightist militia helps them to take on the factory, lead by Colonel Malcolm Grommett Spears (Paul Sorvino). They kill many factory workers but the Stuff overflows once again. Nicole and Jason run in the last second. The Stuff wrecks the factory. They want to broadcast from Atlanta so that everybody knows what the Stuff can do.'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs (Garrett Morris) is a cookie mogul who will help them because sales of the Stuff made him file for bankruptcy. However, when he arrives at the colonel's radio station, it turns out that he is addicted to Stuff. He takes Nicole aside and opens his mouth and Stuff starts pouring out.Somehow, people believe what the Colonel says and they start turning against the Stuff. They burn it and vandalize places that sell it.The unscrupulous owners of the Stuff want to re-market it by calling it the Taste, a blend of yogurt and ice cream, with enough Stuff on it to turn consumers into addicts. David calls Jason, and he enters the room. Jason takes glasses and glasses of Stuff and they force the company owners to eat it.The police arrive while the two owners eat and eat. They are already hooked on it and can't stop. David and Jason leave.Meanwhile, some criminals are buying loads and loads of their drug of choice, Stuff, implying that the Stuff is here to stay.
    

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