Stage Notes: Director David Meglino talks Hate Mail ; FW Opera director resigns
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Stage Notes: Circle Theatre opens Young Frankenstein, Shakespeare Dallas 50th anniversary
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Josh Alford’s drawing of a future murder victim receiving his degree is part of TCU Theatre’s For Bo.
Photo courtesy of TCU Theatre.
Sparked by the L.A. riots following the videotaped police beating of Rodney King and the success of John Singleton’s movie
Boyz N the Hood, Hollywood produced a string of films in the early 1990s about young Black men that almost always included a scene with their main characters being terrorized by racist white cops. That story point became so common in “hood movies” that Rusty Cundieff’s 1994 comedy
Fear of a Black Hat parodied the trope by having its rapper protagonist held at gunpoint by an overzealous security guard and pointing out the crowd of people videotaping the incident, plus one woman executing an oil painting of it, plus one man making a life-size papier-mâché sculpture of it.