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Hace 1 hora · Huey P. Newton's flight to Cuba from the U.S. is dramatized in Apple TV+'s The Big Cigar. Here's the real history behind the series.
Hace 4 horas · Long before “fake news,” “The Big Cigar” looks back to the time of a fake movie – specifically, one designed to provide Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton cover to flee America for Cuba. Yet what should be an enticing mashup of the civil-rights movement and Hollywood in the freewheeling ‘70s doesn’t entirely ignite, in a limited series whose underlying true story packs ...
Hace 15 horas · André Holland as Huey P. Newton and Alessandro Nivola as Bert Schneider in “The Big Cigar,” premiering May 17 on Apple TV+. He laughed describing their unlikely friendship as a kind of platonic, drug-fueled bromance. Nivola said he drew inspiration from a photograph of the two men with their arms around each other.
Hace 15 horas · Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A Black Panther revolutionary and a Hollywood insider walk into a bar … and plan a caper that has the latter helping to smuggle the former out of the country. That story — about political activist Huey P. Newton and movie producer Bert Schneider, who made counterculture classics such as “Easy Rider” — forms the basis of the six-episode Apple TV+ ...
Hace 15 horas · One of the things I would encourage people to do is to investigate the Huey P Newton Foundation, which is up in Oakland. They just opened a museum very recently.
Hace 15 horas · Starring in the role of Huey P. Newton is Andre Holland of the Academy Award Winning film, “Moonlight,” Tiffany Boone of “The Chi.” and Tony Award-nominated actor Alessandro Antine Nivola. Suki is an internationally recognized cinematographer and producer who has worked alongside Ryan Murphy on “American Horror Story” and Lady Gaga.
Hace 15 horas · Developed by Jim Hecht, “The Big Cigar” details the manhunt for Newton in 1974, a time when the government was so actively hunting members of the Black Panther Party that several of its leaders fled the country, and those who remained worried for their safety. The bulk of the six-part series details Newton’s efforts to escape the United ...
