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Trick Baby is a 1972 Blaxploitation film directed by Larry Yust and starring Kiel Martin and Mel Stewart. This crime-drama is based and named after a novel by Iceberg Slim written in 1967. The film was produced by Marshal Backlar and James Levitt.
Slim's first novel, Trick Baby, was adapted as an eponymous 1972 movie directed by Larry Yust [16] and produced independently for $600,000, with a cast of unknowns. Universal Pictures acquired the film for $1,000,000 and released it in 1973 to a considerable amount of Iceberg Slim fanfare; the movie grossed $11,000,000 at the US box office.
Following his recovery, Martin starred as the title character in the Blaxploitation film Trick Baby (1972) based on the novel by Iceberg Slim. He appeared in The Panic in Needle Park (1971) featuring Al Pacino and Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973) along with a young Jeff Bridges.
Trick Baby is based on the book of the same name by ex-pimp Iceberg Slim. Willie Dynamite, Roscoe Orman (Gordon from Sesame Street fame) plays a pimp. As in many blaxploitation films, the lead character drives a customized Cadillac Eldorado Coupe (the same car was used in Magnum Force).
Don "Magic" Juan, (born Donald Campbell November 30, 1949, also known as The Chairman of the Board, Archbishop Don 'Da Magic' Juan, Bishop Don Magic Juan, or just Bishop) is an American preacher, [1] hip hop personality, actor, fashion designer and former pimp, [2] from Chicago.
Three Wise Men and a Baby, Hallmark Channel's play on the 1987 classic Three Men and a Baby, was so popular at the network (it was the most-watched new movie of 2022) that it was bound to get a ...
The rapper 50 Cent writes in his self-help-autobiography Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter, that "Personally, I didn’t get into reading until I found writers like Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim who wrote in a voice that felt familiar to me". Goines' books have been utilized in several prison literacy programs.
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