Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Miguel Piñero (December 19, 1946 – June 16, 1988) was a Puerto Rican born American playwright, actor and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café. He was a leading member of the Nuyorican literary movement .
Short Eyes is a 1974 drama written by playwright Miguel Piñero.The play premiered at the Theater of the Riverside Church, [1] was then produced off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater on February 28, 1974, and transferred after 54 performances to the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Broadway on May 23, 1974.
Piñero is a 2001 American biopic about the troubled life of Nuyorican poet and playwright Miguel Piñero, starring Benjamin Bratt as the title character. [1] It was written and directed by the Cuban filmmaker, Leon Ichaso, [1] premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival on August 31, 2001, and then received a limited theatrical release in the United States on December 13, 2001.
Short Eyes is a 1977 American prison drama film directed by Robert M. Young and based on Miguel Piñero's play of the same name. [1] It was filmed in the Manhattan House of Detention for Men, otherwise known as The Tombs. The Wu-Tang Clan sampled dialogue from the film for the songs "Let My Niggas Live" and "Gravel Pit" in 2000. [2]
Jailhouse rock is a name used to describe a collection of fighting styles that were practiced or developed within black urban communities in the 1960s and 1970s. [1] [4]The many different manifestations of JHR share a commonality in blending western boxing with other stylised martial arts techniques. [6]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
The Guardian reviewed the album, giving it five stars and saying, "The album cleverly reinvents several perennially engaging musics: noir atmospherics; Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban groove fundamentals; Bitches Brew-era space music; Latin boogaloo."
Short Eyes – Miguel Pinero; Same Time, Next Year – Bernard Slade; Seascape – Edward Albee; Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island – Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona; The National Health – Peter Nichols; The Wiz. Mack and Mabel; The Lieutenant; Shenandoah; Best Book of a Musical Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written ...