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SHOWTIME PRESENTS "10,000 BLACK MEN NAMED GEORGE"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SHOWTIME PRESENTS: "10,000 BLACK MEN NAMED
GEORGE" ON
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2002 at 8:00PM (ET/PT)
IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION
STARRING ANDRÉ BRAUGHER, CHARLES S. DUTTON AND MARIO VAN PEEBLES
The Story Of Civil Rights Champion Asa Philip Randolph
Robert Townsend, Director
NEW YORK, January 9, 2001 - On February 24th at 8:00 PM(ET/PT), in
honor of
Black History Month, SHOWTIME presents the Original Picture, "10,000
Black
Men Named George," starring André Braugher("Frequency," "Homicide: Life
On
The Streets" and SHOWTIME's "Love Songs"),Charles S. Dutton ("Roc,"
"The
Corner," "A Time To Kill," "The Piano Lesson," SHOWTIME's "Blind Faith"
and
"Zooman") and Mario Van Peebles ("Ali," "New Jack City," SHOWTIME's
"Riot"
and "Rude Awakening").
This dramatic film is inspired by the life of black organizer, A.
Philip
Randolph (Braugher), an early champion of the Civil Rights movement.
From
1925 to 1937, Randolph led the railway car porters' bruising battle
against
the notoriously anti-union Pullman Company, one of the most powerful
company's in the United States in the 1920's. His efforts helped create
the
first black union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Charles S. Dutton portrays Webster, the union's Chicago-based
organizer.
Mario Van Peebles plays Ashley Totten, one of the founding members of
the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Philip Randolph (Braugher) was an ardent socialist and publisher of a
struggling radical Harlem magazine called "The Messenger." Because
traditional trade unions such as the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
had not yet invited the black working-class to join in the 1920's, the
black labor movement was initiated by the railway porters who worked on
the sleeping cars for the Pullman company. Although they were proud of
their profession, the porters were often humiliated and dismissed by
the
upper-class white passengers. They were grossly underpaid. In the eyes
of
the Pullman Company and many of their patrons alike, the porters were
not
seen as individuals and were simply referred to "George" after the
owner of
the railway company.
10,000 BLACK MEN NAMED GEORGE is directed by Robert Townsend
(SHOWTIME's
"Love Songs," "The Five Heartbeats," "Streets of Fire") and written by
Cyrus
Nowrasteh (SHOWTIME's "The Day Reagan Was Shot"). Abby Mann (SHOWTIME's
"Whitewash: The Clarence Brantley Story), André Braugher and the late
Stan
Margulies ("Dash and Lilly," "The Thorn Birds," "The Man Who Captured
Eichmann," "Roots") served as executive producers.
André Braugher (A. Philip Randoph) has received an Emmy Award* for
Outstanding Actor for his portrayal of Detective Frank Pembleton on
"Homicide: Life on the Street." Braugher made his directorial debut
with
one of the vignettes for the SHOWTIME trilogy "Love Songs." His motion
picture credits include "Frequency" starring Dennis Quaid, "City of
Angels"
with Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan, "Duets" opposite Gwyneth Paltrow,
"Primal
Fear" starring Richard Gere, Spike Lee's "Get on the Bus" and "Glory,"
the
Oscar*-winning story of America's first unit of Black Soldiers during
the
Civil War.
Charles S. Dutton has appeared in films such as "Q & A" and "Cry the
Beloved
Country." His other motion picture credits include Spike Lee's
"Get on the Bus," "Alien 3," "Nick of Time," "No Mercy," "Mississippi
Masala," "Jacknife," "Crocodile Dundee II," "The Distinguished
Gentleman,"
"Menace II Society" and "Rudy." On television, he has appeared in the
title
role of the series "Roc" which he also executive produced. He received
two
NAACP Image Award nominations for the Roc character, winning the award
in
1992. Dutton also executive produced the critically- acclaimed series
"Laurel Avenue." His other television acting credits includes "The
Piano
Lesson," Showtime's "Zooman" and the Emmy Award*-winning mini-series,
"The
Murder of Mary Phagan" with Jack Lemmon.
Mario Van Peebles most recent role was playing Malcolm X in Michael
Mann's
"Ali" starring Will Smith, Jon Voight and Jamie Foxx. Van Peebles made
his
directing debut with "New Jack City" and also directed and acted in
"Posse,"
"Panther," SHOWTIME's "Gang in Blue," and "Love Kills." He has been
honored
with an NAACP Image Award for acting in "Heartbreak Ridge" a Director's
Guild Award nomination for an After School Special, "Malcolm Takes a
Shot"
and a CableACE Award nomination for "Third Oak: The Pool Hall" with
James
Earl Jones.
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