DVD Verdict  Case Number 01051  Buy Bamboozled at Amazon   New
Line // 2000 // 136 Minutes // Rated R Reviewed by Appellate
Judge Mike Pinsky (Retired) // April 19th, 2001  • View
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• Printer Friendly Review    All Rise...  The Charge  "The good
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King did not enjoy seeing his people
beaten on the 6 o'clock news. However white America needed to
see that in order to move this country to change. They need to
see this show for exactly the same reason."—Pierre Delacroix
(Damon Wayans)  Opening Statement  They had names like Willie
Best and Lincoln Theodore Perry. They were Hollywood stars, but
not under those names. While African-American mavericks like
Oscar Micheaux and Paul Robeson stuck to their guns and produced
an authentic black cinema in obscurity, these men, known to
their fans as Sleep N'Eat and Stepin Fetchit, played the studio
game, made good money, and even earned the "respect" of some of
their white peers (if not