As you all might know, Comeback Girl loves numbers, especially when they represent dollars and cents. American Gangster’s estimated NOv 2-4 weekend numbers was approx. 50 million, final count will be available tomorrow afternoon.
Posts Tagged as ‘American Gangster’
Sunday, November 4, 2007
American Gangster Weekend Box Office Numbers
Saturday, November 3, 2007
My Date And Frank Lucas
Comeback Girl loved ‘American Gangster’. Washington and Crowe’s characters were excellent. Shout out to Ms. Ruby Dee. Hell add an extra few points for Director Ridley Scott’s perseverance in wanting the movie to get made and pushing through 2 failed attempts. Yes its true, Comeback Girl made the movie her first date with “D”. Comeback [...]
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Seduced By Frank Lucas
Comeback Girl was going to launch an All Points bulletin last night about the new episode of American Gangster on BET featuring Frank Lucas, infamous crime boss.
And then she was going to wax philosophical about TV One’s smart programming (founded by Comeback Girl Cathy Hughes) with a new “Black Enterprise” show featuring: you guessed it enterprising [...]
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
The Other Side Of Frank Lucas: Mayme & Bumpy Johnson
As the world awaits the unveiling of American Gangster, Comeback Girl did a little digging to find some notable women behind this story, and she is a Comeback Girl in her own right, albeit of the underworld. She’s 90 plus now, so I suppose Comeback Girl #1 can have a little amnesia and some fascination [...]
Monday, October 29, 2007
What Does A Gangster Look Like At 77?
The answer if you were scratching your head is Frank Lucas, recent inspiration of Denzel Washington’s protrayal in “American Gangster” and BET’s episodic recount of the most famed in Black History. Got to love black history especially when the roughest toughest crime lords get glamorized. It all made hip hop what it is today.
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