Jim Alquist - Turner Classic Movies

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The Double O'Kid (1993)

Double Edge (1992)

A Fight For Jenny (1986)

Alligator (1980)

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Hollywood Shuffle (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Open, There's A Bat In My House

Hollywood Shuffle (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Black Acting School

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Filmography

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The Double O'Kid (1993)

Double Edge (1992)

A Fight For Jenny (1986)

Alligator (1980)

Life Events

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Hollywood Shuffle (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Open, There's A Bat In My House Co-writer (with Keenen Ivory Wayans), director, producer, star and self-financier Robert Townsend opens his famous independent feature, rehearsing in the bathroom, Craigus R. Johnson his little brother, Starletta DuPois his mother, Helen Martin his grandmother, Brad Sanders as “Batty,” in Hollywood Shuffle, 1987.

Hollywood Shuffle (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Black Acting School After a couple of introductory vignettes and with spicy language, writer-director Robert Townsend appears in the fantasy sequence, confirming that he’s imagining all this while waiting at a Hollywood audition, Grand L. Bush as both “Mandingo” and “Ricky Taylor,” also Tony Edwards, in Hollywood Shuffle, 1987.

Hollywood Shuffle (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Sneakin' In The Movies Another of the more famous digressions, director, co-writer, star and producer Robert Townsend as Bobby, fantasizing as he awaits word on his audition, with Jimmy Woodard as pal Tyrone, imagines himself hosting a knock-off Siskel & Ebert show, with still more not-usually appropriate language, in Hollywood Shuffle, 1987.

Color Purple, The - (Original Trailer) Eleven Oscar nominations went to Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the Alice Walker novel The Color Purple (1985).

Sleepless In Seattle - (Original Trailer) Tom Hanks' son uses a radio talk show to find a new wife for his father in Nora Ephron's Sleepless In Seattle (1993) co-starring Meg Ryan.

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