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Netflix’s One Night in Miami – an Idealized Meeting of Icons – Debuts Jan. 15

  Edited by Naomi Richard

    On the evening of February 25, 1964, four icons of sports, entertainment and activism celebrated one of the greatest upsets in boxing history in a modest motel room in Miami. After claiming the World Heavyweight title for the first time, Cassius Clay (Eli Goree) — who would soon change his name to Muhammad Ali — got together with three friends: human rights activist Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), music superstar Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.) and football legend and emerging action-movie hero Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge).  

    One Night In Miami… is a fictional imagining of the historic night these towering figures spent together. Unbeknownst to the others, Malcolm X, who is about to embark on a bold new undertaking that will put him in grave personal danger, has arranged the gathering in the hope of winning Clay’s support. As the evening progresses in surprising ways, the four men engage in passionate debate about their roles as celebrities and leaders at a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. 

   Director Regina King with Eli Goree on the set of ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI. Photo: Patti Perret/Amazon Studios

     Directed by Academy Award-winner Regina King and written by Kemp Powers based on his award-winning play, One Night In Miami is set on the verge of the momentous political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s.  Today, more than 50 years later, the vital urgency of these trailblazers’ conversations — about racial injustice, about what it means to be successful as a person of color, and concerning the social responsibilities that come with that success — still resonate.

    One Night In Miami also stars Joaquina Kalukango, Nicolette Robinson, Beau Bridges and Lance Reddick. The producers are Jess Wu Calder, Keith Calder and Jody Klein. Executive producers are Regina King, Kemp Powers, Paul O. Davis and Chris Harding.

     Leslie Odom Jr. stars in ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI Photo: Patti Perret/Amazon Studios

         The idea for his play came to Kemp Powers when he learned that after Cassius Clay’s first defeat of Sonny Liston, the 22-year-old Clay went back to the Hampton House Motel in Overtown, Florida — an oasis for African Americans visiting segregated Miami — where he spent an evening in conversation with friends Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown.  

      “It was just one paragraph in a book I was reading about the intersection of sports and the Civil Rights Movement, but it kind of blew my mind,” recalls Powers. “I had to go back and read it a few more times. And then I couldn’t get it out of my mind. After all, these were four of my heroes.”

        Powers says he became obsessed with learning everything he could about how these four men knew each other and why they converged in Malcolm X’s motel room that night. He read multiple biographies and dug up interviews to understand who they were and what their connection was.  Powers reasoned, “The more I learned about them, the more it seemed natural they would have been drawn to one another. They were unapologetic in their art. They were unapologetic in their political beliefs. And in the early 1960s to be a free, unapologetic Black man was quite a rarity.”

      Don’t miss this Netflix Classic set for release January 15, 2021, and for more information visit www.onenightinmiami.movie.

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Go With The Flow by Queens Of The Stone Age from the album Songs for the Deaf - Directed by Shynola

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Chris Harding, {2005} Learn Self Defense

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My favorite "Sap" from the original series was Chris Harding, portrayed by a young, blonde-haired, blue-eyed Chris Chittel. Chris went on to show his naughty bits in some Swedish porn flicks before becoming one of (if not THE) longest-serving cast members of the soap Emmerdale.

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U High's Sundance kid ready for opening night

NORMAL — The buddy system is alive and working well for Twin City native Chris Harding.

His new buddy comedy, "Blindspotting," which the University High School grad co-produced, has been awarded the coveted top slot at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Namely, it's the opening night attraction Thursday.

Sundance, of course, takes its name from one of the most popular buddy comedies in movie history: 1969's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," which co-starred festival founder Robert Redford as the Kid.

Harding, who hails from U High's famously fertile Class of '01 (home of fellow arts travelers Pokey LaFarge, Dan Hubbard and Nick Africano), calls landing the choice opening night berth "a really big deal for a little film like ours."

"It's a huge honor ... that opening night slot is the most coveted," agreed Chris' proud mom, Ann Harding of Normal, who'll be traveling to Park City along with equally proud dad C.P. (C.P. got a cameo in Chris' acclaimed thriller of four years ago, "The Guest," which played an exclusive run at Bloomington's Galaxy 14 in October 2014).

"Blindspotting" stars Daveed Diggs, best known for his Tony- and Grammy-winning turn as the Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the original Broadway run of "Hamilton."

Here, Diggs plays Collin, an ex-con nearing the end of a long probation in Oakland, Calif., where he grew up, and now undergoing trendy gentrification.

On his probation's last day, along comes Miles (Rafael Casal), Collin's trouble-making best friend from way back to "completely derail his path back to the straight-and-narrow, sending the Bay boys on a spiraling collision course with each other."

Diggs and Casal not only co-star but also co-wrote the script and joined Harding on the production end at Snoot Entertainment, indie home of such acclaimed Harding-produced thrillers as "You're Next" (2011), "The Guest" (2014) and "The Last Survivors" (2015, aka "The Well").

The New York Times recently singled out "Blindspotting" as one of the "Six Films to Know" at this year's Sundance (doing the math, that's six out of 110 films from around the globe being screened).

IndieWire.com names the film one of Sundance's "8 Surprises and Hidden Gems," and calls it "poised to fulfill a need (for) American movies with people of color finding success with a wide audience."

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"Blindspotting," though, represents something more connected to the mood of the times.

"We're starting to feel the pressure," admitted Harding a week before the big opening night soiree in Park City.

"But we're confident that we've made a good movie."

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