Shaft still a hit from 1971 to the year 2000 From: Miami Times | Date: June 27, 2000| Author: Cox, J. | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Miami Times

06-27-2000

Shaft still a hit from 1971 to the year 2000

Shaft, directed by John Singleton from a script he cowrote with Shane
Salerno and Richard Price, is a sequel/tribute to the most famous
blaxploitation picture of them all, yet if you watch the original "Shaft"
now, it all but goes to sleep after the opening credits. That title
sequence, of course, is immortal: Richard Roundtree with his lover-man
'fro, strolling through a ni...

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