We Return As The Summer Goes: Poison, Friendship and Film
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It’s been more than half a year since I wrote this piece about Moses Gunn's monumental performance in The Killing Floor (Bill Duke, 1984). There is so much to say and yet so little that can be articulated rightly. There is the way Gunn (as Heavy Williams) maneuvers through his words. There is the way he focuses on the small and the large, whether he dresses down Custer (Damien Leake) for the "poison" of it all or in the moments of beautiful relation that come in the knowledge of "what a friend is." Months later they resound in my mind. They never could be escaped and, I think, we shouldn’t want to run away. But time comes for us all and below, I've reproduced the piece on Moses Gunn, labor, love and
We Return As The Summer Goes: Poison, Friendship and Film
We Return As The Summer Goes: Poison…
We Return As The Summer Goes: Poison, Friendship and Film
It’s been more than half a year since I wrote this piece about Moses Gunn's monumental performance in The Killing Floor (Bill Duke, 1984). There is so much to say and yet so little that can be articulated rightly. There is the way Gunn (as Heavy Williams) maneuvers through his words. There is the way he focuses on the small and the large, whether he dresses down Custer (Damien Leake) for the "poison" of it all or in the moments of beautiful relation that come in the knowledge of "what a friend is." Months later they resound in my mind. They never could be escaped and, I think, we shouldn’t want to run away. But time comes for us all and below, I've reproduced the piece on Moses Gunn, labor, love and