{"id":2234,"date":"2008-02-12T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T22:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2008-02-12T16:13:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T00:13:50","slug":"camera-of-death-vs-bottom-of-the-barrel-film-premiere-grapes-on-a-vine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2234","title":{"rendered":"Camera Of Death Vs. Bottom of the Barrel Film Premiere ‘Grapes on a Vine’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stills: Onira Tares<\/a> Onira Tares<\/a> Onira Tares<\/a> James Lewis<\/a> James Lewis<\/a> James Lewis<\/a> James Lewis<\/a><\/p>\n

Video Interview With Onira Tares<\/a> <\/p>\n

With a dozen other photographers, I showed up to the Magic Johnson Theaters in Crenshaw this afternoon for the 1 p.m. premiere of Grapes on a Vine<\/a> (produced by Atlanta’s Bottom of the Net productions).<\/p>\n

The film’s producer, Sharlene Falls, was also the publicist. She has a speaking part.<\/p>\n

Only two people showed up that we could photograph: Onira Tares and James Lewis.<\/p>\n

Here are the celebrities promised who never arrived: "Angela Bassett, Vivica A. Fox, Andre Royo, Isaiah Washington, Robert Townsend, Leon, Jazmin Lewis, Gregory Alan Williams, Willie Mac, Aunjaune Ellis, Paula Rittie, Dwayne Boyd, Alfred Robbins."<\/p>\n

If a couple of them had showed, I was prepared to make "Grapes" my favorite movie of this year’s Pan African Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I asked a photographer from Getty Images for his favorite East African film. He named "Zulu<\/a>" from 1964.<\/p>\n

To pass the time, I got him to recite to me all the countries on the coast of Africa, starting with Morocco and Libya.<\/p>\n

While sitting in her car in the parking lot, a white woman photographer got yelled at a group of black teenagers. "Hey you f—ing bitch, get off your phone."<\/p>\n

The photographers, all white, huddled like Custer inside the theater’s lobby.<\/p>\n

We started leaving at 1:35 p.m.<\/p>\n

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