Exit 13<\/em><\/a>, it was a struggle for me to give the work its due, but I’m happy with what I got. Please check it out!<\/p>\n![\"\u201cI](\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/miracleatstanna2-786135jpeg.jpg\" "\\"\u201cI")
Also, Spike Lee’s World War II drama, Miracle at St. Anna<\/em>, starring Derek Luke, right, is not doing all that well critically (it’s been roundly panned as flat and bloated), or<\/em> financially: To-date, it’s only taken in $6.6 million of its $45 million production budget.<\/p>\nI enjoyed it, mostly. (The ending…eh.) <\/em>Even more, though, I enjoyed speaking briefly with Spike for ESSENCE magazine. The piece is not on the web, to my knowledge, but if you can find the October issue\u2014the one with Mo’Nique on the cover, still on the stands, I think, despite the encroaching Beyonc\u00e9 issue\u2014our Q&A is on p. 80.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If L.L. Cool J, above, is not The G.O.A.T.\u2014”Greatest of All Time”\u2014he’s without doubt O.O.T.G.O.A.T.\u2014”One of the Greatest of All Time.” So, with his 24-year Def Jam contract ending, and only 300 words in The Village Voice to review his 12th studio album, Exit 13, it was a struggle for me to give the work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,10,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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