White Mans Burden

Starring: Harry Belafonte, John Travolta Director: Desmond Nakano Original UK Premiere: 1997 Dvd Release: 11th May, 1999 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Colour, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen, Region 0 Encoding Subtitled In: English, French, Spanish

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Harry Belafonte is a Harlem -born calypso musician & actor who used his fame as an entertainer in the cause of human rights. He is perhaps best known for singing the Banana Boat Song with its signature lyric Day-O. His breakthrough album Calypso was the first album to sell over 1 million copies. He was the first African-American to win an Emmy, with his first solo TV special “tonight with Belafonte”. He appeared on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour & performed a controversial Mardi Gras number with footage intercut from the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots. Belafonte has gained notoriety for his left wing political views & has called both United States Secretary of State Colin Powell & National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice house slaves. From 1935 to 1939 he lived with his mother in her homeland Jamaica. When he returned to New York he attended George Washington High school after which he joined the navy & served during the second world war. Posters Of Harry Belafonte

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John Joseph Travolta is an American actor. He became famous for his appearance in Saturday Night Fever & Grease at the height of the disco era, as well as for his portrayal of Vinnie Barbarino on the television sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. After that, his career more or less slumped until he played Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino s Pulp Fiction, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Travolta also played a lead role in the panned   Battlefield Earth, in which he plays the leader of a group of aliens that enslave humanity in a bleak future Earth. The film received almost universally negative reviews & did not do well at the box office. Travolta, who is a Scientologist & idolizes the late L Ron Hubbard, had hoped that the film would be well-received & be the first in a series of Hubbard film adaptations. He is married to actress Kelly Preston & father of two children. Travolta is a qualified pilot & owns five airplanes, including a former Qantas Boeing 707 -138. His house in Florida has its own runway & taxiway right to the door. Posters Of Ladder 49

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