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Hollywood Shuffle: There's A Bat In My House! Jeff Freeman. 70 subscribers. 532. 48K views 10 years ago. A tribute to B.B. Sanders (AKA Batty Boy) ...more.
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- Jeff Freeman
A limousine arrives, and its passenger is B. B. Sanders, a famous actor who plays a stereotypical black comedy character, Batty Boy, in the popular television sitcom There's a Bat in My House. Ecstatic to meet a potential role model, Bobby asks Sanders how to determine if a role is worth taking.
After a couple of introductory vignettes and with spicy language, writer-director Robert Townsend appears in the fantasy sequence, confirming that he’s imagining all this while waiting at a Hollywood audition, Grand L. Bush as both “Mandingo” and “Ricky Taylor,” also Tony Edwards, in Hollywood Shuffle, 1987.
An actor [Bobby Taylor] limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer. As he makes his rou...
Hollywood Shuffle. This debut feature by Robert Townsend is an ingenious satirical landmark that takes riotous aim at the typecasting of Black actors in 1980s Hollywood.
- Bobby Taylor
A limousine arrives, and its passenger is B.B. Sanders (Brad Sanders), a famous black actor who plays a stereotypical comedy character, Batty Boy, in the popular sitcom 'There's a Bat in My House'. Ecstatic to meet a potential role model, Bobby asks Sanders how to determine whether a role is a good one.
Mar 20, 1987 · Hollywood Shuffle: Directed by Robert Townsend. With Robert Townsend, Craigus R. Johnson, Helen Martin, Starletta DuPois. An actor limited to stereotypical roles because of his ethnicity, dreams of making it big as a highly respected performer.
