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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Featurette

Hollywood Shuffle Arrives On Blu-ray April 28th

Winky Dinky Dog & HO CAKE. This film is one of my favorite comedies to date. And now it arrives on Blu-ray for the first time on APRIL 28th A satire on the ups & downs of being a black actor in Hollywood, Hollywood Shuffle writer/producer/director Robert Townsend (The Five Heartbeats) stars as Bobby Taylor, a young black actor whose attempts to find work are dashed when told that he's not "black enough" for the roles being offered. With jobs limited to stereotypes (gang-bangers, pimps and Uncle Toms'), Bobby's struggles are told through a series of comic fantasies and dreams, making all-too-real that he needs to do the Hollywood Shuffle. Co-starring Keenen Ivory Wayans (Scary Movie, TV's “In Living Color”), Anne-Marie Johnson (Pursuit of Happyness), and Helen Martin (Kiss The Girls, TV's “227”), Hollywood Shuffle is written, produced & directed by Robert Townsend (Streets of Fire, The Five Heartbeats, The Mighty Quinn, A Soldier&#