Took my brother to see, "American Gangster" and I think he liked it, I know I did.

The theatre was fairly crowded.

Denzel Washington is one of my favorite actors, but I remember him saying something about never playing pimps, thugs and or gangsters. I know this is suppose to be a classy film, still...

Fred “The Hammer” Williamson, is also one of my favorite actors, too, remember, "Black Caesar?" Fred Williamson plays Tommy Gibbs, a street smart hoodlum who worked his way up from the bottom of the barrel to the crime boss of Harlem.

Williamson said in a cool documentary called, "Baadasssss Cinema,""NAACP and CORE - they're the ones who created this terminology, "black exploitation." That has to be clear, on the record. It came from them. It didn't come from the white press. ... Who was being exploited? All the black actors were getting paid. They had a job. They were going to work. The audience wasn't being exploited. They were getting to see things on their screen they'd longed for."