Shaft's Father Passes
By Ed Driscoll · March 8, 2006 10:03 AM
· Hollywood, Interrupted
Gordon Parks, the man who directed the seminal "blaxploitation" movie, Shaft, was 93. Like Stanley Kubrick, he traded a brilliant career as a magazine still photographer for the movie world.
Parks' son had a similar talent, directing Shaft's equally potent successor, Superfly in 1972. Sadly, he died only a few years later in a plane crash.
Update: Scott Johnson of Power Line has more.
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