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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 12:32 pm: | 
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The moniker “renaissance man” is perhaps overused, but I really can’t think of another way to decribe journalist/author/producer/director/man about many towns Nelson George. That’s a lot of slashs for one East New York raised dude, but the fact that he does each with perfection is enough to make a roomful of posers pissed on sight.
As New York as a George Gershwin song played by Bobby Short, as Harlem as a Chester Himes novel directed by Woody Allen, as Brooklyn as a Biggie Smalls track produced by Danger Mouse, as international as a black Bond, the brother is everywhere. Still, no matter how busy the man is, there has never been a time when he couldn’t spare a few moments to give yours dearly a little insight on whatever old R&B legend I might be writing about at the time.
Damn, even in the midst of promoting his 2007 HBO film Life Support (which he wrote and directed), the brother still found time to school me on the DeBarge family drama for my then upcoming Vibe feature “Broken Dreams,” which will be reprinted next year in the Best African-American Essays 2009 edited by Debra J. Dickerson and Gerald Early. From a man who has jiggy folks like Jamie Fox, Chris Rock and Queen Latifah on his speed dial, color this “colored” (lets thank Lindsay Lohan for bringing the word back) brother impressed.
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