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SHOWTIME PRESENTS "10,000 BLACK MEN NAMED GEORGE"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SHOWTIME PRESENTS: "10,000 BLACK MEN NAMED 
GEORGE" ON 
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2002 at 8:00PM (ET/PT)

IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION
STARRING ANDRÉ BRAUGHER, CHARLES S. DUTTON AND MARIO VAN PEEBLES


The Story Of Civil Rights Champion Asa Philip Randolph
Robert Townsend, Director

NEW YORK, January 9, 2001 - On February 24th at 8:00 PM(ET/PT), in 
honor of 
Black History Month, SHOWTIME presents the Original Picture, "10,000 
Black 
Men Named George," starring André Braugher("Frequency," "Homicide: Life 
On 
The Streets" and SHOWTIME's "Love Songs"),Charles S. Dutton ("Roc," 
"The 
Corner," "A Time To Kill," "The Piano Lesson," SHOWTIME's "Blind Faith" 
and 
"Zooman") and Mario Van Peebles ("Ali," "New Jack City," SHOWTIME's 
"Riot" 
and "Rude Awakening").

This dramatic film is inspired by the life of black organizer, A. 
Philip 
Randolph (Braugher), an early champion of the Civil Rights movement. 
From 
1925 to 1937, Randolph led the railway car porters' bruising battle 
against 
the notoriously anti-union Pullman Company, one of the most powerful 
company's in the United States in the 1920's. His efforts helped create 
the 
first black union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

Charles S. Dutton portrays Webster, the union's Chicago-based 
organizer.
Mario Van Peebles plays Ashley Totten, one of the founding members of 
the 
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

Philip Randolph (Braugher) was an ardent socialist and publisher of a
struggling radical Harlem magazine called "The Messenger." Because
traditional trade unions such as the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
had not yet invited the black working-class to join in the 1920's, the
black labor movement was initiated by the railway porters who worked on
the sleeping cars for the Pullman company.  Although they were proud of
their profession, the porters were often humiliated and dismissed by 
the 
upper-class white passengers.  They were grossly underpaid. In the eyes 
of 
the Pullman Company and many of their patrons alike, the porters were 
not 
seen as individuals and were simply referred to "George" after the 
owner of 
the railway company.

10,000 BLACK MEN NAMED GEORGE is directed by Robert Townsend 
(SHOWTIME's 
"Love Songs," "The Five Heartbeats," "Streets of Fire") and written by 
Cyrus 
Nowrasteh (SHOWTIME's "The Day Reagan Was Shot"). Abby Mann (SHOWTIME's 
"Whitewash: The Clarence Brantley Story), André Braugher and the late 
Stan 
Margulies ("Dash and Lilly," "The Thorn Birds," "The Man Who Captured 
Eichmann," "Roots") served as executive producers.

André Braugher (A. Philip Randoph) has received an Emmy Award* for
Outstanding Actor for his portrayal of Detective Frank Pembleton on
"Homicide: Life on the Street."  Braugher made his directorial debut 
with 
one of the vignettes for the SHOWTIME trilogy "Love Songs."  His motion 
picture credits include "Frequency" starring Dennis Quaid, "City of 
Angels" 
with Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan, "Duets" opposite Gwyneth Paltrow, 
"Primal 
Fear" starring Richard Gere, Spike Lee's "Get on the Bus" and "Glory," 
the 
Oscar*-winning story of America's first unit of Black Soldiers during 
the 
Civil War.

Charles S. Dutton has appeared in films such as "Q & A" and "Cry the 
Beloved 
Country."  His other motion picture credits include Spike Lee's
"Get on the Bus," "Alien 3," "Nick of Time," "No Mercy," "Mississippi
Masala," "Jacknife," "Crocodile Dundee II," "The Distinguished 
Gentleman," 
"Menace II Society" and "Rudy."  On television, he has appeared in the 
title 
role of the series "Roc" which he also executive produced. He received 
two 
NAACP Image Award nominations for the Roc character, winning the award 
in 
1992.  Dutton also executive produced the critically- acclaimed series 
"Laurel Avenue." His other television acting credits includes "The 
Piano 
Lesson," Showtime's "Zooman" and the Emmy Award*-winning mini-series, 
"The 
Murder of Mary Phagan" with Jack Lemmon.

Mario Van Peebles most recent role was playing Malcolm X in Michael 
Mann's 
"Ali" starring Will Smith, Jon Voight and Jamie Foxx.  Van Peebles made 
his 
directing debut with "New Jack City" and also directed and acted in 
"Posse," 
"Panther," SHOWTIME's "Gang in Blue," and "Love Kills." He has been 
honored 
with an NAACP Image Award for acting in "Heartbreak Ridge" a Director's 
Guild Award nomination for an After School Special, "Malcolm Takes a 
Shot" 
and a CableACE Award nomination for "Third Oak: The Pool Hall" with 
James 
Earl Jones.








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