Richard Roundtree said of his role in "Shaft": "It put me on the map." (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Richard Roundtree lent his velvet voice and cool cat stride to one of the most influential ...

Staff at Stax Records’ headquarters, at 926 East McLemore Avenue in South Memphis, were elated. Released on Stax’s Enterprise subsidiary, Isaac Hayes’ soundtrack to the movie Shaft had become their ...

There’s bad trash – those summer movies on the order of “M:I2” and “Gone in 60 Seconds,” whose cardinal emotional effect on filmgoers is the feeling that they’ve been bludgeoned to death by the ...