It was in January when I penned and published a piece for this site titled "Tim Story: The Top-Grossing Black Director Many Apparently Still Aren't Familiar With," in which I tackled a question posed by the Los Angeles Times: Will "Think Like A Man" Put Tim Story On Hollywood's A list? That Los Angeles Times article was published 2 years ago, after that film shocked the industry with an impressive opening weekend, en route to a near-$100 million box office cume. In short, to summarize my response, I made a case for investigating the system within which Story works, and its history, for answers, adding that, the fact that the question was being asked in...
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