The first African American male to win an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Louis Gossett Jr. is a highly acclaimed American actor, best known for his versatile performances across film, television, and stage. Born on May 27, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York, Gossett grew up in a creative environment; his father was a porter and his mother was a nurse’s aide. Gossett discovered his passion for acting at an early age and attended New York University on a basketball scholarship, where he initially studied acting.
I watched, for the first time, the 1979 United Artists comedy/drama/anti-war/musical “Hair” on Netflix DVD. A Vietnam War draftee, Claude Hooper Bukowski, visits New York City a few days before his draft board appointment. Here he meets and befriends a group of hippies and falls in love with a rich high society girl. The movie is based on the 1968 Broadway musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. The film has a lot of differences in plot from the musical.
