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EPISODE · Apr 30, 2019 · 47 MIN

INNING FIVE, BINGO LONG

from From Left Field · host JJ Summers

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings is a 1976 sports comedy film about a team of enterprising ex-Negro League baseball players in the era of racial segregation. Loosely based upon William Brashler's novel of the same name, it starred Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones and Richard Pryor. Directed by John Badham, the movie was produced by Berry Gordy for Motown Productions and Rob Cohen for Universal Pictures, and released by Universal on July 16, 1976. The film was a box office success, grossing $33 million on a $9 million budget. Ronnita L. Miller is a member of Damn Gina (B. Iden Payne Rudy Kloptik Award for Outstanding Improv Troupe winners 2016) and appears in BETA and WE ARE both on the Issa Rae Presents YouTube Channel. Greg Williams is one of the stars of I AM TX. When he's not holding his Chief and TheDoomsdayDevice persona at bay, he is living his film life on 10. His blog about this movie can be found here: https://doomonfilm.tumblr.com/post/184392193788/thoughts-the-bingo-long-traveling-all-stars

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