A Friendly Mario Van Peebles Update

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me what Mario Van Peebles was up to, I would still be in pretty much the same financial situation that I am now. Still, some good news for those rightly stoked by the younger Peebles’ next-to-last directorial outing, the fantastic Baadasssss!, from 2003. Per Daniel Robert Epstein, Peebles is shooting a documentary entitled Bring Your A Game, about the epidemic of young African-American high school dropouts. Says Peebles: “We’re taping interviews with people like Ice Cube, Damon Dash and other young people who respect why it’s important to get that education. If you [do], you can make your life last a long time.” Sounds somewhat interesting.