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Putney Swope - (Movie Clip) Mixed Media

Antonio Fargas (as "The Arab," best-known as Huggy from "Starsky and Hutch") performing a Muslim prayer and diatribe, in writer-director Robert Downey's advertising send-up Putney Swope, 1969.

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With the newly-deceased boss on the table in the board-room, executives (Stan Gottlieb, Ramon Gordon, Allen Garfield) elect the token black guy and title character (Arnold Johnson) in Robert Downey's Putney Swope, 1969.

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