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Rest in Power, Richard Roundtree. The Dads take this moment to reflect on the crowning achievement of the great actor's cinematic career, one of the definitive Blaxploitation films with an iconic Isaac Hayes soundtrack, and an invaluable visual retrospective of a pre-Giuliani New York. The Mafia? Black Nationalists? Harlem drug kingpins? Our three Dads? None of them can face down the commanding presence of Richard Roundtree, without whom this film would be a mere footnote. This week: we're just talking about (Gordon Parks' 1972) Shaft, baby!