What is the value and meaning of Art?

Tomorrow we have the honor of video interviewing Tony “Candy Man” Todd for our THE SUNKEN PLACE black horror class.  I already have questions I want to ask him, and they center on a few different areas: career, role preparation, creating and sustaining an iconic character, the subtexts of contemporary horror, his own view on the “Candyman” phenomenon, his view of the genre  and how it has changed over the decades, and the road ahead.  Fear of black male sexuality and the way that fear was nur...