Archive for the 'Television Series' Category
Sidney Poitier as Seen by His Two Youngest Daughters on Father’s Day
• June 16, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in Acting, African American History, Arts, Black Actors and Actresses, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Class, Cultural History, Education, Film, Holidays, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Japan, Love, People of Color, Television, Television Series, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom
Tags: Bill Cosby, Diahann Carroll, Joanna Shimkus, KBE, New York, Poitier, Sidney Poitier, Sir Sidney Poitier, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, The Bahamas, Tisch School of the Arts, UNESCO
This Sista Has No Life After “The Red Wedding”
• June 6, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in Black People, Race, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Women, Television, Love, Sexuality, Film, Class, Acting, Cultural History, Television Series, HBO
Tags: Sex, African Americans, Blacks, Murder, Love, HBO, "Inglourious Basterds", Quentin Tarantino, Memorial Day, Game of Thrones, A Storm of Swords, Red Wedding, Natural Born Killers, Amanda Marcotte, Talisa Maegyr, House Stark, House Frey, House Lannister, "A Song of Ice and Fire", Westeros, King of the North, The Patriarachy, Song of Ice and Fire
Some Sunday Love: The Friends of Distinction, “Going in Circles,” 1969
• August 12, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Music, Music Videos, Public Television, Race, Religion, Television, Television Series, The Friends of Distinction, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: African Americans, Arts, Barbara Jean Love, Blacks, Butler, California, Charles Manson, Ed Sullivan Show, Fifth Dimension, Floyd Butler, Friends of Distinction, Grazing in the Grass, Harry Elston, Hugh Masekela, Isaac Hayes, Jessica Cleaves, Jim Brown, LGBT, Manson Family, Music, Music Videos, Satanic Bible, Stonewall Riots, Television, The Sixties, United States
Whitney Houston: The Daughter, The Singer, Her Life and Her Lover(s)
• March 11, 2012 • 4 CommentsPosted in Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Class, Cultural History, Drug Overdoses, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Protestant Denominations, Sexuality, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Whitney Houston, Women
Tags: "Oprah's Next Chapter", Accident, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobby Brown, Brandy Norwood, Forbes, Gary Houston, Homicide, Houston, L.A. County Coroner, Oprah Winfrey, OWN Network, Pat Houston, Ray J, TMZ, Whitney, Whitney Houston
Looks Like a Winner, But We’ll See: Eddie Murphy, Gabourey Sidibe, Ben Stiller and Alan Alda Star in Fall Film Offering, “Tower Heist”
• July 28, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in Acting, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, Gabourey Sidibe, Love, People of Color, Sexuality, Television, Television Series, The Economy
Tags: "Shadow and Act", Action, African Americans, Alan Alda, Ben Stiller, Billionaires, Black Women, Blacks, Brett Ratner, Casey Affleck, Cinema Blend, Comcast, Comedy-Drama, Da Vinci Code, Daddy Day Care, Deals, Eddie Murphy, Films, Gabourey Sidibe, Imagine, Investors, Matthew Broderick, Movies, Pensions, Retirement Fund, Revenge Film, Ron Howard, Series TV, Sex, Shysters, Television, Tower Heist, TV Series
That “That’s For Babies” Cheerios Commercial
• July 14, 2011 • 3 CommentsPosted in Class, Commercials, Food, Love, Television, Television Series, Women
Tags: "That's For Babies", Artificial Sweetener, Big G, Business, Cheerios, Children, Fake Sugar, General Mills, Growing Up, Hanna-Barbera, Honey Nut Cheerios, House, Kayla Colbert, Mother, Motherhood, Parent, Pat Benatar, Rylie Colbert, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Single Parent, Sugar, TV Commercials, Twinkles the Magic Elephant, Yogi Bear
Tracy Morgan: It Wasn’t Humor or Free Speech, It Was Hate and An Apology Is Too Little Too Late
• June 13, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Black People, Bullying/Juvenile Crimes, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Domestic Violence, Drug Culture/Industry, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, People of Color, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexual Harassment, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: "30 Rock", "Bossypants", Aberration, African Americans, Anus, Barack Obama, Black Women, Blacks, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, Child Abuse, Chris Rock, Comedians, Comedy, Common Sense, Drug Culture, Emmy Award, Gays, Hate Speech, Heterosexual, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Kevin Rogers, Lenny Bruce, LGBT, Lorne Michaels, Love, Murder, Penis, Prison Behavior, Racism, Rape, Richard Pryor, Ryman Auditorium, Saturday Night Live, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Sin, SNL, SNL Alumni, Street Culture, Subjective, The Eighties, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, United States, Vaginas, Whiteness
The Ancestors Welcome Poet-Singer-Musician Gil Scott-Heron, Known For “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”; Father of the Spoken Word Movement and a Progenitor of Hip Hop
• May 28, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American Politics, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Commercials, Cultural History, Drug Culture/Industry, Environmental Crimes, Hate Crimes, Homelessness, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Joblessness, Music, National Issues, Race, Revolutions, Television, Television Series, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Winter in America", African American, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, Alec Wilkinson, Blacks, Brenda Sykes, Brian Jackson, Chuck D, Drug Addict, Drugs, Gia Scott-Heron, Gil Scott-Heron, I'm New Here, Jamaica, Jamaican Ancestry, Kanye West, Musician, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, New York, New York City, Racism, Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Ron Carter, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States, We Almost Lost Detroit
That Brother in The “Detectives” Nicorette Gum Commercial
• April 30, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Class, Comedy, Commercials, Crime, Cultural History, Television, Television Series
Tags: "Dave", "Malcolm in the Middle", "The Bold and The Beautiful", African Americans, Arts, Blacks, Cartwright, Chiat Day, Dan Martin, Dave Kovic, Double, Duane Stevenson, Fringe, Kevin Kline, New York, Nicorette, Shark, Ving Rhames
A Little Sunday Music: Spanky and Our Gang, “Sunday Mornin’”
• April 3, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Cancer, Class, Cultural History, Health, Love, Music, Sexuality, Spanky & Our Gang, Television, Television Series, Who I Am, Wisconsin
Tags: "Sunday Mornin'", Cass Elliot, Dancing in the Street, FM, Folk Rock, Growing Up, Hippies, Intimacy, iPod, John Seiter, Left Coast, Love, Malcolm Hale, Mercury Records, Mornings, Oz Bach, Paul Bach, Perry Como, Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Spanky and Our Gang, Spanky McFarlane, Sundays, The Left Coast, The Midwest, The Right Coast, The Sixties, United States
That “Hey, Marcel” AT&T Commercial
• March 23, 2011 • 17 CommentsPosted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Comedy, Commercials, Cultural History, People of Color, Sports, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Dark Ride", Andrea Bogart, AT&T, AT&T U-Verse, Black Man, Cable Channels, Commercial, Commercials, General Hospital, Ghost Whisperer, Hey Marcel, Latino, Marcel, Marcel Marceau, Marcello Mastrioanni, My Multiview, Sophia Loren, Syfy, Television, TV Commercial, You Tube
Comic Actor Kenneth Mars, 75, Dies; Played in “Young Frankenstein,” “The Producers” and “What’s Up, Doc?”
• February 18, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, Arts, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Film, Television, Television Series
Tags: "The Producers", "What's Up Doc", "Young Frankenstein", Adolf Hitler, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Character Actor, Franz Liebkind, Hans Wilhelm Friedrich Kemp, Hugh Simon, Kenneth Mars, Mel Brooks, Smile Train, Will Ferrell, Woody Allen
Christmas Songs: “Silver Bells,” From The Film “The Lemon Drop Kid”
• December 19, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, American Foreign Policy, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, China, Class, Comedy, Crime, Cultural History, Film, Holidays, Memoir, Music, People of Color, Race, Television, Television Series, Weather
Tags: "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", "White Christmas", Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Brooklyn, California, Carol Richards, Children, Christmas, Christmas Season, Christmas Songs, Crime, Damon Runyon, English, Hip Hop, Jay Livingston, Jazz Era, KGO-7, KGO-TV, Korea, Lawrence Welk, Lemon Drop Kid, Manhattan, Marilyn Maxwell, Michael Jackson, Midtown, Musical Comedies, Muzak, Nat King Cole, Prohibition, Racism, Ray Evans, Roger Grimsby, Television, The Sixties, TV, Wrestling
The Beaver’s Mom, Barbara Billingsley, Dies at 94
• October 16, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, American History, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Fashion, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Airplane", "Leave It to Beaver", "Ward, Barbara Billingsley, Eddie Haskell, Embarrassment, Fred Rutherford, Hollywood, Hugh Beaumont, I'm Worried About the Beaver", I. Magnin, I. Magnin's, Jerry Mathers, Jive, June Cleaver, Los Angeles Times, Lumpy, Memoir, Middle Class White America, Mom, Mother, Pearls, Pre-Feminism, San Francisco, Santa Monica California, Shame, Sherman Billingsley, Suburbia, The Beaver, The Fifties, The Middle Class, The Stork Club, Theodore Cleaver, Tony Dow, United States, Wally Cleaver, Ward Cleaver, White American Boyhood, White Suburbia, Wikipedia
Why Nichelle Nichols Stayed On As Uhura in “Star Trek”
• September 9, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, African American History, American History, Arts, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Drama, Film, Love, Memoir, Music, Nichelle Nichols, Race, Sexuality, Television, Television Series, Women
Tags: "Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories", "Reflections", African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, Commander Nyota Uhura, Creepin', Decision, Dr. King, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Extramarital Relationships, First Interracial Kiss on TV, Gene Roddenberry, Interracial Relationships, Kiss, Los Angeles CA, Love, Lt. Uhura, Majel Barrett, NAACP, Race, Racism, Saint of the Sixties, Savas Abadsidis, Sex, Star Trek, Starship Enterprise, The Original Series", UCLA, William Shatner
Only One Black Emmy Winner This Year; But Archie Panjabi Won
• August 30, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, Arts, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Comedy, Commercials, Cultural History, Drama, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Indians/Bangladeshi/Pakistani, Late Night TV, People of Color, Public Television, Race, Reality Shows, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: "Bend It Like Beckham", "Inspector Lewis", "The Good Wife", Acting, Actress, African Americans, Americans, Andre Braugher, Archana Kaur Panjabi, Archie Panjabi, Blacks, British, Britons, Camera Operator, CBS, Columbia, Daniel Craig, Hector Elizondo, Hector Ramirez, Inclusiveness, Isaiah Mustafa, James Bond, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Smits, Latinos, NBC, Old Spice, People of Color, Person of Color, Record Nominations, Ricky Gervais, Sikh, Sofia Vergara, The Emmys, Wanda Sykes
This is Your Mind on Drugs: Richard Pryor in Full Sail, Circa 1980
• July 25, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in Acting, African American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Crime, Cultural History, Drug Culture/Industry, Late Night TV, Mental Health/Psychology, Race, Television Series, Women
Tags: "Silver Streak", "Stir Crazy", Cocaine, Coke, Crack, Drug Abuse, Freebasing, Gene Wilder, Interview, Johnny Carson, Lily Tomlin, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, Pryor, Richard Pryor, Suicide Attempt, Sunset Boulevard, The Eighties, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Peter Fernandez, the English Voice of the Original Speed Racer and His Brother Racer X, Passes
• July 15, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Fiction Writing, Memoir, Celebrities/Royals, Television, The Rest of the World, Film, Class, Japan, Cancer, Sports, Children's Shows, Acting, Cultural History, Television Series, Anime Cartoons
Tags: Drama, Growing Up, The Sixties, NBC, The Seventies, Japan, Children, San Francisco, Hollywood, Actor, Japanese, Writer, Director, Voices, Broadway, Peter Fernandez, Voice Actor, Radio, "Speed Racer", Rex Racer, "Astro Boy", "Mr. District Attorney", Pulp Fiction, "Courage the Cowardly Dog", The Galaxy Rangers, Anime, Cartoon, KBHK TV, Channel 44, Corinne Orr, "City Across the River", Voice Overs, Voice, Trixie, Sprytle, Chim-Chim, Pops Racer
2010 Emmys Announced: Braugher, “Endgame,” “Treme” Nominated
• July 8, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, African American History, American Politics, Arts, Awards, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cooking, Cultural History, Documentary, Drama, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Fashion, Film, Love, Public Television, Race, Reality Shows, Television, Television Series, Women
Tags: "Breaking Bad", "Brick City", "Endgame", "Pressure Cooker", "Treme", African American History, African Americans, Andre Braugher, Awards Show, Barack Obama, Bill Maher, Blacks, California, Children, Emmy, Emmys, Gian Carlo Esposito, Los Angeles CA, President Barack Obama, Racism, Sofia Vergara, The Emmys, Wanda Sykes
Kevin Eubanks Leaves “The Tonight Show”
• May 29, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Late Night TV, Music, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: African Americans, Art Blakey, Bandleader, Blacks, California, Conan O'Brien, Gay, Instrumentals, Jay Leno, Jazz, Kevin Eubanks, Lesbian, LGBT, Music, Musical Conductor, Musician, NBC, Percussionist, Sidekick, The Chin, The Tonight Show, Vicki Randle
Gary Coleman, 42, Joins the Ancestors
• May 28, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in Acting, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Differently-Abled, Mental Health/Psychology, Race, Reality Shows, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Avenue Q", "Different Strokes", "People Magazine", African Americans, Brain Hemorrhage, Child Actor, Child Star, Death, Gary Coleman, Provo UT, Utah
Preview of “Treme,” Fifth Episode: “Shame, Shame, Shame”
• May 8, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Cultural History, Drama, Homelessness, Hurricanes, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Television, Television Series, Women
Tags: "Treme", African Americans, Blacks, Cable, Community, Disaster, Drama, HBO, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Survivors, Hurricanes, Katrina, Musicians, New Orleans, New Orleans LA, New Orleans Police Department, Picking Up the Pieces, Preview, Rebuilding, Republicans, TV Series
Leonard Nimoy to Retire
• April 22, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, Arts, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Drama, Film, Love, Memoir, Nonfiction/Essays, Race, Science, Sexuality, Space The Final Frontier, Television, Television Series
Tags: "El Shaddai", Children, Commander Spock, Growing Up, In An Alternate Universe Spock Kisses My Hand", Leonard Nimoy, Love, Retired, Retirement, Science Officer Spock, Spock, Star Trek, To Retire
The “Nightline” Faceoff: Why Can’t a Successful Black Woman Find a Man, with Sherri Shepherd, Jacquie Reid, Hill Harper, and Jimi Izrael
• April 22, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Education, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Public Intellectualism, Race, Religion, Sexuality, Television, Television Series, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: "Nightline Faceoff", "What Can't a Successful Black Woman Find a Man?", Atlanta GA, Black Couples, Black Families, Black Heterosexuality, Black Relationships, Black Women, Chocolate City, Discussion, Divorce, Expectations, Hill Harper, Jacquie Reid, Jimi Izrael, Marriage, Sherri Shepherd, Single Black Women, Steve Harvey, Vicki Mabrey
The Lane Bryant Ad ABC and Fox Didn’t Want Their Prime-Time Viewers to See
• April 21, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in Big Beautiful Women, Class, Commercials, Consumerism, Cultural History, Fashion, Health, Love, Reality Shows, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Women
Tags: BBW, Beauty, Big Beautiful Women, Big Girls, Big Women, Cacique, Commercial, Fat, Healthy Women, Lane Bryant, Lingerie, Plus Size Women, Queen Size Women, The Stupid, TV Commercial, Underwear
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