Archive for the 'Film' Category
• December 13, 2013 •
Comments Off on That “Cartoon Scandal”: Episode 10, “A Door Marked Exit”
Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Acting, African American History, American Politics, Black Actors and Actresses, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Domestic Terrorism, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Race, Religion, Scandal, Sexuality, Television, Television Series
Tags: American Broadcasting Company, B6-13, Command, Cyrus Beene, Daddy Pope, Daniel Douglas Langston, Eli Pope, First Lady Mellie Grant, Fitz, Fitzgerald Grant, Gladiators, Huck, Jake Ballard, Joe Morton, Kerry Washington, Maya Pope, Mellie Grant, Momma Pope, Olivia Pope, Pope, President Grant, Quinn, Rowan, Sally Langston, Scandal, Shonda Rhimes, Wonderland
• December 12, 2013 •
Comments Off on Golden Globes Announced: “Twelve Years a Slave” and Kerry Washington in Contention
Posted in Acting, African American History, Africans, Awards, Black Actors and Actresses, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Consumer Fraud, Crime, Cultural History, Drug Culture/Industry, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Film, International Terrorism, Kenya, Love, People of Color, Race, Scandal, Slavery, Television, Television Series, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Captain Phillips", 12 Years a Slave, African, African Americans, American Hustle, Barkhad Abdi, Best Actor Drama, Best Director, Black Women, Blacks, Bradley Cooper, Bruce Dern, Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Golden Globes, Goodwife, Idris Elba, Inside Llewyn Davis, Judi Dench, Kenya, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael Fassbinder, Nebraska, Robert Redford, Sandra Bullock, Slave, Somali-American, Somalia, Steve McQueen, The Oscars, Wolf of Wall Street, Yemen
• December 9, 2013 •
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Posted in Acting, Class, Cultural History, Film, Love, Music, Sexuality, Soundtracks, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom, Women
Tags: "Christmas is All Around Me", "Love Actually", "The Atlantic", Atlantic, Bay City Rollers, Bill Nighy, Billy Mack, Christmas, Christmas Songs, Christopher Orr, Festering Turd, Grand Gesture, Looksism, Love is All Around, Movie Soundtrack, Music, Richard Curtis, Soundtrack, The Troggs, WetWetWet
• November 14, 2013 •
Comments Off on Filmmaker Ken Burns Says New Mayor Bill DeBlasio Will Settle With The Central Park Five
Posted in "Stop and Frisk", African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Chicanos/Latinos, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Democrats, Documentaries, Documentary, Film, History, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, National Issues, People of Color, Police Misconduct/Killings, Public Television, Puerto Ricans, Race, Rape, Rape/Sex Crimes, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: African Americans, Antron McCray, Bill de Blasio, Blacks, Central Park, Central Park Five, Central Park Jogger case, Constables on Patrol, David McMahon, Huffington Post, HuffPost Live, Josh Zepps, Ken Burns, Kevin Richardson, Korey Wise, New York City, Racism, Raymond Santana, Sarah Burns, The Nineties, Trisha Meili, United States, Yusef Salaam
• November 9, 2013 •
Comments Off on If You Miss The Latest “Scandal” Episode, You Can Always Catch Up with “Cartoon Scandal”
Posted in Acting, African American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Facebook, Fashion, Film, History, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Murder/Manslaughter, Music, Olivia Pope, People of Color, Sexuality, Television, The Iraq War II, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Torture, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Women
Tags: "Thriller", African Americans, Black Men, Black People, Black Women, Blacks, Common Sense, Cyrus Beene, Daws Butler, Drama, Facebook, Fitzgerald Grant, Huck, Interracial Love, Interracial Sex, Jake Ballard, Kerry Washington, LGBT, Marriage, Murder, Olivia Pope, Quinn, Romance, Scandal, Sex, Shonda Rhimes, Tony Goldwyn, United States
• August 13, 2013 •
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Posted in Black People, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Vehicular Manslaughter/Murder, Wisconsin, Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, AT&T, Black Women, Blacks, Department of Transportation, Distracted Driving, Documentary, Documentary film, Gary Busey, Green Bay Packers, Grizzly Man, Herzog, Indiana, Milwaukee, Murder, New York City, PSAs, Public Service Announcement, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Texting While Driving, The Eighties, The Seventies, United States, Utah, Valetta Bradford, Vermont, Werner Herzog, Wisconsin, Xzavier Davis-Bilbo
• August 12, 2013 •
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Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Class, Cultural History, Film, Health, Love, People of Color, Pregnancy/Pre-Natal Issues, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: African Americans, Amanda Lucas, Bill Moyers, Biracial Children, Biracials, Black Women, Blacks, California, Child, Children, Daughter, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Huffington Post, Katie, Lucas, Marcia Lucas, Mellody Hobson, Skywalker Ranch, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Van Morrison
• August 10, 2013 •
4 Comments
Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Acting, Arabs, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, European History, Film, Health, History, Indians/Bangladeshi/Pakistani, Islam/Sufism, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Protestant Denominations, Religion, World History
Tags: Diana, Diana Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed, Downfall, Hasnat Khan, Khan, Lady Diana Spencer, Naomi Watt, Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Oliver Hirschbiegel, The Princess of Wales, Westminster Abbey
• July 9, 2013 •
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Posted in Acting, African American History, Black Actors and Actresses, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, Health, History, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Love, Miles Davis, Music, Ray Charles, Stroke, Weather Report
Tags: "Mercy Mercy Mercy", African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, Buckinghams, Cannonball Adderley, Club DeLisa, Electric Piano, Fusion, Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Joe Zawinul, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Julian Edwin Adderley, Mercy, Miles Davis, New York, Ray Charles, Roy McCurdy, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States, Wayne Shorter, Wurlitzer Electric Piano
• July 8, 2013 •
Comments Off on Mr. Darcy (Er…Colin Firth Really) Rises From The Waters of The Serpentine
Posted in Acting, Arts, Books, Cable, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Drama, European History, Film, Gossip, History, Love, Public Television, Sexuality, Television, Television Series, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom, Women
Tags: "Pride and Prejudice", BBC, Cheshire, Colin Firth, Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Great Britain, Hyde Park, Hyde Park London, Jane Austen, London, London UK, Love, Lyme Park, Mr. Darcy, Regency Era, Serpentine, The Nineties, The Serpentine
• July 3, 2013 •
1 Comment
Posted in Acting, African American History, American History, American Politics, Black Actors and Actresses, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Differently-Abled, Drug Culture/Industry, Film, Health, History, Mental Health/Psychology, National Issues, New Orleans, Race, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: African Americans, Blacks, Burton, California, CNN, Geordi La Forge, Kunta Kinte, LeVar Burton, New Orleans, New York, Reading Rainbow, Roots, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Tim Wise, United States
• June 23, 2013 •
2 Comments
Posted in African American History, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Health, History, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Oprah Winfrey, OWN/Oprah Winfrey, Race, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
• June 23, 2013 •
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Posted in Africans, American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Books, Class, Classical History, Education, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Film, Health, History, People of Color, Race, Television, Women
Tags: African Americans, Ancient Greece, Bernal, Black Athena, Blacks, Cambridge University, Cornell University, Culture, Egypt, Greece, Martin Bernal, Oriental Studies, Phoenicia, Racism, Sinologist, Sinology
• June 16, 2013 •
Comments Off on Sidney Poitier as Seen by His Two Youngest Daughters on Father’s Day
Posted 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
• June 6, 2013 •
Comments Off on This Sista Has No Life After “The Red Wedding”
Posted in Acting, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, HBO, Love, Race, Sexuality, Television, Television Series, Women
Tags: "A Song of Ice and Fire", "Inglourious Basterds", A Storm of Swords, African Americans, Amanda Marcotte, Blacks, Game of Thrones, HBO, House Frey, House Lannister, House Stark, King of the North, Love, Memorial Day, Murder, Natural Born Killers, Quentin Tarantino, Red Wedding, Sex, Song of Ice and Fire, Talisa Maegyr, The Patriarachy, Westeros
• May 29, 2013 •
Comments Off on James Lipton of “Inside The Actors’ Studio”: I Was a Pimp in Paris
Posted in Acting, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, France, Late Night TV, Memoir, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women, World War II
Tags: Actors Studio, Barber, Black Panthers, Bordello, Hair Dye, Inside the Actors Studio, James Lipton, Lipton, Paris, Paris FRANCE, Pimp, Pimps, Post-World War II France, Prostitutes, Richard Pryor, Rite of Passage, Seine, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Snoop Dogg, The Beats, Tom Selleck, Virility
• May 13, 2013 •
1 Comment
Posted in Acting, African American History, Awards, Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Film, History, People of Color, Police Misconduct/Killings, Race, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: Academy Award, African Americans, Ariana Neal, BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant, Blacks, California, Cannes Film Festival, Cell Phone Videos, Cell Phones, Chad Michael Murray, Constables on Patrol, David Silva, Drama, Fruitvale, Fruitvale Station, Grant, Latinos, Love, Melonie Diaz, Michael B. Jordan, Motherhood, Murder, Octavia Spencer, Oscar Grant, Racism, Ryan Coogler, Sundance Film Festival, Weinstein Company, YouTube
• April 27, 2013 •
Comments Off on Live Stream of The 2013 White House Correspondents Dinner with President Obama and Conan O’Brien
Posted in Acting, American Politics, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Class, Cultural History, Fashion, Film, Food, Gossip, History, Journalism and Ethics, Obama Administration
Tags: African Americans, Barack Obama, Conan O'Brien, Dinner, FLOTUS, Gayle King, Geraldo Rivera, James Brolin, Kerry Washington, Kevin Spacey, Live Streaming, Meryl Streep, POTUS, President Barack Obama, President Obama, President of the United States, Scandal, The Media, Tony Goldwyn, White House, White House Correspondent, White House Correspondents Association
• April 2, 2013 •
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Posted in African American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Fashion, Film, History, Love, National Issues, Race, Sexuality, Sports, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: African Americans, Blacks, California, California Proposition 8, Coming Out, Cookie Johnson, Earvin Johnson, Earvin Johnson III, LGBT, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Lakers, Love, Magic, Magic Johnson, Marriage, New York University, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Sunset Strip, Tisch School of the Arts, TMZ, United States
• March 31, 2013 •
Comments Off on Saturday Night Music, March 30, 2013: “Just The Way You Are,” Billy Joel, 1978 (In Memory of Phil Ramone)
Posted in American History, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, History, Music, Soundtracks, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Just The Way You Are, "The Stranger", Billy Joel, CDs, Chick Song, Columbia Records, Dolby Laboratories, Duets, Elizabeth Weber, Elton John, George Martin, Grammys, Jack Arnold, Jazz, Joel, Karen Ichiuji Ramone, Liberty DeVitto, Linda Ronstadt, Love, Matthew Ramone, Music Producer, Naturalized American, New York, Optical Surround Sound, Paul Simon, Phil Ramone, Pop Music, Ramone, Simon Ramone, South Africa, The Eighties, The Seventies, William Ramone
• March 28, 2013 •
Comments Off on The Very Dead But Forever Beloved Richard Pryor is Coming Out With a New Compilation Album Soon and a New Documentary
Posted in African American History, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Drug Culture/Industry, Facebook, Film, History, Mental Health/Psychology, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: Compilation Album, Compilation CD, DVD, Marsha Warfield, Pryor, Richard Pryor, Shout Factory, Tribeca Film Festival, Whoopi Goldberg, YouTube
• March 11, 2013 •
Comments Off on Some Monday Love: “Thinking About Your Body (For Debs)” Bobby McFerrin, 1986
Posted in Black People, Bobby McFerrin, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Facebook, Film, Love, Public Television, Sexuality, Television
Tags: "Thinking About Your Body", Arts, Blue Note, BobbyMcFerrin, Debbie Green, Don't Worry Be Happy, Facebook, Joy, Live Album, Love, McFerrin, Music, Spontaneous Inventions, Wife
• March 7, 2013 •
Comments Off on Tina Turner is Becoming a Swiss Citizen for Love, Not for Evading American Taxes
Posted in African American History, American History, Black Expatriates, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Facebook, Fashion, Film, Love, Music, Religion, Sexuality, SGI Nichiren Buddhism, Spirituality, Switzerland, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Tina Turner, Travel, Women
Tags: American Citizenship, Armani, Capitol Records, Carl Jung, Chateau Algonquin, Craig Hill, Eduardo Saverin, EMI, EMI Germany, Erwin Bach, Europe, French Riviera, German, Germany, Ike Turner, Küsnacht, Kuesnacht, Long Term Relationship, Love, Millionaires, Nina Simone, Papparazzi, Phil Spector, Ronnie Turner, Soka Gakkai International - Switzerland, Swiss Bank Accounts, Switzerland, Taxes, Tina, Tina Turner, U.S. Citizenship, United States, Zurich
• February 2, 2013 •
Comments Off on Saturday Night Music, February 2, 2013: “Supernatural Thing, Parts 1 and 2” Ben E. King, 1975
Posted in Ben E. King, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, Music, Soundtracks
Tags: "Stand by Me", "Supernatural Thing", African Americans, Ahmet Ertegun, Atco Records, Atlantic Records, Average White Band, AWB, Ben E. King, Blacks, Ex-Drifter, Gwen Guthrie, Half Note Records, Singer, Stand by Me (film), The Drifters, The Seventies, United States, Wall of Sound
• November 24, 2012 •
Comments Off on Kevin Clash: Making Sense of a Tragedy
Posted in African American History, American Politics, Arts, Black Nerds, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Consumerism, Crime, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Facebook, Film, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Being Elmo", "Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey", "My Life as a Furry Red Monster", "Sesame Street", African Americans, Andrew Vachss, Big Bird, Bishop Eddie Long, Blacks, Cecil Singleton, Child Abuse, Children, Common Sense, Elmo, Facebook, Grooming, Growing Up, Homosexuality, Homosexuals, Jerry Sandusky, Jim Henson, Katherine Franke, Kevin, Kevin Clash, LGBT, Love, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Marriage, Michael Jackson, Mitt Romney, PBS, Puppetry, Rape, Sesame Workshop, Sex, Shannon Clash, Sheldon Stephens, The Closet, The Muppets, The New York Times, TMZ.com, United States
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