Archive for the 'Television Series' 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 •
Comments Off on That “Cartoon Scandal”: Episode 9, “YOLO”
Posted in Black People, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Domestic Terrorism, Love, Michael Jackson, Murder/Manslaughter, Music, Olivia Pope, People of Color, Sexuality, Television, Television Series, The Jackson 5/Michael Jackson, The Rest of the World
Tags: African Americans, American Broadcasting Company, B6-13, Baby Huck, Black Women, Blacks, Drama, Fitz, Gladiators, Huck, Interracial Love, Interracial Relationships, Jake, Kerry Washington, Latinos, Olivia, Olivia Pope, Olivia Pope Associates, OPA, Pope, Quinn, Scandal, Television, Torture, Wisconsin, Yolo
• November 29, 2013 •
Comments Off on Amber Riley (from “Glee”) Becomes The Seventeenth Season Winner of “Dancing With The Stars”
Posted in Black Actors and Actresses, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Health, Music, Reality Shows, Television, Television Series
Tags: "Dancing with the Stars", 17th Season, ABC, African Americans, Amber Riley, B-Lister, Black Women, Blacks, California, Charleston, Corbin Bleu, Derek Hough, DWTS, Encouragement, Freestyle, Glee, Hines Ward, Karina Smirnoff, Knee Injury, Knees, Kristi Yamaguchi, Los Angeles, Mercedes Jones, Mirror Ball Trophy, New York, Obstacles, Painkillers, Pro, Professional Dancer, Riley, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth
• November 29, 2013 •
Comments Off on In Case, You Are Wondering, It’s Thanksgivukkah…
Posted in American History, Class, Cultural History, Food, Holidays, Immigration, Jews, Religion, Russia, Scandal, Sports, Television Series, The Rest of the World
Tags: Christmas, Eastern Europe, Egg Nog, Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, Holidays, Jewish holidays, Jews, Kale, Menurkeys, Mustard Greens, Pumpkin Pie, Seleucid Empire, Thanksgiving, The Gilded Age, Turkey, United States, Wisconsin
• November 22, 2013 •
Comments Off on That “Cartoon Scandal”: Episode 8, ‘Vermont Is For Lovers, Too’
Posted in American Politics, Black Actors and Actresses, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Cultural History, International Terrorism, Journalism and Ethics, Murder/Manslaughter, Political Malfeasance, Scandal, Sexuality, Television, Television Series
Tags: African Americans, American Broadcasting Company, Baby Huck, Black Women, Blacks, Cyrus, Drama, First Lady Mellie Grant, Fitzgerald Grant, House, LGBT, Love, Mama Pope, Marriage, Murder, Olivia Pope, Olivia Pope Associates, Olivitz, OPA, Pope, President Fitzgerald Grant, Quinn, Scandal, Sex, Team Jake, Television, The Wild Thing, Thursday Nights, Vermont, Vermont Is For Lovers
• November 16, 2013 •
Comments Off on That “Scandal Cartoon”: Episode 7, ‘Everything’s Coming Up Mellie’
Posted in American Politics, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Drama, Fashion, Health, History, Mental Health/Psychology, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Pregnancy/Pre-Natal Issues, Rape, Sexuality, Television, Television Series, Women
Tags: "Everything's Coming Up Mellie", "The Wendy Williams Show", Acting, Bellamy Young, Big Jerry Grant, Christmas, Drama, First Lady Mellie Grant, Fitzgerald Grant II, Forced Impregnation, Gladiators, Haters, Hating, Kerry Washington, KevOnStage, Marriage, Pope, Quinn, Rape, Republicans, Scandal, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Shonda Rhimes, Tony Goldwyn, Twitter, United States
• 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 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
• August 12, 2012 •
Comments Off on Some Sunday Love: The Friends of Distinction, “Going in Circles,” 1969
Posted 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
• March 11, 2012 •
4 Comments
Posted 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
• July 28, 2011 •
1 Comment
Posted 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
• July 14, 2011 •
3 Comments
Posted 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
• June 13, 2011 •
Comments Off on Tracy Morgan: It Wasn’t Humor or Free Speech, It Was Hate and An Apology Is Too Little Too Late
Posted 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
• May 28, 2011 •
Comments Off on 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
Posted 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
• April 30, 2011 •
Comments Off on That Brother in The “Detectives” Nicorette Gum Commercial
Posted 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
• April 3, 2011 •
Comments Off on A Little Sunday Music: Spanky and Our Gang, “Sunday Mornin'”
Posted 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
• March 23, 2011 •
17 Comments
Posted 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
• February 18, 2011 •
Comments Off on Comic Actor Kenneth Mars, 75, Dies; Played in “Young Frankenstein,” “The Producers” and “What’s Up, Doc?”
Posted 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
• December 19, 2010 •
Comments Off on Christmas Songs: “Silver Bells,” From The Film “The Lemon Drop Kid”
Posted in Race, Music, Memoir, Television, Film, Crime, Class, People of Color, American Foreign Policy, China, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Holidays, Acting, Comedy, Cultural History, 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
• October 16, 2010 •
Comments Off on The Beaver’s Mom, Barbara Billingsley, Dies at 94
Posted 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
• September 9, 2010 •
Comments Off on Why Nichelle Nichols Stayed On As Uhura in “Star Trek”
Posted in Black People, Race, Music, Memoir, Celebrities/Royals, Women, Television, Love, Sexuality, Film, Class, Acting, Arts, Drama, African American History, American History, Cultural History, Television Series, Nichelle Nichols
Tags: Sex, African Americans, Blacks, Star Trek, William Shatner, Majel Barrett, Gene Roddenberry, Racism, Love, Creepin', NAACP, Black Women, Race, Los Angeles CA, Saint of the Sixties, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Interracial Relationships, Decision, Lt. Uhura, Commander Nyota Uhura, The Original Series", Starship Enterprise, Savas Abadsidis, "Reflections", Dr. King, UCLA, "Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories", Kiss, First Interracial Kiss on TV, Extramarital Relationships
• August 30, 2010 •
Comments Off on Only One Black Emmy Winner This Year; But Archie Panjabi Won
Posted 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
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