If Stephanie Riebel looks familiar, you could have seen her in a variety of places. She's had guest spots on Monk , Two and a Half Men , and she's also one of the stars of a new bisexual web series, Rose by Any Other Name . The series is from FenceSitterFilms , who was behind the Ally Sheedy / Ruby Dee film Steam , which also had a bisexual theme. Riebel plays a lesbian (Rose) who decides to date...
Turner Classic Movies is honoring five of its Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award recipients with a primetime movie marathon on the eve of the next "Screen Actors Guild Awards" presentation. On January 22nd, TCM will air four films which feature five award recipients, Stan Laurel, Jack Lemmon, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Kirk Douglas. The network airs Laurel's 1935 comedy short...
Turner Classic Movies is honoring five of its Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award recipients with a primetime movie marathon on the eve of the next "Screen Actors Guild Awards" presentation. On January 22nd, TCM will air four films which feature five award recipients, Stan Laurel, Jack Lemmon, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Kirk Douglas. The network airs Laurel's 1935 comedy short...
punctilious \puhnk-TIL-ee-uhs\ , adjective: Strictly attentive to the details of form in action or conduct; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.. Origin: Punctilious derives from Late Latin punctillum, "a little point," from Latin punctum, "a point," from pungere, "to prick." cocktail weenie A person obsessed with the minutiae of bartending practices and traditions,...
"Guiding Light" was one of the first soap operas to feature African-American actors in regular roles. In the mid-1960s, James Earl Jones and Billy Dee Williams had turns portraying Dr. Jim Frazier, while Cicely Tyson and Ruby Dee had runs as that character's wife, Martha.
If you like country/bluegrass/rockabilly this is a weekend for you to stick close to home. Tonight James Reams & The Barnstormers, a Brooklyn-based bluegrass band, kicks off the 12th Annual Park Slope Bluegrass & Old-Time Jamboree over at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture. The Jamboree continues tomorrow with workshops, jamming, clogging and concerts, with food available during the afternoon...
Dear Mr. Perry, I appreciate your commitment to giving Black folks jobs in front of and behind the camera, having opened the largest Black owned film production studio in the country in Atlanta last year. You own the rights to all of your films, which is not something most filmmakers can say. Your love and concern for Black people is undeniable, as proved yet again when you sent a group of Philly children...
Recently, along with 15 others, Sidney Poitier was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama as an “agent of change,” and so I went back to revisit his film canon and found an interesting surprise. Poitier’s great acting career reached its peak in the turbulent yet race-defining 1960s. However, he was at an artistic crossroads, a veritable career stalemate...
In addition to the DVD releases below, Sony will be releasing Mary Shelley's Frankenstein on Blu-ray on 13 October. There weren't any other exciting Blu-ray release announcements made, so I didn't create a section for it this time around. - Ace [ Asso ], 1981, d. Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia, MVD, 11 August , w. Edwige Fenech - Hot Dogs on Ibiza [ On est venu là pour s'éclater ],...
The films of legendary actors and activists Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee will be showcased at a two-day film festival that kicks off today in Harlem. The First Annual Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Film Festival is presented by Howard University’s John H. Johnson School of Communications and Woodie King Jr.’s New Federal Theater. Dean Jannette L. Dates said: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee are exemplars...
Different plot, different players and no Turnberry. THE OTHER NIGHT I WATCHED the Golf Channel’s presentation of “Duel in the Sun,” a 30-minute program about the classic showdown between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus at the 1977 British Open at Turnberry. Paired with Watson on the weekend, the Golden Bear shot 66-66. It wasn’t good enough. Watson’s 66-65 over the final...
After a nearly six year battle, Gay Iris Parker, one of Southern California ’s leading theatrical producers , succumbed to cancer here in Pasadena on June 24. She was 60. Her death occurred just before the opening of Crowns at the Pasadena Playhouse , a stage production of African-American women wearing different hats. Parker was instrumental in the show coming to life during its successful...
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