Coming out on DVD in March -- Room 222!!!!


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Stars came out to help Tyler Perry celebrate his grand opening of his movie and tv studio in Atlanta. Huge move for him and the black community.

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Know how I know? Because someone would have said something about Melvin Van Peebles showing up on the series yesterday--!

Son Mario Van Peebles has been making appearances on the show since the beginning of the year as prosecutor Samuel Woods who's running for a senate seat (basically he's playing AMC's version of Senator Obama), with his latest ( Read more... )

BEST QUOTE from Shonda Rimes:

''Do I want to see any more shows where someone has a sassy black friend? No, because I'm nobody's sassy black friend. I just want to see shows in which people get to be people and that look like the world we live in.''

The five-page article starts at http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20206185,00.html

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Close in age and both having acted pretty much all their lives, in another universe, Kadeem Hardison is equally as famous as Patrick Dempsey, with just as many opportunities to anchor a series and/or movie and portray a romantic leading man or hero. Hardison has serious acting chops, but has had precious few chances to show these off. That said, it ( Read more... )

Article about the re-mounting of decades-old classic plays with black actors now playing some or all of the roles--with some for it, some against it.

I say, make whatever adjustments are necessary for reality's sake--as Debbie Allen's production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" has done (the main character, Brick, is a fading professional football player ( Read more... )

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I wrote a letter to Time magazine in response to their article on ABC's Cashmere Mafia and NBC's Lipstick Jungle, Becoming Ms. Big, by James Poniewozik (for which there's also a Tuned In blog entry and an iTunes podcast, Women in Power, and TV) and its sidebar, Reality Check: Women, Work and Money, by ( Read more... )

OK, Will Smith is on the cover of Entertainment Weekly this week, for their 50 Smartest People in Hollywood article. See, okay picture:


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The most beautiful Black man alive?

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