Edwin Moses documentary to debut Sept. 21 at his alma mater, Morehouse College
A documentary exploring how Edwin Moses blended science with athleticism to become the worldโs greatest hurdler in the 1980s, then parlayed his fame into a mission to fight for better pay and fair sports, will debut Sept. 21 at his alma mater at the Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival.
Auburn star apologizes to Morgan Freeman after thinking actor was Ole Miss fan trying to rattle him
Auburnโs Johni Broome met one of his favorite movie stars and had to apologize to Morgan Freeman for how it happened.
Andre Braugher, Emmy-winning actor who starred in 'Homicide' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' dies at 61
Andre Braugher, the Emmy-winning actor best known for his roles on the series โHomicide: Life on The Streetโ and โBrooklyn Nine-Nine," has died.
Democrat Brandon Presley seeks big turnout in Nov. 7 bid to unseat Mississippi's Republican governor
Democrat Brandon Presley is trying to block Republican Gov. Tate Reeves from winning a second term in Mississippi.
From Cooper to Spielberg, stars turn out for AFI Awards
From Bradley Cooper to Steven Spielberg, some of Hollywoodโs brightest stars came together to relax and sip wine in a fancy ballroom where everyone ended up walking away a winner at the American Film Institute Awards on Friday.
'Dolphin Tale' fans mourn death of film's star Winter at 16
Amy Carmichael lives more than 4,000 miles from the Florida aquarium that housed Winter, the โDolphin Taleโ movie star with a prosthetic tail who died this week at age 16.
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Mississippi blues promoter and raconteur Bill Luckett dies
Bill Luckett was an attorney, small-town mayor, candidate for Mississippi governor, storyteller, blues promoter and business partner and friend of Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman.
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Fonda says Hollywood needs more diversity after Globes honor
In this video grab issued Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, by NBC, Jane Fonda accepts the Cecil B. deMille Award at the Golden Globe Awards. (NBC via AP)LOS ANGELES โ Just like in her career, Jane Fonda used the Golden Globesโ platform to speak on deeper issues calling for greater diversity in Hollywood while praising the โcommunity of storytellersโ as she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award. While wearing an all-white suit, Fonda raised the Globesโ highest honor above her head Sunday before commending storytellers for their vital role in troubled times. She is the daughter of Oscar winner Henry Fonda, who died in 1982, and sister of Peter Fonda, who died in 2019. She launched IndieCollectโs Jane Fonda Fund for Women Directors, an organization aimed to support the restoration of films helmed by women from around the world.
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Jane Fonda to receive Golden Globes' Cecil B. DeMille Award
FILE - Actress Jane Fonda appears at the 71st international film festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 12, 2018. The Golden Globes will bestow the Cecil B. DeMille Award to Fonda during the 78th annual awards show next month. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES โ Jane Fonda cemented herself into Hollywood allure as a chameleonlike actor and social activist, and now the Golden Globes will honor her illustrious career with its highest honor. Fonda will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 78th annual awards ceremony on Feb. 28, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Tuesday. She launched IndieCollectโs Jane Fonda Fund for Women Directors, an organization aimed to support the restoration of films helmed by women from around the world.
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Principal Joe Clark, who inspired film 'Lean on Me,' dies
At crime- and drug-ridden Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, Clark expelled 300 students in a single day for fighting, vandalism, abusing teachers and drug possession. President Ronald Reagan offered Clark a White House policy adviser position after his success at the high school. Morgan Freeman starred as Clark in the 1989 film โLean on Meโ that was loosely based on Clarkโs tenure at Eastside. He also wrote โLaying Down the Law: Joe Clarkโs Strategy for Saving Our Schools,โ detailing his methods for turning around Eastside High. ___This story has been corrected to show that the county of the school Clark taught at is in Passaic County, not Essex County.
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Online fall Broadway play revivals attract starry casts
NEW YORK โ Broadway theaters may be dark, but there will be plenty of new online productions of some of classic plays this fall with some starry self-isolating actors, including Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Laura Linney and David Alan Grier. Producer Jeffrey Richards on Wednesday unveiled a weekly play run of livestreamed works to benefit The Actors Fund. They will stream on Broadwayโs Best Shows and ticket buyers can access the events through TodayTix starting at $5. David Mametโs โRace" is up on Oct. 29, starring David Alan Grier and Ed OโNeill. Mametโs โBoston Marriageโ is slated for Nov. 12 with Patti LuPone and Rebecca Pidgeon.
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A sweep for โSchittโs Creek,โ โSuccessionโ tops Emmy Awards
(The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP)LOS ANGELES โ โSchitt's Creek,โ the little Canadian show about a fish-out-of-water family, made history at Sunday's Emmy Awards with a comedy awards sweep, something even TV greats including โFrasierโ and โModern Familyโ failed to achieve. The awards for Pop TV's โSchitt's Creekโ included best comedy series and trophies for its stars, including Catherine O'Hara and father-son Eugene and Daniel Levy. Moments later, his son won the award for comedy writing for โSchitt's Creekโ episode, then shared a directing award and captured the supporting actor comedy trophy. As โSchittโs Creekโ gobbled up comedy awards, that left acclaimed โInsecureโ and its creator Issa Rae empty-handed. But Black stories, Black performances and Black Lives Matter,โ he said, urging Kimmel to shout with him.
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Spicoli to the rescue with 'Fast Times' virtual benefit
LOS ANGELES โ Spicoli is making a virtual return to Ridgemont High to raise money for a pair of non-profit groups. Sean Penn, a cast member in 1982's โFast Times at Ridgmont High," will be joined by Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and other stars in a socially distanced reading of the film's script. Penn is handing the role of stoner Jeff Spicoli over to another actor, with details about who's playing what part to be unveiled at next week's event. None of those actors, nor Roberts or Aniston, appeared in the original film. It will be available on Facebook Live and TikTok via COREโs Facebook page, www.facebook.com/CoreResponse.
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Black soldiers monument faces scrutiny amid racial reckoning
Workers inspect the top cornice stone as it is lifted from the Shaw 54th Regiment memorial opposite the Statehouse, Friday, July 17, 2020, in Boston. Amid the national reckoning on racism, the memorial to the first Black regiment of the Union Army, the Civil War unit popularized in the movie "Glory, is facing scrutiny. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Black soldiers monument faces scrutiny amid racial reckoning
Amid the national reckoning on racism, the memorial to the first Black regiment of the Union Army, the Civil War unit popularized in the movie "Glory, is facing scrutiny. White commander out front; Black soldiers in the background. Itโs the first thing you see.โAmid the national reckoning on racism, the Shaw memorial is the latest and, perhaps, one of the more curious to receive scrutiny. Unlike other felled monuments, the work by American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens isnโt a paean to the Confederacy. Saint-Gaudens spent 14 years creating a richly detailed bas relief, using Black men of different ages as models for his realistic soldiers.
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โLean On Me,โ โLovely Dayโ singer Bill Withers dies at 81
โLean on Me,โ a paean to friendship, was performed at the inaugurations of both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. โAinโt No Sunshineโ and โLean on Meโ are among Rolling Stoneโs list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. โBill Withers is the closest thing black people have to a Bruce Springsteen.โHis death caused a torrent of appreciation on social media, including from former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, who said Withers' music has been a cherished part of her life. "Bill Withersโ songs are among the most treasured and profound in the American songbook โ universal in the way they touch people all over the world, transcending genre and generation. And Bill seemed to understand, intrinsically and instinctively, how to do that,โ Sting said in โStill Bill,โ a 2010 documentary of Withers.
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Gray hair, donโt care: Cuts and color lead to home travails
This combination of photos released by Kody Christiansen shows him before, at left, and after coloring his hair in New York. Stylists shipping out kits of personalized color with promises to talk their regulars through the process via FaceTime. Memes and real-life stories are flying about cuts gone bad and the onslaught of gray hair, along with out-of-control eyebrows, sad lash extensions and overdue nail work. I don't care if I die as long as my hair is blonde in that coffin." I don't relax my hair, but I do color it and there's no way in the world that I'm attempting that at home,โ she said.
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Sesame's Count wants to get young children counted in census
ORLANDO, Fla. โ No age group was undercounted as much during the last once-a-decade census as children under 5, researchers say. Sesame Street is hoping to use Count von Count to change that. The spots encourage parents of young children to make sure they and their children are counted in the 2020 census. Demographers estimate that 4.6% percent of children under 5, or 1 million children, weren't counted in the 2010 census. I think thatโs really, really good because certainly the children are the future," said Stephen Buckner, a senior executive at the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Two-time Emmy-nominated actress Paula Kelly has died at 77
LOS ANGELES, Calif. โ Actress, singer and dancer Paula Kelly, who earned an Emmy Award nomination on the sitcom โNight Courtโ and co-starred with Chita Rivera and Shirley MacLaine in the film โSweet Charity,โ has died. Kelly died Sunday of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to Los Angeles' Ebony Repertory Theatre. Kelly earned a best supporting actress Emmy nod in 1984 for portraying public defender Liz Williams on the first season of NBC's โNight Courtโ and received another in 1989 for playing a lesbian on the ABC miniseries "The Women of Brewster Place." Kelly made her Broadway debut in the 1964 musical โSomething More!โ directed by Jule Styne and starring Barbara Cook. Her other film credits include โThe Andromeda Strain,โ โTop of the Heapโ and โSoylent Green.โ Her vast TV credits also include โSanta Barbara,โ โMission: Impossible,โ โKojakโ and โThe Golden Girls.โ
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Lincoln Center in New York City to honor Spike Lee in April
NEW YORK, NY โ Spike Lee will receive Film at Lincoln Center's 46th Chaplin Award. Lincoln Center announced Thursday that the 62-year-old filmmaker will be honored in its annual fundraising gala on April 27. For its 50th anniversary last year, Lincoln Center skipped a Chaplin Award honoree and instead hosted a special gala that featured Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodovar, Tilda Swinton and others. The four previous Chaplin Award winners were Helen Mirren, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Robert Redford. Lee's last film, "BlacKkKlasman" was nominated for six Oscars including best picture.
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Annette Bening to receive AARP Movies for Grownups award
LOS ANGELES, CA โ Annette Bening will receive AARP the Magazine's lifetime achievement honor at the Movies for Grownups Awards next year. The magazine announced Tuesday that Bening will accept the career achievement award at the ceremony on January 11, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California. The 19th annual Movies for Grownups Awards will air January 19 on PBS. Bening won Golden Globe awards for best actress for the 2004 film "Being Julia" and 2010's "The Kids Are All Right." Previous career achievement honorees include Shirley MacLaine, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro.
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Boundary-pushing Dave Chappelle receives Mark Twain award
WASHINGTON, DC โ Dave Chappelle has built a career on pushing boundaries and challenging social conventions. Rapper and actor Common praised Dave Chappelle's bravery and sociological influence. Musician John Legend paid tribute to Chappelle's passion for music and determination to use his influence to spotlight different artists. At the height of his fame, Chappelle organized "Dave Chappelle's Block Party" โ a movie built around an all-star concert featuring Legend, the Roots and a reunion of The Fugees. Chappelle spoke with reverence about the Mark Twain prize and the "art form" of stand-up comedy.