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Black Women Writers Ruling Broadway This Season

By Tambay A. Obenson
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September 22, 2011 8:52 AM
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Just thought I'd toast to what just may be a historical moment (theater geeks can correct me if I'm wrong on this); This season will see 3 Broadway shows (the highest level of commercial theatre/stage achievement in this country) penned/adapted by black women.

By Sergio
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September 22, 2011 8:26 AM
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Brother, this chick can't catch a break can she? Well she has, but definitely not in the way she expected. Her first big role in a big budget major motion pictures in a while and then this happens.

By Monique
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September 22, 2011 7:15 AM
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Recently I had the chance to chat with actor Souléymane Sy Savane of the upcoming film, "Machine Gun Preacher". So far on its festival circuit, the film has received a standing ovation and praise among critics. Here at Shadow and Act the peripheral issue of “Sam Childers” the real life main protagonist [of the film] portrayed by Gerard Butler has been the subject of heated debate, with the sentiment among many being that this is just another one of Hollywood’s “Great White Hope” movies. I spoke with Souléymane about that subject as well as the overall subject-matter of the film and the ongoing social strife in places like the Sudan and his homeland, The Ivory Coast.

By Tambay A. Obenson
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September 22, 2011 7:06 AM
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You saw the official first poster this morning; now here's the first official trailer for the heist thriller titled, Man On A Ledge, which stars Sam Worthington, as an ex-cop-turned-con who threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, when the NYPD dispatches a female police psychologist to talk him down; but, unbeknown to the police officers, the suicide attempt is really a cover for "a massive diamond heist."

By Tambay A. Obenson
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September 22, 2011 6:45 AM
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Aargh! I certainly didn't expect to exit a screening of Lars Von Trier's latest exercise in misery (Melancholia, which I'm still trying to reach some conclusion on, and will review later) to find this on my virtual desk.

By Vanessa Martinez
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September 22, 2011 6:33 AM
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According to an exclusive Variety report, Tyler Perry will begin production on The Marriage Counselor next month. However, no word has been released yet on the casting, although, we should find out soon enough. The film will be based on Perry's 10th stage play.

By Sergio
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September 22, 2011 4:46 AM
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How did this past by us? Oh well you can't be everywhere all the time, but last Friday ABC Family announced it that was cancelling Raven Symone's new series State of Georgia, which ran this past summer, due to poor ratings. According to the sources the show, about a struggling actress with a huge ego who moves to New York to jump start her career, drew less then half of the viewers than her previous hit for the network That's So Raven.

By Vanessa Martinez
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September 22, 2011 2:49 AM
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Reuiniting for the first time after Devil In A Blue Dress, Don Cheadle joins Denzel Washington in the sky-set thriller Flight, directed by Robert Zemeckis (Castaway, Back To The Future, Forest Gump) and written by Jon Gatings.

By Vanessa Martinez
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September 22, 2011 2:10 AM
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This is another official selection of the 2011 Heartlant Film Festival (Oct 14-22). The Country Club, directed by Jace Freeman and produced by The Moving Picture Boys, "follows one 12-year old boy struggling to find hope despite heavy rains, instability, and a future unknown."

By Sergio
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September 22, 2011 2:10 AM
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Steve Martin, who, of course, has hosted the Oscar Awards program a few times in the past, and who has been one of the better hosts, has written an open letter on his website to Eddie Murphy offering him some sage advice for his upcoming Oscar hosting gig.

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