TV & Film
For iPad/iPhone users: Actor/comedian Brandon T. Jackson, who you probably know best from Roll Bounce or Tropic Thunder (unless you were one of the unfortunate few to see Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, is heading to the Arlington Improv near Dallas this weekend. But he wanted to share more than that with the listeners […]
Aleebo is back with another bootleg movie review. This time he’s telling us about new movie starring Kevin Hart, Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone,…
This weekend cheesesteaks and po’boys are on the line if you’re betting on football. The New Orleans Saints and the Philadelphia Eagles square up for the NFC wild card game, pitting not just teams, but cities with great cultural traditions, against each other. If you don’t have a dog in that race, then check out […]
NEW YORK (AP) — An MSNBC host apologized to Mitt Romney‘s family Tuesday after she and guests on her show joked about a Christmas picture that showed the 2012 Republican presidential candidate’s adopted, African-American grandson. Melissa Harris-Perry said her intention was to celebrate diversity, but the segment took an unexpected and offensive turn when she […]
NEW YORK (AP) — James Avery, the bulky character actor who laid down the law at home and on the job as the Honorable Philip Banks in “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” has died. Avery’s publicist, Cynthia Snyder, told The Associated Press that Avery died Tuesday in Glendale, Calif., following complications from open heart surgery. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson chose not to quack back. In one of his first chances to comment on the dust-up surrounding his outspoken father and co-star Phil Robertson, the younger Robertson had only kind words for the A&E network and New Year’s wishes for the nation in an appearance Tuesday […]
MILAN (AP) — The Italian distributor of the film “12 Years a Slave” has apologized for promotional posters attacked as racist for featuring Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender, despite their relatively minor roles, and not the film’s star, Chiwetel Ejiofor. BIM Distribuzione said in a statement Monday the “inappropriate materials have now been withdrawn” and […]
If you don’t already have “The View” co-host Sherri Shepherd’s book Plan D: How To Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes (Even If You Don’t Have It) you might as well pick up a copy to start the New Year off right. The book is available in paperback tomorrow. As Shepherd has lost 20 more pounds […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A&E landed in the middle of America’s culture wars when “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson sounded off on gays and the Bible. The channel quickly found there was no safe ground. It was pilloried for allowing a man who equated gays with hell-bound sinners like adulterers to have a national TV […]
Nelson Mandela achieved against immeasurable odds. He was first an activist leader in the African National Congress, spearheading the eventually successful effort to dismantle apartheid. Then he spent almost 30 years in jail, came home and became the first elected Black president of South Africa. Mandela’s incredible journey is told in the new biopic Mandela: […]
Popular 90s R&B girl group SWV is back in a major way with their new reality show “SWV Reunited.” With the show premiering on January…
Somehow Porsha Stewart – a granddaughter of late civil rights leader Hosea Williams – got to the age of 32 believing that the Underground Railroad was an actual train. On Sunday night’s episode of the “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” the ladies took a trip to Savannah, where they embarked upon a Freedom Trail tour, visiting […]
