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*Star Wars director George Lucas has gotten engaged to his longtime (black) girlfriend, Mellody Hobson, according to the Huffington Post. Lucas is 68 and Hobson, who has an impressive resume in her own right, is 43. She is the president of a successful Chicago-based investment management firm, Ariel Investments LLC; and regularly appears on ABC‘s [...]
*The highest paid black director in Hollywood is still one of the most underrated and unknown people in the industry, but “Think Like A Man” should put him on the map, right? One Los Angeles Times blogger doesn’t think Tim Story has the pull yet to make that impact. The director has directed five other [...]
*It’s been three months since Whitney Houston’s funeral, but there was something about the way it was done that everyone remembers. Watching such a high profile funeral take place at home; back in the neighborhood where it all started with little to no controversy. Even with every star imaginable showing up for the funeral, the [...]
*You might recognize the gorgeous actress Keesha Sharp as the sultry, sexy man trap Gigi on the hit TBS sitcom “Are We There Yet?” She’s also made viewers laugh as Monica Charles Brooks on “Girlfriends” (for which she was nominated for an NAACP Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress); and as the next door neighbor Sheila [...]
*Salli Richardson Whitfield is remembered by many as a more than capable actress with visual beauty of show-stopping proportions. But Salli has proven time and time again that she is far more than just a pretty face, as was illustrated in the hit indie film “I Will Follow” (available on DVD, Aug. 23, 2011). Though [...]
*The path to Hollywood success is long, treacherous and filled with blind curves, winding passes and mammoth potholes. But the strong of will and those resilient in spirit are able to see their dreams come to fruition, and the fate of the weak? That, dear friends, is a story for another day. But on this [...]
*On Friday, May 6 the film “Jumping the Broom” will be released to theaters nationwide. Recently Lee Bailey had the chance to participate in a press junket where the equal parts powerful and beautiful entertainment mogul Tracey Edmonds and veteran director Salim Akil were on hand to talk about the film, its cast and everything [...]
*Philadelphia’s director of public housing took a leave of absence from his duties back in August to clear up some personal matters of his own. Allegedly, he had to go home and grab up his belongings because his home was going into foreclosure. But, it appears that he wasn’t being as forthright as the city thought; his stories [...]
*Ava DuVernay has worked in the world of film as a marketer and publicist for more than 14 years, forming DVA Media + Marketing in 1999. Her award-winning firm has provided strategy and execution for more than 80 film and television campaigns for acclaimed directors such as Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Michael Mann, Robert Rodriguez, [...]
*Mariah Carey tells E Online that she’s dying to follow up her role in “Precious” with a part in any film directed by fellow New Yorker, Woody Allen. “I’ve never met him, but ‘Bullets Over Broadway’ is one of my favorite movies ever,” Carey says of her “dream director.” “I can quote every word.” In [...]
*How in all that is holy in the city of Kirov, in central Russia, do you step your behind into a sauna that is so boiling hot that you could end up on the menu at a restaurant somewhere? The temperature in this “plunge pool” must’ve been so high that these two Russian gentlemen lost their flesh almost [...]
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