May 24, 2013

Chris Tucker’s ‘Playbook’: ‘One of the Most Important Roles I’ve Ever Done’

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*In “Silver Linings Playbook,” Chris Tucker and Bradley Cooper play close friends who meet when they are both patients in a psychiatric hospital. Cooper’s Pat Solitano, a former schoolteacher, is sent there for eight months as part of a plea bargain. He caught his wife showering with another man and nearly beat the man to [...]




Chris Tucker Finds a ‘Silver Lining’ in his Hollywood Hustle

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*Chris Tucker will be back in theaters this fall in the comedy/drama “Silver Linings Playbook,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month and won the event’s top prize – the People’s Choice award. [Scroll down for the trailer.] [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Previous winners of the TIFF’s People’s Choice award [...]




Lenny Kravitz on Hunger Games’ 99 Percent Factor

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*Any film as pervasively popular as “The Hunger Games” will inevitably be infiltrated by politics. The movie raked in more than $155 million in its first weekend, but some conservatives circles are already shunning the story as pro “99 Percent” – the moniker taken on by a grass roots movement of U.S. citizens who are [...]




Racists Upset Over ‘Hunger Games’ Because Two Characters are Black

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*Unfortunately racism has reared its ugly head at the box office in the form of the smash hit movie “The Hunger Games.” In the film Amandla Stenberg and Dayo Okeniyi landed the roles of Rue and Thresh, respectively (Are you a fan of EURweb? Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter.) But the [...]




Lenny Kravitz Talks Hunger Games, Bond with Star Jennifer Lawrence

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*Even if you have zero interest in “The Hunger Games,” it’s nearly impossible to escape the media hype surrounding its long-awaited premiere this Friday. Based on a series of books by Suzanne Collins, the story is set in the future, where North America has become the nation of Panem and is comprised of 12 Districts. [...]




Vanity Fair Brings in Diversity with Paula Patton and Adepero Oduye

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*The Hollywood issue of Vanity Fair is almost here and fans can expect a star studded page-turning book in March. This year, Paula Patton and Adepero Oduye (writer/director of “Pariah”) are featured in the predominantly white magazine. The publication has been sharply criticized for its lack of diversity and has since introduced a more colorful [...]