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*Queen Latifah has just been added to the star-studded cast of Lifetime’s all-black remake of “Steel Magnolias.” She’ll play M’Lynn, the character portrayed by Sally Field in the 1989 feature film of the same name. Condola Rashad will play her diabetes-stricken daughter, Shelby, played previously by Julia Roberts, and Rashad’s mother Phylicia will take on [...]
*Tupac Shakur was one of the best hip hop artists, arguably the best hip hop artist, that the world had ever seen. For a long time, there were many conspiracy theories that he was living on an island in the Caribbean living like the elusive Makaveli pseudonym he assumed to write his last album. Now [...]
*Katori Hall’s Olivier Award-winning drama The Mountaintop, which recently extended its run at Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre through Jan. 22, 2012, may play beyond that date. Angela Bassett portrays the mysterious Camae opposite Samuel L. Jackson as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the production, which is directed by Tony Award nominee Kenny Leon [...]
*The cable network Lifetime is not just developing an update of the 1989 Julia Roberts film “Steel Magnolias,” but it’s changing its racial makeup as well. Deadline.com is reporting that the original movie, also starring Sally Field, Dolly Parton and Olympia Dukakis in the story of a group of Louisiana women, will be remade with [...]
*Alicia Keys is expanding her business portfolio to include Broadway. The singer, whose hits include “Fallin’” and “A Woman’s Worth,” will help produce Lydia R. Diamond’s play “Stick Fly” this fall, reports the Associated Press. The work is a contemporary comedy of manners revolving around an affluent black family whose insecurities gradually reveal themselves during [...]
*Even though I was a young teen during the disco era, there was one voice that impressed me unlike no other – Evelyn Champagne King. A budding teen herself, King became the belle of the ball with hit tracks like the iconic “Shame,” Love Come Down,” and “I’m in Love.” After a run on the [...]
*It’s now official. Samuel L. Jackson will make his Broadway debut starring as Dr. Martin Luther King in the Broadway production of the new play, The Mountaintop, by Katori Hall directed by Tony Award Nominee Kenny Leon (Fences, A Raisin in the Sun). Jackson had long been rumored to star in the production, which opened [...]
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