Entertainment

ABOVE PHOTO:  Michael B. Jordan in Creed. Interview with Kam Williams Michael Bakari Jordan is considered one of Hollywood’s brightest young actors. He garnered critical acclaim for his sterling portrayal of Oscar Grant in Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, a searing account of a slaying by police officers on a San Francisco train platform. Produced by…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Mary J. Blige  (Photo:  Joe Seer / shutterstock.com) By Mesfin Fekadu associated press NEW YORK — R&B star Mary J. Blige is hoping she can offer love and support to those who “are sitting in their car in traffic about to jump out and kill somebody or kill themselves” with a positive and…

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By Sergio Shadow and Act When did it happen exactly? Was it the increasingly ridiculous and illogical story lines and plot twists? Or was it, as some claim, when the show just got “way too gay” for the general viewing audience? Or was it that sex scene with Gabourey Sidibe that caused so much discussion?…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Charlie Sheen  (Photo: Tinseltown / shutterstock) By Frazier Moore associated press NEW YORK — Former “Two and a Half Men” star Charlie Sheen has HIV. In an interview Tuesday on NBC’s “Today,” the 50-year-old actor said he tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS about four years ago, but that, thanks to…

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Opening Nov. 25 From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema comes award-winning filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s  Creed. The film reunites Coogler with his star Fruitvale Station star  Michael B. Jordan as the son of Apollo Creed, and explores a new chapter in the Rocky story, starring Academy Award nominee Sylvester Stallone in his…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Marian Anderson Awards host Soledad O’Brien with honoree Wynton Marsalis and  Misty Copeland.  (Photo: Bill Z. Foster)   By Denise Clay “Excellence itself is a form of protest.” It was with that sentence that Wynton Marsalis ended his acceptance speech for the 2015 Marian Anderson Awards Tuesday night at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Lamman Rucker stars as the handsome but troublesome Darryl Graham in the new crime drama/mystery ‘The Man in 3B’.   Review by Kam Williams It doesn’t take long for Darryl Graham (Lamman Rucker) to start rubbing people the wrong way after he returns to his ‘hood in a rough section of South Jamaica,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Tamar Braxton and her ‘Dancing’ partner Valentin Chmerkovskiy.   By Lynn Elber associated press LOS ANGELES — Tamar Braxton has taken herself out of the competition on “Dancing with the Stars” because of illness. Series producer BBC Worldwide Productions said Wednesday that Braxton asked to withdraw from the ABC TV dance contest for…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Debi Thomas in a scene from OWN’s ‘Iyanla Fix My Life’ ‘Iyanla Fix My Life’ traveled to a small town in Virginia to work with the former Olympian. Last Saturday night’s “Iyanla Fix My Life” (on OWN) was another heart tugging tear jerker that featured former Olympic figure skater Debi Thomas. Thomas, in…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Alice Walker (insert)   Interview with Kam Williams Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her third novel, “The Color Purple,” which was made into an internationally popular film by Steven Spielberg. Her other best-selling novels, which have been translated into more than two dozen languages, include “By the…

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