Entertainment

Tweet it: Join CBSPhilly and the City of Philadelphia for the 35th Annual Broad Street Run cbsphilly.com/broadstreetrun The City of Philadelphia Department of Parks & Recreation and CBS Radio Philadelphia are proud to announce a partnership for the Blue Cross Broad Street Run, taking place May 2-4. The five local radio stations will provide marketing,…

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Review by Kam Williams Born in the West Indies in 1761, Dido Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) was the product of the taboo union of Mary Belle, an African slave, and John Lindsay (Matthew Goode), a British ship captain. Upon Mary’s death, the concerned father brought his 8 year-old daughter to England to see whether his well-heeled…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  cartoonist Jackie Ormes – born Zelda Mavin Jackson.   By Tambay A. Obenson shadow and act.com Thus far, since I launched the “Consider *This Story* For Your Next Film Project” series of posts a year ago, two suggestions I’ve made have been set up for development in Hollywood. Most recently, just yesterday, it…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  McCall could provide action franchise fodder for Denzel Washington. “The audience will decide that,” he says. “The Equalizer” will be in theaters Sept. 26. By Tambay A. Obenson shadow and act.com Director Antoine Fuqua is featured in a USA Today profile of Sony Pictures’ adaptation of the TV series, The Equalizer, starring Denzel…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Ebony Magazine has announced that Mitzi Miller (pictured) is their new editor-in-chief, according to a recent press release.   By Hannington Dia news one Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) CEO Desiree Rogers announced that Miller will overtake the position in a Tuesday press release, according to The Huffington Post. “Mitzi is a gifted editor…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Taraji P. Henson as Catana Starks in the new inspirational biopic, “From The Rough.”   Interview with Kam Williams Taraji P. Henson earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress opposite Brad Pitt in David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.  She is a 2011 Emmy-nominee for Best Actress in a…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Bill Cosby  (Eugene Parciasepe / Shutterstock.com)   By Tambay A. Obenson shadow and act.com NBC and Don Mischer Productions announced today that Bill Cosby will be honored with the Johnny Carson Award for Comedic Excellence at the “American Comedy Awards,” which airs May 8 (9-11 p.m. ET/PT) on NBC. The Johnny Carson Award for…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Diahann Carroll and Marc Copage in the 1960’s sitcom, ‘Julia.’   By Tambay A. Obenson shadow and act.com In the upcoming fourth season of the Emmy-nominated series, “Pioneers Of Television,” PBS will explore trailblazing moments of TV history, featuring a lineup that includes an episode titled “Breaking Barriers,” which airs on Tuesday, April…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Jill Scott and Chadwick Boseman in a scene from ‘Get On Up.’   By Tambay A. Obenson shadow and act.com USA Today published a story on Universal Pictures’ James Brown biopic, Get on Up, adding some *color* to what we know of the project thus far, which is that it would be a…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Audra McDonald as Billie Holiday in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” while holding Roxie.  (AP Photo/Jeffrey Richards Associates, Evgenia Eliseeva)   Associated Press By Mark Kennedy NEW YORK — One of the supreme honors this Broadway season is to go to Circle in the Square, close your eyes and hear a…

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