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ABOVE PHOTO: Tessanne Chin. UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — No one is more surprised by the results of Tuesday’s “The Voice” finale than season five winner, Jamaican powerhouse Tessanne Chin. “It is out of body,” Chin said, holding her trophy backstage after the NBC singing competition. “I feel like, is this really happening, you know? This can’t…

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Sony Pictures has just released the first image of Denzel Washington (above photo) in next year’s action thriller The Equalizer. Based on the popular 1980’s CBS series (which was a real favorite of mine back then) and starring the late British actor Edward Woodward as the Equalizer, in the film Washington plays “a solitary, monastic…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Naomie Harris as Winnie Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. To witness Naomie Harris become Winnie Mandela in Justin Chadwick’s upcoming film adaptation, Mandela: Long to Freedom, is to witness true cinematic transformation. So, when Harris told me that she didn’t know much about Winnie Mandela before the role was offered to her,…

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eurweb.com More awards for Fox Searchlight’s 12 Years a Slave – this time among the New York Film Critics Online, which on Sunday voted it best film, best actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor, and best supporting actress for Lupita Nyong’o. Fruitvale Station helmer Ryan Coogler picked up the award for Debut Director. A complete list of…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Secretary of State John Kerry, with the 2013 Kennedy Center honorees, from left, seated Shirley MacLain, and Martina Arroyo, along with Teresa Heinz Kerry. Standing are Billy Joel, Carlos Santana, and Herbie Hancock, pose for a photo at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors gala dinner on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013…

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Kasi Lemmons continues to tantalize creatively with her thought provoking body of work. Her work as an actress includes roles in Silence of the Lambs opposite Jodie Foster, and Spike Lee’s School Daze, as well as Hard Target, Fear of a Black Hat, Candyman and Vampire’s Kiss.

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Russell Baze’s is stuck in a dead-end job at a rural Pennsylvania steel mill rumored to be closing soon. He’s not in a position to abandon the Rust Belt in search of greener pastures, between having to care for his terminally-ill, widowed father and a kid brother, Rodney Jr., suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

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At 10:30AM on Tuesday morning, Kim Fields said hello to the latest addition to their family; a baby boy. Fields kind of stole the spotlight from Halle Berry over the summer, who surprised many by announcing she was pregnant at the age of 47.

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With the Thanksgiving holiday falling about as late as possible this year, the typical year-end glut of film releases is on an abbreviated schedule. Perhaps for that reason, a healthy percentage of award-friendly movies have already come our way, including 12 Years a Slave…

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Nelson “Mandiba” Mandela (Idris Elba) secretly started writing his autobiography “Long Walk to Freedom” while still serving what he had every reason to believe might very well be a life sentence on Robben Island. The lawyer-turned-spokesman for the outlawed African National Congress had been…

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