Category Archives: flicks
Heeeere’s Janet! The “For Colored Girls…” Movie Posters Debut
Here’s one of the series of character publicity posters for Tyler Perry’s upcoming film adaptation of Ntozake Shange‘s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf… You can see the rest of them by clicking here … Continue reading
Race, Fandom, and The Years of Living Mel-lessly
{I know the right way to approach the Mel Gibson story (if you don’t know about his racist, misogynistic outbursts caught on tape you might wanna read this first) is to be either hiply cynical (y’all sure he didn’t say … Continue reading
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Ladies and Gentlemen…Spider-Man is NOT the New Black…
So it seems as if Hollywood’s found it’s new Spider-Man, for the relaunch of the blockbuster franchise. Sadly it won’t be this guy, the former 30 Rock writer and Community actor/comedian, Donald Glover, who’d actually sorta campaigned for the part … Continue reading
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Hollywood’s Big Night
Quote of the Day: “You commie homo-loving sons of guns!” — Sean Penn, winning his second Best Actor Oscar I really enjoyed the Oscars last night. I know one’s not supposed to say that. It’s not hip or fashionable to … Continue reading
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Sashay Shantay! Jude with Attitude…
Jude Law…handsome, British, tabloid fodder, butt of GREAT Chris Rock joke at the Oscars a few years ago, now…transgendered SUPERMODEL? In a movie co-starring Dame Judi Dench??? Yup…pic here… I’d go see that movie. I hope Dame Judi is playing … Continue reading
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Goin’, uh, Batty?
Have you heard the one about the actor who loses it on the set? No? Well, I haven’t either. That’s cause it’s not a joke. Christian Bale (Batman in The Dark Knight, the lead in American Psycho) verbally rips into … Continue reading
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Fool Me Once…
Quote of the Day: “I’ve seen the future and it will be/I’ve seen the future and it works…” “The Future” by Prince I was recently “defriended” (“unfriended”?) by an old friend on Facebook. I don’t know why. I must have … Continue reading
WayBack Wednesdays: The Girl Most Likely To…
Quote of the Day: “I don’t steal and I don’t lie/But I can feel and I can cry/A fact I bet you never knew…” — “There Are Worse Things I Could Do” from Grease Long before the great Stockard Channing … Continue reading
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WayBack Wednesdays (On a Thursday): SPARKLE
Quote of the Day: “Living in a world of ghetto life/Everybody around seems so uptight…” — “Giving Him Something He Can Feel” by Aretha Franklin Well folks, now that the great celebrity photo op Inauguration business is behind us, maybe … Continue reading
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The SPB Q: Cheo Hodari Coker
Quote of the Day: “Sometimes your words just hypnotize me…” — “Hypnotize” by Notorious BIG I first met Cheo Hodari Coker a short time before he graduated from Stanford in the early 90s. He’s the nephew of one of my … Continue reading
