In the past seven decades, veteran actress Leslie Uggams has had an illustrious acting career in movies and TV shows. Leslie Uggams is an American actress and singer known for playing supporting roles in television and film. The octogenarian actress first appeared on television at age 6 as Ethel Waters’ niece on Beulah (1950). Born in New York City on May 25, 1943, Leslie Uggams developed a love for performing. She’s a Juilliard School and Stella Adler Studio of Acting alumni. On the Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout series, Leslie Uggams plays Betty Pearson, a Vault 33 governing council member. Betty
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- 5/16/2024
- by Onyinye Izundu
- TVovermind.com
Tony Sokol Oct 4, 2019
Richard Rodgers wrote a musical for Diahann Carroll to star in after hearing her sing on The Tonight Show.
Pioneering TV, film and stage actor Diahann Carroll, who broke barriers as the star of the 60s series Julia, died of Friday in Los Angeles at 84 due to cancer, according to the Associated Press.
Carroll performed on stages in Las Vegas nightclubs, Broadway theaters, and feature film adaptations like Carmen Jones and Porgy & Bess before she was cast in the title role on the comedy Julia. Her character was the first time an African-American was cast as the star of a show in a non-servant role. Julia Baker was a nurse raising a young son as a single mother following the death of her husband in the Vietnam War. The series ran for 86 episodes on NBC between 1968 and 1971.
Carol Diahann Johnson was born in the Bronx, but grew up in Harlem,...
Richard Rodgers wrote a musical for Diahann Carroll to star in after hearing her sing on The Tonight Show.
Pioneering TV, film and stage actor Diahann Carroll, who broke barriers as the star of the 60s series Julia, died of Friday in Los Angeles at 84 due to cancer, according to the Associated Press.
Carroll performed on stages in Las Vegas nightclubs, Broadway theaters, and feature film adaptations like Carmen Jones and Porgy & Bess before she was cast in the title role on the comedy Julia. Her character was the first time an African-American was cast as the star of a show in a non-servant role. Julia Baker was a nurse raising a young son as a single mother following the death of her husband in the Vietnam War. The series ran for 86 episodes on NBC between 1968 and 1971.
Carol Diahann Johnson was born in the Bronx, but grew up in Harlem,...
- 10/4/2019
- Den of Geek
Just weeks after the April 12th release of his third solo LP The Hurting Kind, John Paul White, formerly one-half of Grammy-winning duo the Civil Wars, embarks on the East Coast leg of a U.S. tour. Kicking off May 3rd in Asheville, North Carolina, stops on the two-week trek include Washington, D.C., Boston, and New York, before wrapping up in Atlanta on May 17th.
White, who recently debuted the forthcoming album’s “The Long Way Home,” a bright, muscular track, notes that unlike the gothic folk and acoustic...
White, who recently debuted the forthcoming album’s “The Long Way Home,” a bright, muscular track, notes that unlike the gothic folk and acoustic...
- 2/26/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Three years after releasing his post-Civil Wars solo debut, John Paul White has announced details of his next solo album, The Hurting Kind, which will be released April 12th on White’s Single Lock Records.
Featuring vocal contributions from Lee Ann Womack, Erin Rae, and the Secret Sisters, White’s forthcoming album was co-produced alongside the Alabama Shakes’ Ben Tanner and recorded a variety of studios in White’s native Muscle Shoals region. The Hurting Kind also finds White co-writing with legendary Nashville songwriters like Bobby Braddock and Whisperin’ Bill Anderson.
Featuring vocal contributions from Lee Ann Womack, Erin Rae, and the Secret Sisters, White’s forthcoming album was co-produced alongside the Alabama Shakes’ Ben Tanner and recorded a variety of studios in White’s native Muscle Shoals region. The Hurting Kind also finds White co-writing with legendary Nashville songwriters like Bobby Braddock and Whisperin’ Bill Anderson.
- 1/18/2019
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
What happened to Hattie McDaniel's Oscar award? After McDaniel died from breast cancer in 1952 at the age of 57, the award was supposed to be donated to Howard University, per her will. The university, however, has no official record of it ever being received. McDaniel beat costar Olivia de Havilland to win Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Scarlett O'Hara's maid Mammy in the 1939 Civil War epic Gone with the Wind. So what happened then to that historic Oscar after McDaniel's death? While Howard can't confirm it ever passed through, it's possible, if not likely, that the university received the award,...
- 2/27/2016
- by Chancellor Agard, @chancelloragard
- PEOPLE.com
Hattie McDaniel: Best Supporting Actress Oscar competition and missing Academy Award plaque (See previous post: “Hattie McDaniel Oscar Speech.”) Besides Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind, the 1939 Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominees were Geraldine Fitzgerald for Wuthering Heights, Edna May Oliver for Drums Along the Mohawk, Maria Ouspenskaya for Love Affair, and Olivia de Havilland for Gone with the Wind. It should be noted that de Havilland, who, according to some, was not at all happy at having lost the Oscar, had much more screen time than Hattie McDaniel. In fact, de Havilland had lobbied David O. Selznick to list her as a lead actress, alongside Vivien Leigh. Selznick, however, balked, fearing that de Havilland might steal away votes from her fellow Gone with the Wind player. In the next decade, Olivia de Havilland would receive four more Academy Award nominations, all in the Best Actress category, including...
- 8/21/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
A Fake Moon rises over Bristol at the Ibt festival, Philip Pullman's I Was a Rat! scurries into Birmingham, and James McAvoy tackles the Scottish play in London
North
The big opening this week is Roger McGough's new version of Molière's The Misanthrope at Liverpool Playhouse, which should be fun. Theatre meets music gigs in 154 Collective's Dancing With the Orange Dog, which is at Stockton Arts Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Hairspray is out on tour again and is at the Lowry in Salford. In Manchester, meanwhile, Queer Contact celebrates the best in Lgbt art and culture this weekend. The moving first-world-war drama, The Accrington Pals, continues at the Exchange. David Copperfield begins at the Oldham Coliseum tonight. This looks intriguing: at Haphazard at Z-arts on Saturday is Word of Warning's day of live art for all ages. The Edinburgh hit, Unmythable – all the Greek myths in 70 minutes...
North
The big opening this week is Roger McGough's new version of Molière's The Misanthrope at Liverpool Playhouse, which should be fun. Theatre meets music gigs in 154 Collective's Dancing With the Orange Dog, which is at Stockton Arts Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Hairspray is out on tour again and is at the Lowry in Salford. In Manchester, meanwhile, Queer Contact celebrates the best in Lgbt art and culture this weekend. The moving first-world-war drama, The Accrington Pals, continues at the Exchange. David Copperfield begins at the Oldham Coliseum tonight. This looks intriguing: at Haphazard at Z-arts on Saturday is Word of Warning's day of live art for all ages. The Edinburgh hit, Unmythable – all the Greek myths in 70 minutes...
- 2/8/2013
- by Lyn Gardner
- The Guardian - Film News
At the SXSW Festival 2012, HBO rolled out the red carpet, screened three episodes of Lena Dunham's Girls, and viewers wandered into a bona fide hit. Whose time, incidentally, had come.
What writer/actress/director, Lena Dunham has written is good and true. At least in my opinion as a single person perpetually amazed by cutting-edge social and romantic horrors.
Mostly, Girls makes me glad.
I'm a student of sitcom (and, all right, sometimes a teacher of its evolution). World War II, coming conveniently near the beginning of popularly available television programming, allowed room for a Gertrude Berg (in 1949 the writer, star & producer of television's first sitcom, The Goldbergs); an Ethel Waters (The Beulah Show, 1950); and a Lucille Ball (who in 1951 set sitcom standards still in use by many: shoot film, 3 cameras, live audiences).
Meanwhile the guys were back from war (not that there's anything wrong with that), but the...
What writer/actress/director, Lena Dunham has written is good and true. At least in my opinion as a single person perpetually amazed by cutting-edge social and romantic horrors.
Mostly, Girls makes me glad.
I'm a student of sitcom (and, all right, sometimes a teacher of its evolution). World War II, coming conveniently near the beginning of popularly available television programming, allowed room for a Gertrude Berg (in 1949 the writer, star & producer of television's first sitcom, The Goldbergs); an Ethel Waters (The Beulah Show, 1950); and a Lucille Ball (who in 1951 set sitcom standards still in use by many: shoot film, 3 cameras, live audiences).
Meanwhile the guys were back from war (not that there's anything wrong with that), but the...
- 4/16/2012
- by Suzanne O'Malley
- Aol TV.
ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
While Beyoncé and Jay-z are excited about the arrival of their baby girl, Blue Ivy, a North Carolina prankster is obviously less enthusiastic about the new born. At the Beulah Hill Baptist Church in West End, Nc, a vandal rearranged letters on a sign to read "Beyonce had her baby. Satan is on Earth." After it was discovered, the church's pastor removed the message immediately .
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Halle Berry is reportedly engaged. The Oscar-winning actress received a diamond-and-emerald engagement ring from her boyfriend of little over a year, French actor Olivier Martinez. The couple hasn't come forward about the engagement; this story comes from a rep for Gurhan, the jeweler that designed the ring. After all, why wait for free advertising?
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There is some bad (yet unsurprising) news for Lindsay Lohan. The IRS is claiming the actress did not pay income tax in 2009, and now the agency is looking...
While Beyoncé and Jay-z are excited about the arrival of their baby girl, Blue Ivy, a North Carolina prankster is obviously less enthusiastic about the new born. At the Beulah Hill Baptist Church in West End, Nc, a vandal rearranged letters on a sign to read "Beyonce had her baby. Satan is on Earth." After it was discovered, the church's pastor removed the message immediately .
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Halle Berry is reportedly engaged. The Oscar-winning actress received a diamond-and-emerald engagement ring from her boyfriend of little over a year, French actor Olivier Martinez. The couple hasn't come forward about the engagement; this story comes from a rep for Gurhan, the jeweler that designed the ring. After all, why wait for free advertising?
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There is some bad (yet unsurprising) news for Lindsay Lohan. The IRS is claiming the actress did not pay income tax in 2009, and now the agency is looking...
- 1/11/2012
- by reelz reelz
- Reelzchannel.com
If the rate of stories about Beyonce and Jay-z’s blessed babe continues, we might have to start an entirely new blog devoted to Blue Ivy Carter. But in the meantime, here’s a little roundup of the latest B.I.C. headlines we love and loathe:
» NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t exactly confirm rumors about the special treatment Bey got at Lenox Hill Hospital, but at a press conference on Tuesday, he defended the practice of letting rich people upgrade hospital services. “If [the hospital] got paid a lot of money and it let them provide services to other people who don’t have insurance or can’t afford it, I’m not so sure it’s a bad thing. … I don’t think you should keep people from seeing their babies, or whatever, but have different services for people who are full-paying patients.”
» The horrifying theory that Blue Ivy...
» NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t exactly confirm rumors about the special treatment Bey got at Lenox Hill Hospital, but at a press conference on Tuesday, he defended the practice of letting rich people upgrade hospital services. “If [the hospital] got paid a lot of money and it let them provide services to other people who don’t have insurance or can’t afford it, I’m not so sure it’s a bad thing. … I don’t think you should keep people from seeing their babies, or whatever, but have different services for people who are full-paying patients.”
» The horrifying theory that Blue Ivy...
- 1/11/2012
- by Sabrina Rojas Weiss
- TheFabLife - Movies
Beyonce's new baby Blue Ivy Carter is the devil incarnate -- this according to some heartless vandal who defaced the sign in front of a North Carolina church yesterday ... writing, "Beyonce had her baby. Satan is on Earth."The pastor at Beulah Hill Baptist Church in West End, Nc tells TMZ, he discovered the vandalism yesterday after receiving numerous complaints from locals -- and removed it immediately.The pastor insists, the church had nothing to...
- 1/11/2012
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Hal Kanter (see photo), creator of the groundbreaking television series Julia, starring Diahann Carroll (photo) as a nurse, died Sunday, Nov. 6, of complications from pneumonia at Encino Hospital in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino. Kanter was 92. Julia (1968-71) marked the first time a black actress had an important role in an American television series playing something other than a maid (e.g., Ethel Waters and Louise Beavers in the 1950s series Beulah). As quoted in the Los Angeles Times obit, Kanter said he didn't want to make profound political statements with each Julia episode. But political statements were made all the same, as Kanter explained: There is a fallout of social comment. Every week we see a black child playing with a white child with complete acceptance and without incident. One of the recurring themes in the thousands of letters we get is from people who thank us for...
- 11/8/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The African-American servant or 'Mammy' is one of Hollywood's more troublesome cliches. Does new hit film The Help subvert or reinforce the stereotype, asks Xan Brooks
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House is an amiable 1948 comedy that casts Cary Grant as an imperilled advertising executive who is rescued, on the day of the deadline, by his beaming black domestic servant. "If you ain't eating Wham, you ain't eating ham," quips the servant, bustling in with a freshly prepared breakfast and casually providing a slogan to save her master's bacon. Naturally Blandings is delighted. "Darling!" he calls to his wife. "Give Gussie a $10 raise." This, back in 1948, was what passed for a Hollywood happy ending.
These days, thank heaven, the help are paid more fairly. For evidence, check out The Help, a 60s-set, Mississippi-based drama about a bunch of servants who "help" a white journalist write a book and...
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House is an amiable 1948 comedy that casts Cary Grant as an imperilled advertising executive who is rescued, on the day of the deadline, by his beaming black domestic servant. "If you ain't eating Wham, you ain't eating ham," quips the servant, bustling in with a freshly prepared breakfast and casually providing a slogan to save her master's bacon. Naturally Blandings is delighted. "Darling!" he calls to his wife. "Give Gussie a $10 raise." This, back in 1948, was what passed for a Hollywood happy ending.
These days, thank heaven, the help are paid more fairly. For evidence, check out The Help, a 60s-set, Mississippi-based drama about a bunch of servants who "help" a white journalist write a book and...
- 10/21/2011
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Boris Kodjoe is 37 today. The Hollywood heartthrob was last seen in 2009’s Surrogates, opposite Bruce Willis (a forgettable movie), and has 3 projects in various stages of production, notably his starring role in wunderkind director/producer J.J. Abrams’ upcoming TV actioner, Undercover, which has been described as Mr & Mrs Smith meets The Bourne Identity.
Cheryl “Salt” James from the 80s/90s all-girl rap group Salt-n-Pepa, is 46 years old today! Wow! Time sure flies doesn’t it? I’m sitting here thinking she’s in her late 30s. Cheryl has done a bit of acting here and there, over the years, but nothing memorable. She last played a Puerto Rican detective in a Mario Van Peebles straight-to-dvd movie in 2000 titled Raw Nerve. Anybody see it? On TV, there was The Salt-n-Pepa Show reality TV program in 2007, and lately, she’s been hanging out with Pepa on her own reality TV show titled Let’s Talk About Pep,...
Cheryl “Salt” James from the 80s/90s all-girl rap group Salt-n-Pepa, is 46 years old today! Wow! Time sure flies doesn’t it? I’m sitting here thinking she’s in her late 30s. Cheryl has done a bit of acting here and there, over the years, but nothing memorable. She last played a Puerto Rican detective in a Mario Van Peebles straight-to-dvd movie in 2000 titled Raw Nerve. Anybody see it? On TV, there was The Salt-n-Pepa Show reality TV program in 2007, and lately, she’s been hanging out with Pepa on her own reality TV show titled Let’s Talk About Pep,...
- 3/8/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Got quite a few today – more than yesterday…
Rapper Tone Loc (aka Anthony Terrell Smith) is 44 today. Did you know that the music video to Wild Thang, the track that launched him into super-stardom in the late 80s, reportedly only cost $340 to make? It looked like it . Loc has been busy in recent years acting in bit parts here and there for TV shows mostly. He’s also seen some of his most popular tracks used in a few movie soundtracks – most recently, Armored, Obsessed, You Me And Dupree, Charlies Angels: Full Throttle and others. I certainly hope he’s collecting royalty checks!
Actor Robert Gossett (cousin of Louis Gossett Jr) is 56 today; The man’s done a lot of TV work, with likely his most recognizable role as Commander Taylor on TNT’s The Closer. He’s also done the soap opera dance, with parts in The Young & The Restless and Passions.
Rapper Tone Loc (aka Anthony Terrell Smith) is 44 today. Did you know that the music video to Wild Thang, the track that launched him into super-stardom in the late 80s, reportedly only cost $340 to make? It looked like it . Loc has been busy in recent years acting in bit parts here and there for TV shows mostly. He’s also seen some of his most popular tracks used in a few movie soundtracks – most recently, Armored, Obsessed, You Me And Dupree, Charlies Angels: Full Throttle and others. I certainly hope he’s collecting royalty checks!
Actor Robert Gossett (cousin of Louis Gossett Jr) is 56 today; The man’s done a lot of TV work, with likely his most recognizable role as Commander Taylor on TNT’s The Closer. He’s also done the soap opera dance, with parts in The Young & The Restless and Passions.
- 3/3/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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