A Revealing Night with Black Showrunners at Paley Panel
It was a panel that may not have been able to exist even a decade ago– and that is cause for celebration. Coming in the midst of Black History Month, the Paley Center for Media spotlighted prominent African-American showrunners and creators in a spirited discussion aptly titled “They Run the Show.” Taking the stage on February 13 at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills in a conversation moderated by “Entertainment Tonight’s”...
WGA Awards Crown Jordan Peele, James Ivory, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Veep’
Despite the serious subject matter of many of the projects in contention for the 2018 WGA Awards, with Patton Oswalt hosting for the third year running, a large thread of humor ran throughout the proceedings. “Good evening, Disney employees,” Oswalt began as he took the podium at the Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom for the untelevised—and therefore, uncensored–West Coast ceremonies on Feb. 11. (A concurrent WGA East...
African American Film Critics Awards Fete Jordan Peele, Frances McDormand, Ava DuVernay and Rob Reiner
It was a festive evening for the 9th annual African American Film Critics Association Awards held February 7 at Hollywood’s Taglyan Center with ceremonies hosted by Nischelle Turner of Entertainment Tonight. But the night belonged to Jordan Peele, the writer, producer and director of the groundbreaking racial horror film Get Out, which has been among the top films dominating the conversation during this awards season. Peele was...
CNN Explores an Infamous Kidnap Case in ‘The Radical Story of Patty Hearst’
“Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people.” If those wack-o words sound the least bit familiar, then you were probably around in 1974 and following every detail during the wall-to-wall media coverage of the kidnapping saga of Patricia Campbell Hearst, which ended with her capture in September 1975. That slogan was the calling card of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a self-styled Bay Area- based terrorist...
Del Toro and Peele Score Top Honors at Directors Guild Awards
Director Guillermo del Toro’s mantel is getting mighty weighed down with all of the trophies he is winning for his allegorical fish-out-of-water romance The Shape of Water. The latest came Saturday night when he picked up the top honor at the Directors Guild of America Awards. The DGA Award puts him in the lead to pick up the best director statue at the upcoming Academy Awards. In the last 20 years, there have been only...
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