What does being a young, Black woman with superpowers mean in America today? That’s the question author L.L. McKinney and artist Robyn Smith tackle in the young adult graphic novel, Nubia: Real One. In reimaging Nubia, Wonder Woman’s long lost twin sister, as a high schooler struggling to find her place amidst the cadre of superheroes she’s admired since childhood, and within the Black Lives Matter Movement, McKinney reexamines the core tenets of Wonder Woman – peace, justice, and truth, through a fresh perspective that both honors DC Comics’ past and helps build a future more aware of how very ...
- 2/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What does being a young, Black woman with superpowers mean in America today? That’s the question author L.L. McKinney and artist Robyn Smith tackle in the young adult graphic novel, Nubia: Real One. In reimaging Nubia, Wonder Woman’s long lost twin sister, as a high schooler struggling to find her place amidst the cadre of superheroes she’s admired since childhood, and within the Black Lives Matter Movement, McKinney reexamines the core tenets of Wonder Woman – peace, justice, and truth, through a fresh perspective that both honors DC Comics’ past and helps build a future more aware of how very ...
- 2/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In the history of motion-picture technology, few operators have had a more profound effect on camera movement than Garrett Brown. While dollies and cranes were Hollywood’s go-to platforms into the late ’60s, Brown’s ingenious camera rig — dubbed the Pole and later renamed Steadicam — started a photographic breakthrough that’s still growing 50 years later.
Preceding the prototype’s successful debut in 1972 for ABC Sports (covering female jockey Robyn Smith on a 600-foot uncut walk from weighing room to paddock), Brown sent out an “impossible shots” reel that included a scene of his girlfriend and future wife Ellen ascending the 72 steps at the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art with, miraculously, nary a camera wobble.
One of the people who saw that reel included director John Avildsen, and sure enough Brown’s invention landed three colossal projects in 1975 alone: Avildsen’s “Rocky,” Hal Ashby’s “Bound for Glory” and John Schlesinger’s “Marathon Man.
Preceding the prototype’s successful debut in 1972 for ABC Sports (covering female jockey Robyn Smith on a 600-foot uncut walk from weighing room to paddock), Brown sent out an “impossible shots” reel that included a scene of his girlfriend and future wife Ellen ascending the 72 steps at the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art with, miraculously, nary a camera wobble.
One of the people who saw that reel included director John Avildsen, and sure enough Brown’s invention landed three colossal projects in 1975 alone: Avildsen’s “Rocky,” Hal Ashby’s “Bound for Glory” and John Schlesinger’s “Marathon Man.
- 3/29/2019
- by James C. Udel
- Variety Film + TV
Chitoka Light’s living room is just a few feet from her bed, but she hasn’t set foot in the space in years.
At 680-lbs., she’s been bedridden for the last three years, but she’s finally ready to cross the threshold into the rest of her home.
“Today is a big step for me,” Light, 49, says in this exclusive clip from Wednesday’s episode of Family By the Ton. “I’m going to attempt to get walking to my living room. I know that seems little, but the last few years I’ve only made it to...
At 680-lbs., she’s been bedridden for the last three years, but she’s finally ready to cross the threshold into the rest of her home.
“Today is a big step for me,” Light, 49, says in this exclusive clip from Wednesday’s episode of Family By the Ton. “I’m going to attempt to get walking to my living room. I know that seems little, but the last few years I’ve only made it to...
- 1/23/2018
- by Julie Mazziotta
- PEOPLE.com
The Kennedy Center Honors have been handed out since 1978. Recipients hail from various branches of the American performance art world — including film, stage, music, and dance — even though performers more closely associated with British show business have managed to sneak in every now and then, e.g., Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Pete Townshend. Since recipients are supposed to attend the Washington, D.C., ceremony in order to take home their Kennedy awards, Doris Day has remained unhonored by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Katharine Hepburn kept putting it off until she finally relented in 1990. (Irene Dunne, see above photo, was one who managed to be honored though absent due to ill health.) Ginger Rogers, for her part, was present at the ceremony, but her films with Fred Astaire weren't — because Astaire's widow, Robyn Astaire, demanded payment for the televised clips. At the time, Kennedy Center Honors...
- 9/7/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
hollywoodnews.com: Robyn Astaire, widow of the legendary dancer Fred Astaire, issued the following statement regarding the “Fred and Adele Astaire Awards,” which are scheduled to be held in New York tonight.
“The producers of tonight’s event are using my husband’s name without authorization and their show has neither the endorsement nor the support of the Astaire family. To the contrary, we have asked for a federal court order that bars the producers of this event from ever using the Astaire name without permission in the future.
“Fred Astaire supported artistic achievement and charitable giving–as do I. But he drew the line at the unauthorized use of his name–and so do I. The producers were warned on three separate occasions to stop, but they refused. I honor my husband’s memory and wishes too much to ignore this. I have for many years authorized the legitimate Astaire Awards ceremony,...
“The producers of tonight’s event are using my husband’s name without authorization and their show has neither the endorsement nor the support of the Astaire family. To the contrary, we have asked for a federal court order that bars the producers of this event from ever using the Astaire name without permission in the future.
“Fred Astaire supported artistic achievement and charitable giving–as do I. But he drew the line at the unauthorized use of his name–and so do I. The producers were warned on three separate occasions to stop, but they refused. I honor my husband’s memory and wishes too much to ignore this. I have for many years authorized the legitimate Astaire Awards ceremony,...
- 6/8/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
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