Entertainment

ABOVE PHOTO:  Boris Kodjoe and Sharon Leal  in a scene from Addicted.   Interview with Kam Williams From his big screen and television roles to his theatrical and entrepreneurial skills, Boris Kodjoe has proven to be one of Hollywood’s most sought-after talents. He is probably best known for his role as Damon Carter on the…

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By Lèo Holder A little more than a week after developing pneumonia, Geoffrey Holder made a decision. He was calling the shots as always. He was done. Two attempts at removing the breathing tube didn’t show promising results. In his truest moment of clarity since being rolled into I.C.U. he said he was good. Mouthing…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Beyonce, Rihanna, and Nicki Minaj In the last 90 days the SUN’s cover stories have featured at least three spectacular African American female stars—notably Jada Pinkett-Smith, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer—each one leading the cast of a major new television show this season. Even more splendid is the creative force behind Ms. Davis’s show,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Cam Anthony and Mo’Ne Davis were honored recently by the NeoDaviso Foundation and Philadelphia’s Young Professionals at the Social Sundays event.  (Photo courtesy: Kiarra Solomon)   By Kiarra Solomon @by_kiarra  Every other month, young professional Nehemiah Davis, hosts Social Sundays at Manayunk Brewery on Main Street. This event brings young professionals together for an evening of…

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By David Porter ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWARK, N.J. — Actor-comedian Tracy Morgan and other people in a limousine struck from behind by a Wal-Mart truck on a highway in June are at least partly to blame for their injuries because they weren’t wearing seatbelts, the company said in a court filing Monday. The filing was made…

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Review by Kam Williams  On the surface, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) is a perfectly-pleasant, hail fellow well met. By day, the affable widower is employed as a sales associate at a hardware superstore where he jokes with co-workers who call him “Pops.” Evenings, he retires to a modest apartment in a working-class, Boston community, although…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Octavia Spencer as Nurse Jackson. By Kendall Alexander Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer dons the nurse’s scrubs and takes care of a group of kids dealing with life-threatening illnesses and adolsecence simultaneously on Fox’s coming of age medical drama “Red Band Society.”   Produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin TV, the premise of Red Band Society…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Amy Tan (Photo by: ©Timothy Greenfield-Sanders ) Interview with Kam Williams Born in Oakland, California on February 19, 1952 to immigrant parents from China, Amy Tan is an award-winning writer whose novel, The Joy Luck Club, was translated into 35 languages and adapted into a hit feature film. She resisted her mother’s pressure to…

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The brilliant, charismatic and seductive Professor Annalise Keating (played by the equally brilliant Viola Davis) gets entangled with four law students from her class “How to Get Away With Murder.” Little do they know that they will have to apply what they learned to real life, in this masterful, sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller. In one…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Director Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington on the set of The Equalizer.   Interview with Kam Williams Denzel Washington is a man constantly on the move. Never content to just repeat his successes, the two-time Academy Award-winner (for Glory and Training Day) is always searching for new challenges through his numerous and varied film…

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