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Scandal, the newest drama from ABC’s go-to production machine Shonda Rhimes, premiered Thursday at 10 PM with Kerry Washington as the head of a crisis management firm based on real life DC insider Judy Smith.

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Jasmine Guy is a Renaissance woman with dancer, actress, singer, director, and writer on her resume. She performed in the Broadway productions of The Wiz, Leader of the Pack, Grease, and Chicago, and she has also served as a stage director and choreographer on numerous occasions.

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Stylist June Ambrose helped remake the image of Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey as they were preparing major comebacks, but there’s one icon she didn’t get to remake — Whitney Houston. Working with Houston wasn’t a pipe dream for Ambrose. 

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Picture a post-apocalyptic North America left devastated by a combination of fire, famine, drought and wars. The U.S. has collapsed only to be replaced by a centralized, totalitarian regime run with an iron fist by the President (Donald Sutherland) with the approval of effete elites barricaded inside the wealthy Capitol.

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Usher’s stepping back into the acting arena, but this time as a champion boxer. The singer is set to star in an upcoming film “Hands of Stone,” playing the role of Sugar Ray Leonard. The movie is actually about Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran, but Usher has a significant part.

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Kicking off its first upfront season with President and CEO Wonya Lucas at the helm, TV One today unveiled ambitious plans to double the amount of original content during the 2012-2013 television year. In astar-studded presentation to advertisers at Cipriani, Ms. Lucas said…

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A born hustler from Chicago’s South Side, DeRay Davis began his career on the comedy club circuit and was first noticed by Hollywood while onstage at Atlanta’s Laffapalooza Festival. Shortly after moving to LA, he won the Comedy Central Laugh Riots Competition…

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From orphan to bounty hunter, tough-minded Hannah Beaumont doesn’t take lip from anyone. Only in her mid-twenties, Hannah is driven by a soul-consuming mission to track down and bring to justice the McMurphy gang who brutally murdered her parents and young brother.

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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake wasn’t exactly jumping when Jada Pinkett Smith asked for her help in protecting elephants earlier this week. The mayor more or less says she had bigger fish to fry — that and the actress didn’t help her out when the city needed it.

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FELA!, the critically acclaimed musical and the recipient of three 2010 Tony Awards, will play the Academy of Music for a limited engagement March 20 – March 25 as part of the Broadway Season, presented by The Kimmel Center and The Shubert Organization.

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