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• Diane Kruger Completes her Mon Diane Kruger Completes her Monochrome Outfit along with Chanel Bag

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    Weve already featured Diane Kruger just in recent times when she was spotted with date Joshua Jackson and an Alexander McQueen Python Clutch. Nevertheless they look dressed to kill at that gala occasion, this time, Diane Kruger stays refined and classy with her Chanel wallet handbags, that is just suitable for the Chanel and Tribeca Film Festival Artists dinner party (unlike Mary-Kate who we have observed using a Nancy Gonzalez bag).!!!!

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• Diane Kruger Completes her Mon Diane Kruger Completes her Monochrome Outfit together with Chanel Wallet

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    Weve already featured Diane Kruger just recently when she was spotted along with date Joshua Jackson and an Alexander McQueen Python Clutch. Nevertheless they look dressed to kill at that gala celebration, this time, Diane Kruger stays refined and classy along with her Chanel handbags brands, that is just proper for that Chanel and Tribeca Film Festival Artists dinner social gathering (unlike Mary-Kate who we have seen with a Nancy Gonzalez bag).!!!!

    Her monochrome ensemble is indeed an opposite of what she has shown on the exact recent gala night. We can clearly say that this is rather acceptable though a bit funky for any Chanel celebration.

    Yet anyway, excellent thing though she didnt opt for the exact classic quilted 2.55 wallet, and rather she complemented her outfit along with an equally funkier embellished Chanel wallet. The particular black turtle neck jumper is paired along with grey silk harem trousers, grounded along with black peep-toe pump and completed with a monochrome Chanel bag.

    The particular handbag looks truly apt for her overall ensemble. It somewhat gave a touch of gleam to her attire, and placing it across her body all the more exhibits her eclectic trend model. Nevertheless it is just not that beautiful looking for the exact celebration, at least she managed to look comfortable along with it, that is certainly better.

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• Amos 'n Andy: Spencer Williams Amos 'n Andy: Spencer Williams Jr

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    Spencer Williams (July 14, 1893 – December 13, 1969) was an African American actor and filmmaker. He was best known for playing Andy in the Amos 'n Andy television show and for the directing the 1941 race film The Blood of Jesus.  Williams (who was sometimes billed as Spencer Williams Jr.) was born in Vidalia, Louisiana. He moved to New York City when he was a teenager and secured work as call-boy for the theatrical impresario Oscar Hammerstein. During this period, he received mentoring as a comedian from the African American vaudeville star Bert Williams. Williams served in the U.S. Army during World War I, where he rose to the rank of sergeant.  During the 1920s, he began to snag bit roles in motion pictures, including a part in the 1928 Buster Keaton film Steamboat Bill, Jr. He teamed with Lonnie Jackson to record the song "It Feels So Good," which was released on the Okeh Race Records label in 1929.   Also in 1929, Williams was hired by producer Al Christie to create the dialogue for a series of two-reel comedy films featuring all-black casts. The films, which played on racial stereotypes and used grammatically tortured dialogue, included The Framing of the Shrew, The Lady Fare, Melancholy Dame, Music Hath Charms, and Oft in the Silly Night.

    During the 1930s, Williams secured small roles in race films, a genre of low-budget, independently-produced films with all-black casts that were created solely for exhibition in racially segregated theaters. Williams also created two screenplays for race film production: the Western film Harlem Rides the Range and the horror-comedy Son of Ingagi, both released in 1939. Alfred N. Sack, whose Dallas, Texas-based company Sack Amusement Enteprises produced and distributed race films, was impressed with Williams’ screenplay for Son of Ingagi and offered him the opportunity to write and direct a feature film.  At that time, the only African American filmmaker was the self-financing writer/director/producer Oscar Micheaux.

    Williams’ resulting film, The Blood of Jesus (1941), was produced on a $5,000 budget using non-professional actors for his cast. The film, a religious fantasy about the struggle for a dying’ Christian woman’s soul, was a major commercial success. Sack declared The Blood of Jesus was “possibly the most successful” race film ever made, and Williams was invited to direct additional films for Sack Amusement Enterprises. In the next six years, Williams directed Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus (1942), Marching On! (1943), Go Down Death (1944), Of One Blood (1944), Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. (1946), The Girl in Room 20 (1946), Beale Street Mama (1947) and Juke Joint (1947). Following the production of Juke Joint, Williams retired from the entertainment industry. He relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he joined Amos T. Hall in founding the American Business and Industrial College.

    In 1948, U.S. radio comedians Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll were planning to take their long-running comedy program Amos 'n Andy to television. The program focused on the misadventures of a group of African Americans in the Harlem section of New York City. Gosden and Correll were white, but played the black lead characters using racially stereotypical speech patterns. They had previously played the roles in blackface make-up for the 1930 film Check and Double Check, but for the television version they opted to use an African American cast.  Gosden and Correll conducted an extensive national talent search to cast the television version of Amos 'n Andy. News of the search reached Tulsa, where Williams was sought out by a local radio station that was aware of his previous work in race films.  Williams successfully auditioned for Gosden and Correll, and he was cast as Andrew H. Brown. Williams was joined in the cast by New York theater actor Alvin Childress, who was cast as Amos, and vaudeville comedian Tim Moore, who was cast as their friend George “Kingfish” Stevens.

    Amos 'n Andy was the first U.S. television program with an all-black cast, running for 78 episodes on CBS from 1951 to 1953.  However, the program created considerable controversy, with the NAACP going to federal court to achieve an injunction to halt its premiere. After the show completed its network run, CBS syndicated Amos 'n Andy to local U.S. television stations and sold the program to television networks in other countries. The program was eventually pulled from release in 1966, under pressure from civil rights groups that stated it offered a negatively distorted view of African American life.  After Amos 'n Andy ended its network run, Williams made very few professional appearances.

    His last credited role was as a hospital orderly in the 1962 Italian horror production L'Orribile Segreto del Dottor Hitchcock.  Williams died of a kidney ailment on December 13, 1969, at the Sawtelle Veterans Administration Hospital in Los Angeles, California. At the time of his death, news coverage focused solely on his work as a television actor, since few white filmgoers knew of his race films. The New York Times obituary for Williams cited Amos 'n Andy but made no mention of his work as a film director.  Recognition for Williams’ work as a film director came years after his death, when film historians began to rediscover the race films. Some of Williams’ films were considered lost until they were located in a Tyler, Texas, warehouse in 1983.  One film directed by Williams, his 1942 feature Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus, is still considered lost.  Most film historians consider The Blood of Jesus to be Williams’ crowning achievement as a filmmaker. Dave Kehr of The New York Times called the film “magnificent” and Time magazine counted it among its “25 Most Important Films on Race.” In 1991, The Blood of Jesus became the first race film to be added to the U.S. National Film Registry.  Film critic Armond White named both The Blood of Jesus and Go Down Death as being “among the most spiritually adventurous movies ever made. They conveyed the moral crisis of the urban/country, blues/spiritual musical dichotomies through their documentary style and fable-like narratives.”

    Williams was a multitalented man whose energy and unfailing good humor were, by all accounts, extra-ordinary. He was a pioneering success in a medium that was built to exclude his participation in it, and for that he deserves to be remembered.

     

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• Straight from Harlem: Suzanne Straight from Harlem: Suzanne de Passe

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    It’s a long way from the Motown hit factory to the dusty trails of Lonesome Dove (1989), but Suzanne de Passe made that journey, achieving staggering success in the worlds of pop music, film, and television along the way. De Passe’s career began auspiciously in the late 1960s when she discovered and developed the legendary Jackson 5 while a young executive at Motown Records. In 1981, de Passe was named president of Motown Productions, where she focused on television production with a series of high-profile, critically lauded, and award-winning specials such as Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever (1983) and Motown Returns to the Apollo (1985). Then in 1989, a particularly daring production from de Passe looked beyond the storied history of Motown records to a then-unpublished manuscript by Larry McMurtry in the unfashionable western genre: Lonesome Dove. The miniseries was a triumph, winning Emmy, Golden Globe, and Peabody Awards. In 1992, de Passe founded her own production company, de Passe Entertainment. Firmly established as one of the leading entertainment executives—her career is the subject of two case studies taught at the Harvard Business School—de Passe is frankly outspoken about her frustrations with the status quo, noting, “I find that what’s between me and my audience…is a white guy in a suit!”

    Suzanne de Passe was born in Harlem, New York, to a schoolteacher and an executive with Seagrams, Inc. She attended the progressive New Lincoln School, which she credits for her assertive, self-assured approach to business. De Passe joined Motown in 1968 after being introduced to founder Berry Gordy by Cindy Birdsong, a singer with the label’s Supremes. It was in her capacity as “creative assistant” to Gordy that she became aware of the Jackson 5, a fledgling singing group distinguished by the soaring tenor of its nine-year-old front man, Michael. De Passe sold Gordy on the group after watching them perform in an acquaintance’s apartment. Charged with developing the group, de Passe shepherded the five brothers to worldwide fame. It was in this period that de Passe cowrote the screenplay for Lady Sings the Blues, the 1972 film treatment of the life of Billie Holiday, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination.

    Gordy sold Motown Records in 1988, planning to focus on Motown Productions in an effort to expand into film and television production. De Passe was named president, and Time magazine inaugurated her as “one of the most promising new mini-moguls in Hollywood.” That promise was soon fulfilled, as de Passe came away from a chance meeting with author Larry McMurtry with the rights to Lonesome Dove. De Passe later recalled the meeting: “I asked him what he had kicking around the old trunk that hadn’t been produced on film. He told me he had a book coming out in June but didn’t think I’d be interested because it was a western. I told him on the contrary that I would be very interested. I love westerns and have been a horsewoman for a long time.” McMurtry was unable to interest any studios in making the project, but de Passe’s uncanny instinct for recognizing quality remained intact. Lonesome Dove became a landmark miniseries, critically acclaimed and award-laden. The production attracted such luminaries as Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, and Anjelica Huston and revived a moribund genre, inspiring several sequels. De Passe also produced a number of television specials honoring the Motown legacy, including the above-mentioned Motown 25 and Motown Returns to the Apollo, both winners of Emmy and NAACP Image Awards. De Passe personally won Emmy Awards for these two events, which were both culturally significant and tremendously entertaining programs. She also executive produced Small Sacrifices, a Peabody Award–winning miniseries adaptation of the much-admired book by Ann Rule.

    De Passe formed her own production company, de Passe Entertainment, in 1992. Among her productions in this period were the situation comedies Sister, Sister and Smart Guy and the miniseries The Temptations (NAACP Image Award winner) and The Jacksons: An American Dream. In the Jacksons project, de Passe had the unusual experience of casting an actor to play herself. She chose the glamorous Vanessa Williams, noting, “I took no little amount of heat from my friends, like really Miss Thing!”

    De Passe’s extraordinary career has been recognized with an American Women in Radio and Television Silver Satellite Award and her induction into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, among many other honors. She teaches at Howard University, where she holds the Time Warner Endowed Chair in Media, and continues to be an active presence in entertainment media.

     

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• Documentary, "Michael Jackson Documentary, "Michael Jackson The Trial and Triumph of the King of Pop"

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    Warnes Bros. picked up our documentary, "Michael Jackson The Trial and Triumph of the King of Pop" up for Video On Demand and is available in 50 million homes on your cable or satellite TV system, amazon.com, itunes, and retailers worldwide!

     

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    Plus, over 100 operators and digital destinations have also signed up to present this film to you.

     

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    Finally, the little guy gets a shot to play with the big boys.

     
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• American Idol: Paula Abdul Exi American Idol: Paula Abdul Exits Stage Left

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    Paula Abdul announced she is quitting "American Idol."  Abdul posted on her Twitter account that, "With sadness in my heart, I've decided not to return." Sources say they were blindsided by Abdul’s decision to break off talks and that Fox and the show's producers were saddened that she decided not to return.  They stated that Abdul was "an important part of the 'American Idol' family over the last eight seasons."

    

     

    Abdul had reportedly sought a $20 million salary and more recently had reduced that to $12 million, However, it was still more than twice what Fox, Fremantle and 19 Entertainment were said to be offering.  Although her fans might be upset, advertisers don't expect her exit as an "American Idol" judge to have any significant impact on ad sales or audience ratings.

    Shari Cohen, executive director of Mindshare in New York, which buys TV ad time for national advertisers said, "To me, that show is appointment TV, and a lot of it is driven by the contestants and how compelling they are. I think the judges offer a layer of intrigue and allure, but it's really very much about how compelling are the contestants and does that draw viewers in."  However, Paul Telegdy, who heads unscripted programming at NBC, said he thought it was a mistake for Fox to let her go and that she was a major reason fans watched the show.

    Fox did announce that Kara DioGuardi would return for a second season on the "American Idol" judging panel that includes Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson. It seems the addition of Grammy-nominated songwriter DioGuardi last year raised questions about Abdul's future. Now Victoria Beckham aka “Posh” is on hand for the first round of "American Idol" auditions in the post-Paula Abdul era. The former Spice Girl arrived at a downtown Denver hotel where call-back auditions were being held as scores of onlookers crowded against rope barriers, many snapping photos. Fox, which airs the popular singing show, said Beckham and Katy Perry would be guest judges in Abdul's place.

    It is rumored that Abdul will take on an NBC gig but NBC denied reports that she would join "America's Got Talent" as a judge. Fox denied that she was invited to be a judge on "So You Think You Can Dance." And an ABC rep said she had not been approached about being a judge on "Dancing With the Stars" or any other program.

    Abdul said on Twitter, "I'll miss nurturing all the new talent, but most of all being a part of a show that I helped from day 1 become an international phenomenon!”  What do you think about Abdul’s exit, a big mistake? If so for who Paula or “American Idol”? 

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• Michael Jackson: Bridging The Michael Jackson: Bridging The Racial Divide

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    As the world mourns the death of Mega-Superstar and Icon, Michael Jackson, you can’t help but look over his life’s journey and evaluate what his presence in the world has truly meant.  When you think about the quintessential artist, Michael Jackson unquestionably comes to mind.  Professionally, Jackson was a singer, songwriter, dancer, choreographer, director and businessman.  Over the span of his career, the breath and depth of his work included an array of music styles and genres from Pop, Rock, Disco, Soul and R & B.  

    When Jackson’s album Thriller was released it helped to break color barriers on both radio and television.  His genius was so hypnotizing that even MTV had to make concessions.  Walter Yetnikoff, the former president of CBS Records, recalled that MTV would not play “Beat It” or “Billie Jean” because it considered itself a Rock station.  A Los Angeles Times article written in 1991 quoted MTV founder and then CEO Robert Pitman saying that the format of the channel didn’t lend itself to other music genres including R & B and Country music.  Pitman felt that the critics were trying to impose their views on MTV’s Rock fans.  However, Yetnikoff threatened to pull all of his artists other videos from the channel if MTV didn’t play Jackson’s videos.  His videos soon played in heavy rotation on MTV.    This act, unquestionably helped to pave the way for other African American and non-rock artists alike.    

    The Reverend Al Sharpton was quoted as saying that “Michael Jackson made culture accept a person of color way before Tiger Woods, way before Oparah Winfrey, way before Barack Obama.”  He also says, “Michael did with music what they later did in sports and in politics and in television…”  Well considering that in 1947 Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play in a Major League baseball game which is 78 years after Major League Baseball was founded in 1869 sort of makes Al Sharpton’s proclamation a bit of an exaggeration. 

    Nevertheless, Jackson has played a significant role in helping tobreakdown the color divide.  Early on, the Jackson 5 became a sensation to the world and they did it with their signature afros and bell-bottoms.  Mark Anthony Neal, a professor in Duke University’s African American Studies Department stated that the Jackson 5 “became a cutting-edge example of black cross-over artists.”   Neal also said that Jackson was the first black “bubblegum teen star” in the vein of Monkees singer Davy Jones.   It’s clear to see that Michael Jackson has without question helped to pave the way for an entire generation of black musicians male and female alike.

    Even with all that The Jackson 5 and Michael, as a solo artist, has managed to accomplish on behalf of African Americans there is certainly this dichotomy between his private and professional life.  Here we have a black artist who seems to have turned white right before our eyes.   His change in skin color and features, due to numerous plastic surgeries, really troubled a lot of people and left them with feelings of betrayal.  Yet, whether the change in his pigmentation was from Vitiligo, which is what Jackson told Oprah Winfrey during a 1993 interview or was manifested by conscious choice, his impact on black America and people all over the world remains.  The barriers have still been broken, the road has still been paved and the opportunities have become limitless because of his genius.  Has this phenomenon occurred just on the strength of one artist, certainly not!  Yet, we must recognize the power of one and how what we can accomplish and contribute as individuals, as an artist, can impact the world.

     

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