Mouna Traoré (Murdoch Mysteries) and Ellen Wong (Glow) are set to recur opposite Max Irons in Condor, At&T Audience Network's 10-episode straight-to-series drama produced by MGM Television and Skydance TV. Inspired by Sydney Pollack's 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor, and written by Jason Smilovic and Todd Katzberg, Condor follows Joe Turner (Irons), a young CIA analyst whose idealism is tested when he stumbles onto a terrible but brilliant plan that…...
- 8/25/2017
- Deadline TV
Kate Vernon (The 100) is set for a recurring role opposite William Hurt in Condor, At&T Audience Network's 10-episode straight-to-series drama produced by MGM Television and Skydance TV. Inspired by Sydney Pollack's 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor, and written by Jason Smilovic and Todd Katzberg, Condor follows Joe Turner (Max Irons), a young CIA analyst whose idealism is tested when he stumbles onto a terrible but brilliant plan that threatens the lives…...
- 4/26/2017
- Deadline TV
Brendan Fraser (The Affair, The Mummy franchise) has been cast opposite Max Irons and Mira Sorvino in Condor, At&T Audience Network's 10-episode straight-to-series drama produced by MGM Television and Skydance TV. Inspired by Sydney Pollack's 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor, and written by Jason Smilovic and Todd Katzberg, Condor follows Joe Turner (Irons), a young CIA analyst whose idealism is tested when he stumbles onto a terrible but brilliant plan…...
- 4/6/2017
- Deadline TV
Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino is set to recur opposite Max Irons in Condor, At&T Audience Network's 10-episode straight-to-series drama produced by MGM Television and Skydance TV. In addition, Lawrence Trilling (Goliath, Parenthood) will direct the first three episodes and executive produce. Inspired by Sydney Pollack's 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor, and written by Jason Smilovic and Todd Katzberg, Condor follows Joe Turner (Irons), a young CIA…...
- 4/3/2017
- Deadline TV
It’s the end of the world for Jennifer Finnigan.
The Tyrant actress will star in CBS’ summer event series Salvation, which explores what happens when an MIT grad student (Red Band Society‘s Charlie Rowe) and a tech superstar discover that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.
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Finnigan will play Pentagon Press Secretary Grace Darrow, whose world is turned upside down when she learns of the approaching doomsday scenario. The single mom struggles to keep the secret from...
The Tyrant actress will star in CBS’ summer event series Salvation, which explores what happens when an MIT grad student (Red Band Society‘s Charlie Rowe) and a tech superstar discover that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.
RelatedShawn Ryan’s S.W.A.T. Pilot Ordered at CBS, Justin Lin to Direct
Finnigan will play Pentagon Press Secretary Grace Darrow, whose world is turned upside down when she learns of the approaching doomsday scenario. The single mom struggles to keep the secret from...
- 2/7/2017
- TVLine.com
The sounds of bass and horns begin to fill the spaces of the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson perks up. “You can hear that ‘70s funk now!”
He and actor André Holland have been on a busy schedule promoting the current Broadway production of August Wilson’s Jitney, which officially opened Jan. 19, and it’s now a couple of hours before tonight’s performance will begin. But that sound check of the original blues score by composer Bill Sims Jr. sends a jolt of energy through the air.
“We have the most diverse audience on Broadway right now,” says Santiago-Hudson with infectious enthusiasm. “It’s not just a black audience, it’s a wonderful, diverse New York City audience. That's a bold, American statement: We the people, we're saying it's time!”
More: 2017 Spring Theater Preview
It’s a few days after Donald Trump has been sworn into office as president of the United States...
He and actor André Holland have been on a busy schedule promoting the current Broadway production of August Wilson’s Jitney, which officially opened Jan. 19, and it’s now a couple of hours before tonight’s performance will begin. But that sound check of the original blues score by composer Bill Sims Jr. sends a jolt of energy through the air.
“We have the most diverse audience on Broadway right now,” says Santiago-Hudson with infectious enthusiasm. “It’s not just a black audience, it’s a wonderful, diverse New York City audience. That's a bold, American statement: We the people, we're saying it's time!”
More: 2017 Spring Theater Preview
It’s a few days after Donald Trump has been sworn into office as president of the United States...
- 2/7/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Max Irons (The White Queen) has been cast as the lead in Condor, At&T Audience Network’s 10-episode straight-to-series drama produced by MGM Television and Skydance TV. On the show, inspired by Sydney Pollack’s 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor, Irons will play Joe Turner, modeled after Robert Redford’s iconic role in the movie. Written by Jason Smilovic and Todd Katzberg, Condor follows young CIA analyst Joe Turner, whose idealism is tested when he…...
- 2/6/2017
- Deadline TV
Though Denzel Washington isn't known for his television work, the Academy Award-winning actor has announced he will return to the stage (and the director's chair) on the small screen in the upcoming HBO production of August Wilson's "Fences." But the news doesn't stop there. Read More: Denzel Washington to Receive Cecil B. Demille Award at 73rd Golden Globe Awards Washington has also revealed that he will executive produce all 10 of the Pulitzer-winning playwright's works for HBO. The network has plans to roll out one film a year. In addition to "Fences," Wilson's plays include "Radio Golf," "King Hedley II," "Jitney," "Two Trains Running," "Seven Guitars," "The Piano Lesson," "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" and "Gem of the Ocean." "Fences" follows the story follows a former baseball athlete struggling to provide for his...
- 12/11/2015
- by Aubrey Page
- Indiewire
Denzel Washington has revealed that he's set to produce ten telemovie adaptations of Pulitzer prize-winning playwright August Wilson's plays for HBO.
Revealing the news at a Q&A event at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Washington says:
"He did 10 plays. I've been given the opportunity by the August Wilson estate. I'm directing and producing and acting in one ('Fences') and I'm executive producing the other nine. I made a deal with HBO.
We're going to do one a year for the next nine years. I'm really excited about that. That that they put it in my hands, the estate, and trust me. That's good enough for me. It doesn't get any better than that."
Collectively called the August Wilson Century Cycle, the plays deal with the African American experience in the 20th century, particularly racial tensions felt by the African American middle class.
Viola Davis...
Revealing the news at a Q&A event at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Washington says:
"He did 10 plays. I've been given the opportunity by the August Wilson estate. I'm directing and producing and acting in one ('Fences') and I'm executive producing the other nine. I made a deal with HBO.
We're going to do one a year for the next nine years. I'm really excited about that. That that they put it in my hands, the estate, and trust me. That's good enough for me. It doesn't get any better than that."
Collectively called the August Wilson Century Cycle, the plays deal with the African American experience in the 20th century, particularly racial tensions felt by the African American middle class.
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- 9/18/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Tony- and Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson developed six plays the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Seven Guitars, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, and Two Trains Running. In celebration of the PBS American Masters documentary 'August Wilson The Ground on Which I Stand', Risk Again shares excerpts from The O'Neill Transformation of Modern American Theater.
- 3/2/2015
- by National Theater Institute
- BroadwayWorld.com
“If I’m going to a play, I want to see myself onstage,” said Lydia R. Diamond. “It’s not rocket science.” Diamond’s comment cut to the core of a question posed by National Public Radio’s Michel Martin at Wnyc’s Greene Space Sept. 19: Does Broadway reflect the vibrant, dynamic stories of its diverse city? The event, titled “A Broader Way,” kicked off Martin’s 10-city tour centered on having what she called “difficult discussions with dignity.” Diamond was joined by fellow award-winning NYC playwrights whose work explores racial issues—David Henry Hwang, Kristoffer Diaz, and Bruce Norris—to get to the bottom of whether the Great White Way is too white. Tony-nominated actor Stephen McKinley Henderson performed a monologue from August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” to set the evening’s thought-provoking tone. As Martin interviewed her panel of theater professionals, another conversation...
- 10/8/2014
- backstage.com
Though there are some spoilers sprinkled throughout this piece for some of the films, they are largely vague for readers who have not seen the films in question.
In his book Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, journalist Rick Pearlstein posits that Nixon, one of history’s most reviled presidents, manipulated social trends, tense racial crises and even war to assume the office, and, perhaps inadvertently, created the way the Right and Left deal with each other in the present day. The scars of the seventies indeed still hang like a dark cloud over Washington, its internal systems ravaged by covert bugging operations and illegal payoffs. With Edward Snowden’s Nsa revelations and Wikileaks at the forefront today, America has once again regressed into paranoia, though nothing in contemporary cinema compares to the violent, bleak reactions filmmakers had to the Watergate scandal. The occasional modern conspiracy thriller,...
In his book Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, journalist Rick Pearlstein posits that Nixon, one of history’s most reviled presidents, manipulated social trends, tense racial crises and even war to assume the office, and, perhaps inadvertently, created the way the Right and Left deal with each other in the present day. The scars of the seventies indeed still hang like a dark cloud over Washington, its internal systems ravaged by covert bugging operations and illegal payoffs. With Edward Snowden’s Nsa revelations and Wikileaks at the forefront today, America has once again regressed into paranoia, though nothing in contemporary cinema compares to the violent, bleak reactions filmmakers had to the Watergate scandal. The occasional modern conspiracy thriller,...
- 7/17/2014
- by Kenny Hedges
- SoundOnSight
This weekend, as you search for a movie to watch, you can go see Captain America: The Winter Soldier or pick one of approximately 14 billion options available on streaming over a variety of services, be it Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, On Demand, or other sites. Every week, Vulture tries to make life easier by narrowing it down to a handful of heartily recommended options. This week, Angelina Jolie, Walter Matthau, Alfred Hitchcock, and Robert Redford stick their noses in enemy business for our pleasure.Three Days of the CondorThe Winter Soldier shares the DNA of Sydney Pollock's paranoia-laden chase film. Fully realizing a New Yorker's worst nightmare, CIA librarian Joe Turner a.k.a. “Condor” (a.k.a. Robert Redford) steps out for a sandwich at the local bodega, only to return to an office full of gunned down coworkers. Turner evades his would-be assassins and sets off on a hunt...
- 4/6/2014
- by Matt Patches
- Vulture
We all know what happened to Will Smith after The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. And at the end of last year we discovered that his co-star Alfonso Ribeiro (aka Carlton) was clearly still a busy man as he headed into the jungle to munch on some kangaroo balls in I'm a Celebrity.
But whatever happened to Geoffrey, the Banks family's long-suffering stiff upper lipped butler? Scratch your heads no more, because Digital Spy has caught up with Joseph Marcell to chat about trips to Brighton nightclubs, Turkish fans and why his lack of sex appeal is holding back a reality TV career.
Joseph, how often do you start interviews with people calling you Geoffrey?
Almost every other day. I walk round London and people are shouting, "Geoffrey, Geoffrey, Geoffrey". Last year I was in Turkey and it was the same thing. I was in Romania and it was the same thing.
But whatever happened to Geoffrey, the Banks family's long-suffering stiff upper lipped butler? Scratch your heads no more, because Digital Spy has caught up with Joseph Marcell to chat about trips to Brighton nightclubs, Turkish fans and why his lack of sex appeal is holding back a reality TV career.
Joseph, how often do you start interviews with people calling you Geoffrey?
Almost every other day. I walk round London and people are shouting, "Geoffrey, Geoffrey, Geoffrey". Last year I was in Turkey and it was the same thing. I was in Romania and it was the same thing.
- 2/24/2014
- Digital Spy
London, Jan 1: The most common New Year resolution is to focus on fitness. Here's how you bring about a positive change.
Joe Turner, personal trainer and lead tutor at www.thetrainingroom.com shares tips to help you materialise your New Year fitness resolution, reports femalefirst.co.uk:
* Ask a personal trainer to prepare a realistic programme for you.
* Change your programme every four to six weeks.
* Set precise goals. For instance, "I want to lose 10 kg in four weeks". It shouldn't be "I want to lose weight".
* Take an expert's advice on the right nutrition. The best exercise routine will fail if.
Joe Turner, personal trainer and lead tutor at www.thetrainingroom.com shares tips to help you materialise your New Year fitness resolution, reports femalefirst.co.uk:
* Ask a personal trainer to prepare a realistic programme for you.
* Change your programme every four to six weeks.
* Set precise goals. For instance, "I want to lose 10 kg in four weeks". It shouldn't be "I want to lose weight".
* Take an expert's advice on the right nutrition. The best exercise routine will fail if.
- 1/1/2014
- by Rahul Kapoor
- RealBollywood.com
Exclusive: The Theatre Department of Wme Entertainment has signed two estates of Broadway hitmakers. The agency now reps the estates of Jerome Robbins and August Wilson. This is significant since their works continue to be revived. Major hits that Robbins either directed or choreographed include The King And I, Fiddler On The Roof, West Side Story (which Robbins conceived as well as directed and choreographed), The Pajama Game, Peter Pan, Gypsy and On The Town. The latter has been the subject of speculation about a revival coming for next season or the one after, and one of the others is also going to be revived. Robbins won two Oscars and five Tony Awards. His estate had previously been handled by attorneys at Fitelson, Lasky, Asland, Couture & Garmise. Wilson’s works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Joe Turner’s Come And Gone, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,...
- 12/4/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
The 24th Annual La Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, celebrating theatrical excellence and achievement during the 2013 season, were presented on Sunday, November 3 at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse Thirty-five awards were bestowed upon 13 different Southern California theatre companies. Leading the pack with 12 was Center Theatre Group seven for The Nether at the Kirk Douglas Theatre three for Joe Turner's Come and Gone at the Mark Taper Forum one for The Scottsboro Boys at the Ahmanson Theatre and one for The Royale at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Ctg was followed by 3-D Theatricals with five awards four for Parade and one for Shrek the Musical. The Chance Theater and La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts took home three awards each including Best Season for La Mirada Circle X Theatre Company, the Fountain Theatre, and the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble tied with two each. Check out a look back at the red carpet arrivals,...
- 11/4/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The 24th Annual La Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, celebrating theatrical excellence and achievement during the 2013 season, were presented on Sunday, November 3 at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse Thirty-five awards were bestowed upon 13 different Southern California theatre companies. Leading the pack with 12 was Center Theatre Group seven for The Nether at the Kirk Douglas Theatre three for Joe Turner's Come and Gone at the Mark Taper Forum one for The Scottsboro Boys at the Ahmanson Theatre and one for The Royale at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Ctg was followed by 3-D Theatricals with five awards four for Parade and one for Shrek the Musical. The Chance Theater and La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts took home three awards each including Best Season for La Mirada Circle X Theatre Company, the Fountain Theatre, and the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble tied with two each.
- 11/4/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Check out an exclusive clip for documentary "Aka Doc Pomus," on legendary New York songwriter Doc Pomus, which hit theaters in New York October 4, and opens in Los Angeles October 11.Brooklyn Jew Pomus started out as an improbable blues singer inspired by Joe Turner, and wound up a Brill Building songwriter who churned out more than 1000 songs with a series of collaborators over the years. He churned out many classics (“Save the Last Dance for Me,” “This Magic Moment,” "Little Sister," “A Teenager in Love,” “Viva Las Vegas,” and hundreds of other hits). This new doc sheds light on the man behind the lyrics. Revered in the music community for his generosity and charity to the less fortunate, Pomus suffered from polio from an early age and through most of his life was confined to crutches and a wheelchair. Yet during his sixty-five years he managed to work with the likes of Bob Dylan,...
- 10/7/2013
- by Anne Thompson and Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Actordirector and noted August Wilson interpreter Ruben Santiago-Hudson directs a revival staging of Wilson's Jitney tonight as part of a live webcast series presenting the ten 20th century cycle plays by the two-time Pulitzer-winner, following successful presentations of Ma Rainey'S Black Bottom and Fences last month as well as Joe Turner'S Come And Gone and The Piano Lesson so far this month.
- 9/16/2013
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
Actordirector and noted August Wilson interpreter Ruben Santiago-Hudson directs a revival staging of Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Piano Lesson tonight as part of a live webcast series presenting the ten 20th century cycle plays by the two-time Pulitzer-winner, following successful presentations of Ma Rainey'S Black Bottom and Fences last month as well as Joe Turner'S Come And Gone last week.
- 9/9/2013
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
Sundance is always on the move. Skywalker and George Lucas himself are refocusing on the indies and choosing sound design as their point of entry.
Sundance Institute and Skywalker Sound recently announced that the Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Labs at Skywalker Sound will take place at Skywalker Ranch in 2013 and 2014 and also listed the artists that will participate in the 2013 Labs. This is the first time the two organizations will collaborate to support independent filmmakers and film composers and marks a significant expansion of the Institute’s existing Composers Labs to include sound design.
The Institute has hosted its Composers Labs at Sundance Resort for fiction feature films since 1999 and documentaries since 2005, allowing composers and independent filmmakers to collaboratively explore the process of writing music for film. Fellows also participate in workshops and creative exercises under the guidance of leading film composers and film music professionals acting as Creative Advisors.
Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute, said, “Hosting the Composers Labs at Skywalker Ranch allows an expansion of the program to include sound design, giving further insight into the powerful ways that sound and music can impact independent films. We are deeply grateful to the Skywalker team for working with us to provide our Fellows with the tremendous benefit of accessing this legendary facility”
Josh Lowden, General Manager of Skywalker Sound, said, “We’re very excited to formalize this relationship. Sundance Institute is virtually synonymous with independent film, and Keri and her team have done an amazing job to honor the Institute’s legacy. Twenty-five years ago Skywalker was founded by a filmmaker for filmmakers, and we have never forgotten our roots. We continue to believe in independent filmmaking, and are thrilled to deepen our relationship with the Institute by hosting these Labs at Skywalker.”
The Composers Lab for fiction feature films is a joint initiative of the Institute’s Film Music Program and Feature Film Program, and the Composers Lab for documentaries is hosted by the Film Music Program and Documentary Film Program and Fund.
Peter Golub, Director of the Sundance Institute Film Music Program, said, “Skywalker Sound is a leader in the field of post-production and sound design, and their world-class facilities offer the ideal environment for our Composers Labs. Lab fellows will have access to Skywalker’s sound designers and mixers for ongoing collaboration, as well as the state-of-the-art facility during their stay.”
Artists and projects selected for the 2013 Sundance Music And Sound Design Lab – Documentary (June 3-10) are:
Filmmakers
Director: Kirsten Johnson
A Blind Eye (U.S.) — The voice of an American camerawoman explores the nature of cinematography and what she has failed to see while filming in Afghanistan through her encounters with two Afghan teenagers. Najeeb, a one-eyed boy, struggles to hide what really haunts him, while a bold teenage girl must decide how much she will risk to be visible. A U.S. Military surveillance blimp in the sky over Kabul tracks their every move.
Director: Judith Ehrlich
Open (U.S.) — The fight for free speech in the 21st century is being fought in cyberspace, and its most dramatic story may be unfolding in Iceland. Open follows trailblazing Internet revolutionary Birgitta Jónsdóttir and three generations of digital “hacktivists” as their stories converge in the tiny island nation now poised to become the world’s first haven for freedom of information and transparency online and off.
Director: Thomas Allen Harris
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (U.S.) — A 90-minute documentary film with an innovative companion transmedia project that explores the ways black communities have used the medium of photography to construct political, aesthetic and cultural representations of themselves and their world. This will be the first film to vividly bring to life the individual photographers, photographic collectives, and anonymous and celebrated subjects, whose work has transformed the lives of African Americans through the magic and power of the camera lens.
Director: Mark Grieco
Marmato (Canada/Colombia) — A peaceful gold-mining town in rural Colombia confronts destruction by a Canadian multinational mining company.
Composers
Kathryn Bostic
Kathryn Bostic is a prolific composer, pianist and singer-songwriter. She is a recipient of several awards and fellowships including the Sundance Fellowship for Feature Film Scoring, Bmi Conducting Fellowship and the Ascap Musical Theatre Workshop. She has written for both off-Broadway and Broadway productions. Currently her score can be heard in the Mark Taper production of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
Omar Fadel
Los Angeles-based composer Omar Fadel has carved out a niche fusing an eclectic palette of musical instruments and styles. He has scored numerous features films, documentaries and television shows, including Walt Disney Studios’ first ever Arabic language feature film, The United.
Miles Jay
Miles Jay is a composer, contrabassist, and multi-instrumentalist with many traditional and cross over artists around the world. Supporting himself as a musician around the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa for much of the last decade, Miles has re-imagined the contrabass, adapting a wide range of melodic ornamentation to his own technique, as well as having invented and hand-built a new type of contrabass utilizing rawhide for a soundboard. Miles has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Emirates Palace Abu Dhabi, Ted, and the United Nations.
Todd Reynolds
Todd Reynolds is a long-time New York violinist for Bang on a Can, Steve Reich, Broadway, and founder of the string quartet known as Ethel. His double CD set, Outerborough, rose to "best in classical" on the Amazon classical charts of 2011. A classical violinist 'gone horribly wrong', his genre-defying and technologically savvy music and performances have been called "a charming, multi-mood extravaganza, playful like Milhaud, but hard-edged like Hendrix."
Artists and projects selected for the 2013 Sundance Music And Sound Design Lab – Feature Film (July 10-25) are:
Filmmakers
Writer/director: Miguel Calderón
Zeus (Mexico) — Sporadically employed and still living with his mother, Joel finds his only joy in falconry in the flatlands outside Mexico City, until an encounter with a down-to-earth secretary forces him to face reality.
Writer/director: Meredith Danluck
State Like Sleep (U.S.A.) — Under the surreal cloud cover of northern Europe, a young American widow reluctantly revisits her past when her mother is hospitalized in Brussels. While coping with the bleak reality of parental loss, Katherine explores her deceased husband's secret life of underground sex clubs and finds comfort in a relationship with a stranger as equally broken as she is.
Co-writer/co-director: Ian Hendrie
Co-writer/co-director: Jyson McLean
Mercy Road (U.S.A.) — Based on true events, Mercy Road traces the spiritual odyssey of a small town housewife and mother, as she becomes willing to commit violence and murder in the name of God.
Writer/director: K’naan
Maanokoobiyo (Somalia/U.S.A.) — In war-torn Somalia, an artistic orphan named Maano joins the mercenary killing squad of a notorious warlord, only to discover his adoptive father and gang leader is responsible for wiping out his family.
Writer/director: Pamela Romanowsky
The Adderall Diaries (U.S.A.) — Writer Stephen Elliott reaches a low point when his estranged father resurfaces, claiming that Stephen has fabricated much of the dark childhood that that fuels his work. Adrift in the precarious grey area of memory, Stephen has to navigate the unstable terrain of truth and identity, led by two sources of inspiration: a new romance, and a murder trial that reminds him more than a little of his own story. Based on the memoir by Stephen Elliott.
Co-writer/director: Eva Weber
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (UK/Germany/U.S.A.) — Twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa discovers on the day of her father's funeral that everything she believed about her life was a lie. She flees San Francisco and travels to the Arctic Circle to uncover the secrets of her mother, who mysteriously vanished when Clarissa was fourteen. Based on the novel by Vendela Vida.
Composers
Jongnic Bontemps
Jongnic Bontemps has had the pleasure to score numerous films, including award-winning Daughter of Fortune, A Different Tree, Soaring on Invisible Wings and Saudade. Jongnic's scores incorporate ethnic instruments with organic and synthetic textures to create a unique musical world for a film. This skill has been honed through his music education at Yale University, Berklee School of Music and the University of Southern California and his collaborations with some of the top film composers. Jongnic's scores have been heard at film festivals around the world including Cannes, The Pan African Film Festival, American Black Film Festival and Run & Shoot Martha's Vineyard
Larry Goldings
Larry Goldings is a Grammy-nominated pianist, organist, composer, and arranger, whose talents have been sought-after by an impressive range of artists including James Taylor, Norah Jones, John Mayer, Sia Furler, Madeleine Peyroux, Maceo Parker, Michael Brecker, and John Scofield.
Lucas Lechowski
Based in Los Angeles, Polish born Lucas Lechowski is a violinist/guitarist who creates music, experiments with sounds, improvises and performs. His recent film scoring credits include a 2013 Student Academy Award winner “Un mundo para Raúl” (dir. Mauro Mueller). Currently he is composing music for a two-hour NBC News television special commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of President Kennedy, entitled "Where Were You?"
Heather McIntosh
Heather McIntosh is a cellist, bassist and composer who got her musical start playing with the Elephant 6 collective in Athens, Georgia and continued on to perform with artists such as Gnarls Barkley and Lil Wayne. Recently relocated to Los Angeles, her film credits include Compliance by Craig Zobel and The Rambler by Calvin Lee Reeder.
Vladimir Podgoretsky
Vladimir Podgoretsky started his professional career as a musical theater composer. His 2007 ballet Snow Maiden (Snegurochka) was a huge success and continues to be regularly performed in theaters throughout Moscow. Vladimir moved to the Us to become a film composer and after graduating from the UCLA film scoring program has been working with leading composers on films such as Rise of the Guardians, A Single Shot, The Eagle, Season Of the Witch and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. He has also worked on the acclaimed video game World of Warcraft and the ABC TV series Revenge.
Mac Quayle
A resident of Topanga Canyon, California, Mac Quayle has written music for over 20 films and television shows and accumulated a long list of credits as a music producer, dance remixer and multi-instrumentalist, including a Grammy nomination for producing Donna Summer. His music is heard in films such as the Indian documentary Beyond Grace and the Irish drama A Belfast Story and some of his collaborations as an additional composer appear in Drive, Spring Breakers and Only God Forgives.
The Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Labs at Skywalker Sound are made possible by Bmi, Time Warner Foundation, and the Film Music Foundation.
Sundance Institute
Founded by Robert Redford in 1981, Sundance Institute is a global, nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to nurturing artistic expression in film and theater, and to supporting intercultural dialogue between artists and audiences. The Institute promotes independent storytelling to unite, inform and inspire, regardless of geo-political, social, religious or cultural differences. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival and its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, film composers, playwrights and theatre artists, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Amreeka, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America. Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
Skywalker Sound
Skywalker Sound, a division of Lucasfilm Ltd, is one of the largest, most versatile full-service audio post-production companies in the industry. Skywalker Sound offers comprehensive post-production services and utilizes the talents of Academy Award®-winning sound professionals working on sound design, editorial, Foley and re-recording mixes as a team. This provides filmmakers the most efficient model available for the audio post-production process. More information is available at www.skysound.com.
Lucasfilm Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Skywalker Sound, the Skywalker Sound logo, Star Wars and related properties are trademarks in the United States and/or in other countries of Lucasfilm Ltd. and/or its affiliates. © 2013 Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd. or Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved.
Sundance Institute and Skywalker Sound recently announced that the Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Labs at Skywalker Sound will take place at Skywalker Ranch in 2013 and 2014 and also listed the artists that will participate in the 2013 Labs. This is the first time the two organizations will collaborate to support independent filmmakers and film composers and marks a significant expansion of the Institute’s existing Composers Labs to include sound design.
The Institute has hosted its Composers Labs at Sundance Resort for fiction feature films since 1999 and documentaries since 2005, allowing composers and independent filmmakers to collaboratively explore the process of writing music for film. Fellows also participate in workshops and creative exercises under the guidance of leading film composers and film music professionals acting as Creative Advisors.
Keri Putnam, Executive Director of Sundance Institute, said, “Hosting the Composers Labs at Skywalker Ranch allows an expansion of the program to include sound design, giving further insight into the powerful ways that sound and music can impact independent films. We are deeply grateful to the Skywalker team for working with us to provide our Fellows with the tremendous benefit of accessing this legendary facility”
Josh Lowden, General Manager of Skywalker Sound, said, “We’re very excited to formalize this relationship. Sundance Institute is virtually synonymous with independent film, and Keri and her team have done an amazing job to honor the Institute’s legacy. Twenty-five years ago Skywalker was founded by a filmmaker for filmmakers, and we have never forgotten our roots. We continue to believe in independent filmmaking, and are thrilled to deepen our relationship with the Institute by hosting these Labs at Skywalker.”
The Composers Lab for fiction feature films is a joint initiative of the Institute’s Film Music Program and Feature Film Program, and the Composers Lab for documentaries is hosted by the Film Music Program and Documentary Film Program and Fund.
Peter Golub, Director of the Sundance Institute Film Music Program, said, “Skywalker Sound is a leader in the field of post-production and sound design, and their world-class facilities offer the ideal environment for our Composers Labs. Lab fellows will have access to Skywalker’s sound designers and mixers for ongoing collaboration, as well as the state-of-the-art facility during their stay.”
Artists and projects selected for the 2013 Sundance Music And Sound Design Lab – Documentary (June 3-10) are:
Filmmakers
Director: Kirsten Johnson
A Blind Eye (U.S.) — The voice of an American camerawoman explores the nature of cinematography and what she has failed to see while filming in Afghanistan through her encounters with two Afghan teenagers. Najeeb, a one-eyed boy, struggles to hide what really haunts him, while a bold teenage girl must decide how much she will risk to be visible. A U.S. Military surveillance blimp in the sky over Kabul tracks their every move.
Director: Judith Ehrlich
Open (U.S.) — The fight for free speech in the 21st century is being fought in cyberspace, and its most dramatic story may be unfolding in Iceland. Open follows trailblazing Internet revolutionary Birgitta Jónsdóttir and three generations of digital “hacktivists” as their stories converge in the tiny island nation now poised to become the world’s first haven for freedom of information and transparency online and off.
Director: Thomas Allen Harris
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (U.S.) — A 90-minute documentary film with an innovative companion transmedia project that explores the ways black communities have used the medium of photography to construct political, aesthetic and cultural representations of themselves and their world. This will be the first film to vividly bring to life the individual photographers, photographic collectives, and anonymous and celebrated subjects, whose work has transformed the lives of African Americans through the magic and power of the camera lens.
Director: Mark Grieco
Marmato (Canada/Colombia) — A peaceful gold-mining town in rural Colombia confronts destruction by a Canadian multinational mining company.
Composers
Kathryn Bostic
Kathryn Bostic is a prolific composer, pianist and singer-songwriter. She is a recipient of several awards and fellowships including the Sundance Fellowship for Feature Film Scoring, Bmi Conducting Fellowship and the Ascap Musical Theatre Workshop. She has written for both off-Broadway and Broadway productions. Currently her score can be heard in the Mark Taper production of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
Omar Fadel
Los Angeles-based composer Omar Fadel has carved out a niche fusing an eclectic palette of musical instruments and styles. He has scored numerous features films, documentaries and television shows, including Walt Disney Studios’ first ever Arabic language feature film, The United.
Miles Jay
Miles Jay is a composer, contrabassist, and multi-instrumentalist with many traditional and cross over artists around the world. Supporting himself as a musician around the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa for much of the last decade, Miles has re-imagined the contrabass, adapting a wide range of melodic ornamentation to his own technique, as well as having invented and hand-built a new type of contrabass utilizing rawhide for a soundboard. Miles has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Emirates Palace Abu Dhabi, Ted, and the United Nations.
Todd Reynolds
Todd Reynolds is a long-time New York violinist for Bang on a Can, Steve Reich, Broadway, and founder of the string quartet known as Ethel. His double CD set, Outerborough, rose to "best in classical" on the Amazon classical charts of 2011. A classical violinist 'gone horribly wrong', his genre-defying and technologically savvy music and performances have been called "a charming, multi-mood extravaganza, playful like Milhaud, but hard-edged like Hendrix."
Artists and projects selected for the 2013 Sundance Music And Sound Design Lab – Feature Film (July 10-25) are:
Filmmakers
Writer/director: Miguel Calderón
Zeus (Mexico) — Sporadically employed and still living with his mother, Joel finds his only joy in falconry in the flatlands outside Mexico City, until an encounter with a down-to-earth secretary forces him to face reality.
Writer/director: Meredith Danluck
State Like Sleep (U.S.A.) — Under the surreal cloud cover of northern Europe, a young American widow reluctantly revisits her past when her mother is hospitalized in Brussels. While coping with the bleak reality of parental loss, Katherine explores her deceased husband's secret life of underground sex clubs and finds comfort in a relationship with a stranger as equally broken as she is.
Co-writer/co-director: Ian Hendrie
Co-writer/co-director: Jyson McLean
Mercy Road (U.S.A.) — Based on true events, Mercy Road traces the spiritual odyssey of a small town housewife and mother, as she becomes willing to commit violence and murder in the name of God.
Writer/director: K’naan
Maanokoobiyo (Somalia/U.S.A.) — In war-torn Somalia, an artistic orphan named Maano joins the mercenary killing squad of a notorious warlord, only to discover his adoptive father and gang leader is responsible for wiping out his family.
Writer/director: Pamela Romanowsky
The Adderall Diaries (U.S.A.) — Writer Stephen Elliott reaches a low point when his estranged father resurfaces, claiming that Stephen has fabricated much of the dark childhood that that fuels his work. Adrift in the precarious grey area of memory, Stephen has to navigate the unstable terrain of truth and identity, led by two sources of inspiration: a new romance, and a murder trial that reminds him more than a little of his own story. Based on the memoir by Stephen Elliott.
Co-writer/director: Eva Weber
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (UK/Germany/U.S.A.) — Twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa discovers on the day of her father's funeral that everything she believed about her life was a lie. She flees San Francisco and travels to the Arctic Circle to uncover the secrets of her mother, who mysteriously vanished when Clarissa was fourteen. Based on the novel by Vendela Vida.
Composers
Jongnic Bontemps
Jongnic Bontemps has had the pleasure to score numerous films, including award-winning Daughter of Fortune, A Different Tree, Soaring on Invisible Wings and Saudade. Jongnic's scores incorporate ethnic instruments with organic and synthetic textures to create a unique musical world for a film. This skill has been honed through his music education at Yale University, Berklee School of Music and the University of Southern California and his collaborations with some of the top film composers. Jongnic's scores have been heard at film festivals around the world including Cannes, The Pan African Film Festival, American Black Film Festival and Run & Shoot Martha's Vineyard
Larry Goldings
Larry Goldings is a Grammy-nominated pianist, organist, composer, and arranger, whose talents have been sought-after by an impressive range of artists including James Taylor, Norah Jones, John Mayer, Sia Furler, Madeleine Peyroux, Maceo Parker, Michael Brecker, and John Scofield.
Lucas Lechowski
Based in Los Angeles, Polish born Lucas Lechowski is a violinist/guitarist who creates music, experiments with sounds, improvises and performs. His recent film scoring credits include a 2013 Student Academy Award winner “Un mundo para Raúl” (dir. Mauro Mueller). Currently he is composing music for a two-hour NBC News television special commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of President Kennedy, entitled "Where Were You?"
Heather McIntosh
Heather McIntosh is a cellist, bassist and composer who got her musical start playing with the Elephant 6 collective in Athens, Georgia and continued on to perform with artists such as Gnarls Barkley and Lil Wayne. Recently relocated to Los Angeles, her film credits include Compliance by Craig Zobel and The Rambler by Calvin Lee Reeder.
Vladimir Podgoretsky
Vladimir Podgoretsky started his professional career as a musical theater composer. His 2007 ballet Snow Maiden (Snegurochka) was a huge success and continues to be regularly performed in theaters throughout Moscow. Vladimir moved to the Us to become a film composer and after graduating from the UCLA film scoring program has been working with leading composers on films such as Rise of the Guardians, A Single Shot, The Eagle, Season Of the Witch and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. He has also worked on the acclaimed video game World of Warcraft and the ABC TV series Revenge.
Mac Quayle
A resident of Topanga Canyon, California, Mac Quayle has written music for over 20 films and television shows and accumulated a long list of credits as a music producer, dance remixer and multi-instrumentalist, including a Grammy nomination for producing Donna Summer. His music is heard in films such as the Indian documentary Beyond Grace and the Irish drama A Belfast Story and some of his collaborations as an additional composer appear in Drive, Spring Breakers and Only God Forgives.
The Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Labs at Skywalker Sound are made possible by Bmi, Time Warner Foundation, and the Film Music Foundation.
Sundance Institute
Founded by Robert Redford in 1981, Sundance Institute is a global, nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to nurturing artistic expression in film and theater, and to supporting intercultural dialogue between artists and audiences. The Institute promotes independent storytelling to unite, inform and inspire, regardless of geo-political, social, religious or cultural differences. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival and its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, film composers, playwrights and theatre artists, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Amreeka, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America. Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
Skywalker Sound
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- 6/6/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Bernardo Bertolucci, Jeanette Winterson and Paul Weller also among 75 public figures revealing favourite works
BBC Radio 4 is lining up 75 leading public figures, including film director Bernardo Bertolucci, singer Paul Weller and novelist Jeanette Winterson, to reveal their most treasured cultural influences for what the station claims will be one of the most comprehensive arts events broadcast.
The network has already confirmed 30 names for the project, Cultural Exchange, which will see individuals selecting a single item to talk about, with the choices ranging from the King James Bible to an obscure 1960s album.
It will feature every weekday on Front Row until the end of July.
Artist Tracey Emin will launch the series on 22 April with her insights into a Vermeer painting – Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid. She describes Vermeer as "one of the first feminists", pointing to the unusual and fascinating way he depicted women. "He showed that...
BBC Radio 4 is lining up 75 leading public figures, including film director Bernardo Bertolucci, singer Paul Weller and novelist Jeanette Winterson, to reveal their most treasured cultural influences for what the station claims will be one of the most comprehensive arts events broadcast.
The network has already confirmed 30 names for the project, Cultural Exchange, which will see individuals selecting a single item to talk about, with the choices ranging from the King James Bible to an obscure 1960s album.
It will feature every weekday on Front Row until the end of July.
Artist Tracey Emin will launch the series on 22 April with her insights into a Vermeer painting – Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid. She describes Vermeer as "one of the first feminists", pointing to the unusual and fascinating way he depicted women. "He showed that...
- 4/17/2013
- by Ben Dowell
- The Guardian - Film News
AMC’s latest feature is with Chad L. Coleman, who plays Tyreese on The Walking Dead. In this Q&A, he talks about being the new actor on-set, his previous Army experience, and being able to co-exist with different groups of people like his character:
via AMC- “Q: You’re one of many new characters on-set this year. What helped you get up to speed?
A: Well, Danai [Gurira] and I had done Broadway together; August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan. So we already had a relationship and that helped. But everybody was just amazingly good people. It was just easy that way. Many of them were fans of The Wire, and on some level it helps when people appreciate what you do and know your work.
Q: Are your survival skills in any way comparable to Tyreese’s?
A: I spent...
via AMC- “Q: You’re one of many new characters on-set this year. What helped you get up to speed?
A: Well, Danai [Gurira] and I had done Broadway together; August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan. So we already had a relationship and that helped. But everybody was just amazingly good people. It was just easy that way. Many of them were fans of The Wire, and on some level it helps when people appreciate what you do and know your work.
Q: Are your survival skills in any way comparable to Tyreese’s?
A: I spent...
- 3/18/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Versatile guitarist who had a million-selling hit with Love Is Strange
Mickey Baker, who has died aged 87, was one of the most versatile and prolific guitarists of his era. During the 1950s, any producer making R&B or rock'n'roll records in New York would have Baker's name in his contacts book, and he played on innumerable sessions for Atlantic, Savoy and other labels, accompanying vocal groups including the Drifters and the Coasters and blues singers such as Champion Jack Dupree, Nappy Brown and Lavern Baker. Among the many hit records to which he made original and distinctive contributions were Ruth Brown's (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean, the Coasters' I'm a Hog for You and Joe Turner's Shake, Rattle and Roll.
Inspired by the successful model of the guitarist Les Paul and the singer Mary Ford, he formed a duo with the singer Sylvia Vanderpool (later Sylvia Robinson...
Mickey Baker, who has died aged 87, was one of the most versatile and prolific guitarists of his era. During the 1950s, any producer making R&B or rock'n'roll records in New York would have Baker's name in his contacts book, and he played on innumerable sessions for Atlantic, Savoy and other labels, accompanying vocal groups including the Drifters and the Coasters and blues singers such as Champion Jack Dupree, Nappy Brown and Lavern Baker. Among the many hit records to which he made original and distinctive contributions were Ruth Brown's (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean, the Coasters' I'm a Hog for You and Joe Turner's Shake, Rattle and Roll.
Inspired by the successful model of the guitarist Les Paul and the singer Mary Ford, he formed a duo with the singer Sylvia Vanderpool (later Sylvia Robinson...
- 12/2/2012
- by Tony Russell
- The Guardian - Film News
Danai Gurira best known for her role of Michonne on The Walking Dead has been awarded the Whiting Writers Award. For those who may not be familiar Gurira who made her broadway debut in 2010 in Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson is quite the accomplished playwright. She co-wrote In the Continuum with Nikkole Salter which received the Obie Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for writing. Gurira also recieved a Helen Hayes Award for her performance in In The Contiuum. Other work written by Gurira includes Eclipsed and The Convert. Another woman of color honored was Sharifa Rhodes-Pitt a fiction writer. Rhodes-Pitt graduated from Harvard and was a...
- 10/24/2012
- by Natasha Greeves
- ShadowAndAct
Bruce Norris' darkly comic play "A Parallelogram" and Sebastian Berry's "The Steward of Christendom," starring Brian Dennehy, are among the five productions slated for Center Theatre Group's 2013 season at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Ctg Artistic Director Michael Ritchie announced on Wednesday. The season also includes Nina Raine's off-Broadway hit "Tribes," directed by David Cromer; a revival of August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," directed by stage and screen actress Phylicia Rashad; and a revival of Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw," directed by Anna D. Shapiro. "A...
- 8/22/2012
- by Kasia Anderson
- The Wrap
New York -- Broadway's newest Little Orphan Annie has found her Sandy.
The award-winning animal trainer William Berloni on Thursday unveiled the pooch who is slated to star in the Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning musical "Annie" – Sunny, a 2-year-old female terrier mix rescued from a city pound in Houston.
"The most talented animals are right there under your nose," said Berloni, who makes it a point of using shelter dogs in all his projects. "The message is: Animals in shelters are not damaged, just unfortunate."
Sunny was only 24 hours away from being euthanized four months ago when Berloni spotted her photo online while conducting a nationwide search for Sandy. She had been mislabeled as male and given the name Bruno. Touched, he forwarded her photo to one of the show's producers, Arielle Tepper Madover, who wrote back, "Save her. I don't care what it costs."
"So I adopted her sight-unseen,...
The award-winning animal trainer William Berloni on Thursday unveiled the pooch who is slated to star in the Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning musical "Annie" – Sunny, a 2-year-old female terrier mix rescued from a city pound in Houston.
"The most talented animals are right there under your nose," said Berloni, who makes it a point of using shelter dogs in all his projects. "The message is: Animals in shelters are not damaged, just unfortunate."
Sunny was only 24 hours away from being euthanized four months ago when Berloni spotted her photo online while conducting a nationwide search for Sandy. She had been mislabeled as male and given the name Bruno. Touched, he forwarded her photo to one of the show's producers, Arielle Tepper Madover, who wrote back, "Save her. I don't care what it costs."
"So I adopted her sight-unseen,...
- 7/19/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson, stars of the current Broadway show "The Mountaintop," received caricatures of themselves in a ceremony at Sardi's restaurant on Thursday. Also in attendance was Jackson's wife Latanya Richardson Jackson, who recently appeared Off-Broadway in "Love, Loss, and What I Wore" and was on Broadway in the 2009 revival of "Joe Turner's Come and Gone." "The Mountaintop," by Katori Hall, won the 2010 Olivier Award for best new play during its London run. The show deals with an imagined encounter between civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and a hotel maid, who is not what she appears to be. "The Mountaintop" is playing at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, 242 W. 45th St., NYC through Jan. 22. Watch interviews with Samuel L. Jackson, Latanya Richardson Jackson, and Angela Bassett below.
- 1/13/2012
- by help@backstage.com (David Sheward)
- backstage.com
Ten years ago, Angela Bassett turned down the role in "Monster's Ball" that won Halle Berry the Best Actress Oscar. This fall, Berry was to have made her Broadway debut in a production of the Olivier-winning play "The Mountaintop" but child custody issues demanded she remain on the west coast. Bassett, a 1993 Oscar nominee for "What's Love Got to Do With It," is now set for the plum part of a maid who encounters Dr. Martin Luther King in his Memphis hotel room the night before he is assassinated in 1968. Oscar nominee Samuel L. Jackson ("Pulp Fiction") will portray the fallen leader. This marks Jackson's return to the rialto two decades after he was an understudy in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." Bassett's only previous Broadway experience was in the 1988 production of Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone." And Kenny Leon, who is to direct this production, landed a Tony bid last sea.
- 6/27/2011
- Gold Derby
Angela Bassett has signed on to play opposite Samuel L. Jackson in the Martin Luther King, Jr.-inspired play The Mountaintop. Producers Jean Doumanian and Sonia Friedman said in a statement, “These two remarkable actors have excited audiences around the world for many years, and bringing them together in this extraordinary new play on Broadway promises to be a major highlight of the season.”
Making its Broadway debut on October 13 (with performances beginning September 22), the play re-envisions the events of April 3, 1968 — the night before King was assassinated. Bassett’s mysterious hotel maid forces King to face his past and consider his legacy.
Making its Broadway debut on October 13 (with performances beginning September 22), the play re-envisions the events of April 3, 1968 — the night before King was assassinated. Bassett’s mysterious hotel maid forces King to face his past and consider his legacy.
- 6/22/2011
- by Lanford Beard
- EW.com - PopWatch
Willie Nelson can breath easy again in Texas -- TMZ has learned the singer struck a plea deal in his marijuana case ... and will Not have to do any hard time. Sources close to Willie tell us ... Nelson agreed to plead no contest to misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia ... stemming from an incident last year, when cops say they found weed on the singer's tour bus at a border checkpoint. Nelson was originally charged with...
- 6/7/2011
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
When was the last time, Angela Bassett was on stage? Well, according to the Internet Broadway Database (Ibdb.com), the last time she was on Broadway was in 1988, when she performed in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. However, the last time she was on Any stage was at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2006, where she starred alongside Laurence Fishburne in another August Wilson play, maybe he’s most popular, Fences (most recently Denzel Washington & Viola Davis performed the play on Broadway, with both winning Tony awards for their work).
Ms Bassett who actually got her start in theater, is returning to the stage to star in a production titled Pastoral, by Frank Tangredi, in which she’ll play a conflicted pastor named Emily.
Described as a drama, according to Playbill, “Pastor Emily has a dark secret, hidden from even her own son. When a terrible crisis ensues,...
Ms Bassett who actually got her start in theater, is returning to the stage to star in a production titled Pastoral, by Frank Tangredi, in which she’ll play a conflicted pastor named Emily.
Described as a drama, according to Playbill, “Pastor Emily has a dark secret, hidden from even her own son. When a terrible crisis ensues,...
- 3/16/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
They say marijuana affects your memory -- but Willie Nelson seems to remember the lawyer who got him off a weed charge 16 years ago ... because the singer just hired him for his new pot predicament. TMZ spoke with Nelson's attorney, Joe Turner , who tells us he got Willie off the hook for marijuana possession back in 1994 ... after arguing that officials performed an illegal search of the singer's vehicle. Now, Turner wants Willie's fans to know...
- 12/8/2010
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The writer of Coronation Street's tram crash episode has admitted that he only saw the dramatic edition for the first time last night. Joe Turner penned the second instalment of yesterday evening's double bill, which saw an explosion rock The Joinery and a tram crash onto the cobbles. In an interview with BBC Radio Wales, Turner confessed that he was not given an advance copy of the episode because the secrecy surrounding the storyline was so strict. He explained: "I was in the odd position of not having seen it before. Normally we get DVDs in advance, but because they were trying to keep as much secrecy as possible about it, I actually had the thrill of sitting with my family last night with a very nice bottle (more)...
- 12/7/2010
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
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