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Alfre Woodard

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    Black Version Of Steel Magnolias! Dig The Casting!

    Lifetime is doing a Steel Magnolias of color, and I'm all hopped up about the cast. Get this: In the part of Truvy, the salon owner played by Dolly Parton in the 1989 movie, they've signed the formidable Jill Scott.

  • Film

    November 3, 2010

    The Rainbow Disconnection: Tyler Perry Mangles For Colored Girls

    Lifetime is doing a Steel Magnolias of color, and I'm all hopped up about the cast. Get this: In the part of Truvy, the salon owner played by Dolly Parton in the 1989 movie, they've signed the formidable Jill Scott.

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Who Should Be In Jacko: The Movie?

    Michael Jackson's illustrious but weird life will surely be turned into a TV movie as soon as the sequins get cold. So I've been doing some imaginary casting and coming up with these fanciful yet mildly disturbing inevitabilities: As Michael: Usher. They can digitize the surgery. As the other memb ... More >>

  • Film

    April 15, 2009

    American Violet Good Hearted, Heavy Handed

    Michael Jackson's illustrious but weird life will surely be turned into a TV movie as soon as the sequins get cold. So I've been doing some imaginary casting and coming up with these fanciful yet mildly disturbing inevitabilities: As Michael: Usher. They can digitize the surgery. As the other memb ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 8, 2009

    Matt Drudge Gay? Zooey Deschanel Sane?

    LaBute's stimulating latest; Jill Hennessy in the Lymelife.

  • Columns

    September 17, 2008

    Why Tyler Perry Isn't Doing a Woman, Plus Harry Potter Horses Around

    And Mamet books Broadway revivals, and several people reveal altered states.

  • Film

    January 24, 2006

    Love Thinks: Intelligent Rom-Com a Deft Look at Race in L.A.

    And Mamet books Broadway revivals, and several people reveal altered states.

  • Music

    September 25, 2001

    How Life Isn’t Anymore

    And Mamet books Broadway revivals, and several people reveal altered states.

  • Columns

    January 12, 1999

    NY Mirror

    Definitely honor-free will be Joseph Fiennes for Shakespeare (sorry, but the Bard didn't look like Rob Lowe).

  • Film

    December 29, 1998

    The Mother Load

    Definitely honor-free will be Joseph Fiennes for Shakespeare (sorry, but the Bard didn't look like Rob Lowe).

  • Columns

    December 22, 1998

    NY Mirror

    Though the elves now rap, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular is the same as ever— like Psycho, but far more worth re-creating.

  • Film

    November 17, 1998

    Chilly Scenes

    A Winter Movie Preview
    [Some Dates Guaranteed To Change]

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