The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was Will Smith’s vehicle. It showed he could be an actor. Even though he was playing a character named Will Smith, the role was actually based on creator Benny Medina. Smith did all right after the show but one of his standout costars was Alfonso Ribeiro as cousin Carlton.
Alfonso Ribeiro | Chris Haston/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
If you were a Ribeiro fan on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and haven’t seen much of him since, Showbiz Cheat Sheet is here to help. Ribeiro did not disappear after Fresh Prince ended in 1996, so here’s where you can find him today.
Alfonso Ribeiro before ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’
Compared to Smith, Ribeiro was already a veteran actor by the time Fresh Prince of Bel-Air began in 1989. Ribeiro appeared on the sitcom Silver Spoons as a character named Alfonso. Silver Spoons let...
Alfonso Ribeiro | Chris Haston/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
If you were a Ribeiro fan on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and haven’t seen much of him since, Showbiz Cheat Sheet is here to help. Ribeiro did not disappear after Fresh Prince ended in 1996, so here’s where you can find him today.
Alfonso Ribeiro before ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’
Compared to Smith, Ribeiro was already a veteran actor by the time Fresh Prince of Bel-Air began in 1989. Ribeiro appeared on the sitcom Silver Spoons as a character named Alfonso. Silver Spoons let...
- 3/23/2023
- by Fred Topel
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
An Original Voice
“We didn’t get mad, we got smart,” HBO CEO Michael Fuchs said about hitting The Wall, looking back at HBO stalling in 1984 from the vantage of the early 1990s. Actually, a lot of the rank and file didn’t get mad or smart; we’d seen 125 of our friends and colleagues get shown the door when the company had suddenly flatlined after eight years of phenomenal growth, and what we got was scared.
But it’s to the credit of HBO’s execs that whatever anxieties they may have had, they showed no panic or even nervousness in public. Instead, they poured any concerns into energetically and immediately addressing the question of, “What do we do now?” The world we knew had changed and there was no going back to the Gold Rush days of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The company required a humongous...
“We didn’t get mad, we got smart,” HBO CEO Michael Fuchs said about hitting The Wall, looking back at HBO stalling in 1984 from the vantage of the early 1990s. Actually, a lot of the rank and file didn’t get mad or smart; we’d seen 125 of our friends and colleagues get shown the door when the company had suddenly flatlined after eight years of phenomenal growth, and what we got was scared.
But it’s to the credit of HBO’s execs that whatever anxieties they may have had, they showed no panic or even nervousness in public. Instead, they poured any concerns into energetically and immediately addressing the question of, “What do we do now?” The world we knew had changed and there was no going back to the Gold Rush days of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The company required a humongous...
- 10/11/2013
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
It’s Boardwalk Empire Season 2 time! This week’s episode: “21″. Is this a Mario Brothers-esque allusion to “Season 2, Episode 1,” or is this week’s episode a really far in advance prequel to that Kevin Spacey blackjack movie? After all the ultragraphic violence and sex and twists and turns and gangsters and “Hey I’m Al Capone” and old timey music and cheating and backstabbing and facestabbing and conniving and liquor and surprise square-agent babies in Season 1, how is Terence Winter gonna top it in Season 2? Wait, did I DVR the right show? Brief nudity? Ahhh, I must’ve mistakenly taped an episode of Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales For Every Child. It’s the Princess and the Pea, but the pea is Asian. Well, we’re here, might as well recap it. Lots of Guns and Boobs and Photoshopped Word Balloons after the jump: Season 2 of Boardwalk Empire kicks off...
- 9/26/2011
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
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