Viola Davis is the first Black actress to win a Tony, Primetime Emmy and Oscar. Could a Grammy be in her future to complete that Egot? On the basis of this morning’s Netflix presentation of five clips from Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, its December 18 release of the film version of August Wilson’s first play in his Century Cycle of 10 plays, it could be possible. Although as director George C. Wolfe explained in a 40-minute conversation with Davis and moderator Nelson George, the musical aspects of this great blues story set in 1924 Chicago was indeed a collaboration led by the great Branford Marsalis, and included bringing in another singer to augment Davis’ own vocals on some of the songs.
That said, another Oscar nomination seems entirely possible for Davis, who won her Supporting Actress Academy Award, and a Tony on Broadway, for her performance opposite Denzel Washington in...
That said, another Oscar nomination seems entirely possible for Davis, who won her Supporting Actress Academy Award, and a Tony on Broadway, for her performance opposite Denzel Washington in...
- 10/19/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Barbara Meek, who played Archie Bunker’s housekeeper on a spinoff of All in the Family, has died. She was 81. The Trinity Repertory Company of Providence, R.I., announced her death on Saturday on its Facebook page. Meek appeared in more than 100 productions on its stages since she joined the Trinity Rep in 1968 with her late husband, Martin Molson. No other details of her death were immediately available. The Detroit native also had a regular role as a recently widowed foster mother on Big Brother Jake, a 1990-94 Family Channel sitcom that starred fitness entrepreneur Jake Steinfeld,
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- 10/5/2015
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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