McQueen And I is the dramatic story of Alexander McQueen’s rise to fashion stardom, his relationship with his eccentric, aristocratic muse and patron Isabella Blow, and of both their tragic suicides. Continue reading
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8/8/15 O&A Coming Attractions With WaleStylez: Vin Diesel- The Last Witch Hunter
Vin Diesel returns to the big screen as Kaulder the upcoming fantasy flick The Last Witch Hunter. Diesel plays an immortal witch hunter cursed by a supernatural being, leaving him to chase after rogue witches and other celestial creatures in an alternate universe. Directed by Breck Eisner, The Last Witch Hunter also stars Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie, Olafur Darri Olafsson and Julie Englebrecht. The movie will be released in theaters on October 23, just in time for Halloween. Continue reading
8/3/15 O&A Song Of The Day: Ciara- I Bet
I Bet is a song by Ciara from her sixth studio album, Jackie (2015). Released as the lead single from the album by Epic Records on January 26, 2015, I Bet serves as Ciara’s first single following the birth of her first child and widely publicized break-up with American rapper Future. Continue reading
7/16/15 O&A Throwback Thursday: Céline Dion- My Heart Will Go On
My Heart Will Go On, also called the “Love Theme from Titanic”, is the main theme song to the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic. The song became Celine Dion’s biggest hit, and one of the best-selling singles of all time, and was the world’s best-selling single of 1998. Due to the song’s widespread popularity it has become Dion’s signature song. Continue reading
7/6/15 O&A Hollywood Monday: Halle Berry- Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (excerpts)
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is the 1999 biography of Dorothy Dandridge follows her career through early days on the club circuit with her sister to her turn in movies, including becoming the first black actress to win a Best Actress Nomination in 1954 for “Carmen Jones”, to her death from prescription drugs, which remains debated whether it was suicide or accidental. In 2000 production won five Emmy Awards including Outstanding Art Direction, Cinematography, Costumes, Hairstyling and Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie—Halle Berry. Continue reading
6/22/15 O&A Picks Of The Week June 21- June 27: Art, Dance, Film, Music, and Theatre
Summer is finally here! And it has ushered in a whirlwind of arts events. We have fine art, dance, film, music and theatre; something for everyone. Here are a few of the many events happening in the city that never sleeps guaranteed to keep you Out and About. Continue reading
9/22/17 O&A Shall We Dance: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers – Top Hat
Top Hat was the most successful picture of Astaire and Rogers’ partnership (and Astaire’s second most successful picture after Easter Parade), achieving second place in worldwide box-office receipts for 1935. While some dance critics maintain that Swing Time contained a finer set of dances, Top Hat remains, to this day, the partnership’s best-known work. Continue reading
5/30/15 O&A Its Saturday – Anything Goes: Nina Simone- The Legend
Nina Simone, singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist, the High Priestess Of Soul was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; 21 February 1933, Tryon, North Carolina. Her musical style arose from a fusion of Gospel and Pop songs with Classical Music, in particular with influences from her first inspiration and father of all modern music, Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied with her expressive Jazz-like singing in her characteristic contralto.
Nina Simone, candid interview from the legendary Singer plus concert footage.
The Legend- Nina Simone
Hollywood Monday: Vin Diesel- Multi-Facial (1995)
Multi-Facial is a 1995 short film directed, written, produced, scored by and starring the 22 year old Vin Diesel. The story depicts the professional and emotional issues faced by Mike (Diesel), a multiracial (Italian and African American) actor. The twenty-minute film is semi-autobiographical, drawing on Vin Diesel’s own frustration trying to find work as an actor of mixed ethnicity. The film was noticed by director Steven Spielberg, who would cast Diesel in Saving Private Ryan (1998).
Multi Facial
In the early 1990s, Diesel returned from Los Angeles to New York, frustrated with his failures in Hollywood. Diesel’s mother gave him a copy of Feature Films at Used Car Prices, a book about producing low-budget movies. Diesel said that he found the book “truly empowering,” and it motivated him to make his own movies and wrote the script for Multi-Facial in five days. He produced and directed the film, shooting it over the course of three days for three thousand dollars.
Vin Diesel also wrote and performed music for the film. However, Diesel became disillusioned by the response to the film and stopped work on it. With encouragement from his stepfather, Diesel finished the final edit and screened the film at the Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan. He received a strong response, and the film was accepted for the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. The film was screened to standing-room only crowds.
The closing audition scene in the film is unexpectedly emotional, and effortlessly, it organically concludes the themes built up throughout the film. A great showcase for Diesel, the film works amazingly well cinematically, making it one of the great short films on acting ever made.
NEVER GIVE UP YOUR DREAM !
5/13/15 O&A Wildin Out Wednesday: Mulignans
Brooklyn favorite and budding dramedy maven Shaka King got invited to Park City, Utah’s 2015 Sundance Film Festival with his unruffled humor layered in gutsy slurs. Mulignans borrows from the world of New York gangster flicks to confront unequal portrayals in Hollywood. Director King portrays social roles and race through the comic lens in a shocking, but funny race reversal. Continue reading
