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A chat with Common about ‘LUV,’ music and Baltimore
Newcomer Michael Rainey Jr. stars with Common in “LUV.” Photo: Indomina Releasing To music fans, Common will always be the thoughtful hip-hop poet who has been tossing out socially conscious rhymes for two decades. But since 2007, when he popped up in the Jeremy Piven crime drama “Smokin’ Aces,” the Chicago native who, as the public learned in 2011, has a fan in First Lady Michelle Obama, has been exploring his thespian side. They’ve been mostly small roles in movies such as the Tina Fey comedy “Date Night” and the family drama “The Odd Life of Timothy Green,”… >>
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Atlanta-shot ‘Steel Magnolias’ remake debuting on Lifetime Sunday, Oct. 7
The 1989 film “Steel Magnolias,” an appealing ode to female bonding and the frailty of life, developed a beloved fan base and rewarded Julia Roberts with her first Academy Award nomination. Robert Harling , who wrote the original play in 1987, was thrilled to see his stage version continue to be revived the next two decades. But he wondered if there was a viable way to get it back on screen — this time with a black cast. Enter Craig Zadan and Neil Meron , a duo who produced the Emmy-nominated version of “A Raisin in the Sun” with Atlanta director Kenny… >>
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The ‘Perks’ of having a great movie soundtrack
Chbosky on set with Watson and Lerman. Photo: Courtesy Summit Entertainment There is so much to love about Stephen Chbosky’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” which opened at the Tara and LeFont Sandy Springs last week. Aside from the gut-wrenching performances by Logan Lerman, Emma Watson and Ezra Miller and the alternately heartbreaking and exhilarating story by Chbosky, there is the music. Movie fans who grew up in the John Hughes era remember how every soundtrack from his films delivered one of those songs that changed your life as a teenager. “Wallflower” should do the same for… >>
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Fall in love with movies at Out on Film
Love is in the air at the 25th Out on Film, Atlanta’s LGBT film festival, Oct. 4-11 at Landmark’s Midtown Art Cinema. I don’t know when I’ve seen so much romance in a queer festival. There’s young love, old love, lesbian love, gay love, baby love, kinky love, married love, platonic love, coercive love, transformative love… Oh, there’s politics too, but that’s mostly confined to the documentary section, or woven in with the love stories. All films (with exceptions noted) screen at Midtown Art Cinema (931 Monroe Drive, Atlanta GA 30308). >>
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Four single men with royal ties seek eligible Atlanta women in TLC’s ‘Secret Princes’
(Left-right) Lord Robert Walters of England, Prince Salauddin Babi of India, Honorable Ludovic Watson and Prince Francisco of Spain. CREDIT: TLC In 1988, Eddie Murphy generated a huge hit with “Coming to America.” He played an African prince who comes to the United States, pretends to be poor and nets a woman who falls in love with him and not his title. Nearly a quarter century later, TLC has taken that concept and turned it into a reality TV show “Secret Princes,” shot over the summer in Atlanta and debuting Friday at 9 p.m. It’s based on a… >>
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Phillip Phillips’ ‘Home’ gets love in Clint Eastwood film trailer (’Trouble With the Curve’)
Phillip Phillips at Gwinnett Arena on August 5, 2012. CREDIT: Rodney Ho/[email protected] I was watching TV yesterday and saw a trailer for the Clint Eastwood film “Trouble With the Curve,” which was shot in Atlanta earlier this year and it features Phillip Phillips ‘ “Home.” NBC used the song for the U.S. women’s gymnastics team, propelling the song to No. 1 on iTunes last week. Eastwood plays an aging Atlanta Braves scout who is struggling to connect with his daughter, played by Amy Adams. Justin Timberlake, John Goodman and Robert Patrick are also part of the film. It… >>
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[Video] ‘Drag Race’ winner Tyra Sanchez, gay filmmaker work toward new documentary
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Tyra Sanchez of Atlanta, winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” season two, is hoping you’ll remember her name for reasons beyond her reality TV triumph. She’s teamed up with gay filmmaker Björn Flóki to make a documentary called “Drag Dad” about balancing life as a drag superstar on stage and a single parent off. During the “Drag Race” season that ran February through April 2010, rumors of Sanchez’s life before the show littered the internet, some of which were true: James Ross, his real name, was homeless at 17. During the first week of his senior year of high school, when he “wasn’t… >>
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Weekend best bets: July 20-22
The B-52s bring their 35th anniversary tour to the Fox Theatre on Saturday, July 21. FRIDAY Sports: Catch some quality tennis in the heart of Atlanta at the BB&T Atlanta Open . This annual event is the first ATP tournament in eight-tournament series leading up the US Open, which begins Aug. 27. Quarterfinals are July 20, semi-finals July 21 and the final takes place July 22. Stage: Out of Box Theatre presents “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged),” which offers up all 37 plays in 97 minutes, at the Alley Stage at Next Stage Theatre (in the former home of Theatre in the… >>
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