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Keith Josef Adkins
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Feb 28, 2008 11:03 AM
A few days before the Oscars I ran out to catch the 7pm showing of Persepolis. Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel turned animated film [and short-listed for an Academy Award]. I was told [or read] very little about the film except it "was good, in French,...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Feb 26, 2008 11:57 AM
I’d planned to tune in to Sean Comb’s A Raisin in the Sun last night, I mean Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin. I really intended to watch, but I spent the evening giving notes to an aspiring TV writer who was trying to hit a Thursday deadline for a Nickelodean...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Feb 25, 2008 06:53 AM
I don't know about you, but Ruby Dee was on my top-choice for Best Supporting Actress last night. And my heart split when the Academy didn't announce her name for the Oscar. I have long been a fan of Cate Blanchett, and her shape-shifting of Bob Dillon...
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Keith Josef Adkins
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Feb 22, 2008 07:14 AM
Last night I jumped on the B-Train from Brooklyn to attend a performance of LIBERTY CITY at the New York Theater Workshop. Liberty City is the new solo show written by April Yvette Thompson and Jessica Blank that explores Thompson's turbulent childhood...
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adkinsk
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Feb 19, 2008 01:35 PM
A few years ago I sat in the Royale Theater to watch Sean Combs make his Broadway debut in Raisin in the Sun. As a brother who beat the pavement with many other struggling actor-brothers, I was a bit gritty that a hip-hop mogul could trump hard-working...
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adkinsk
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Feb 18, 2008 10:47 AM
I’ve been stewing over the NAACP Image Awards for the last four days and I’ve come to this: They need to address allegations of horrid inconsistency. A bit dramatic? Maybe. A valid suggestion? Oh yeh. After Tyler Perry’s ‘House of Payne’ won Best Comedy...
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adkinsk
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Feb 15, 2008 12:22 PM
I’d like to address the significance of the NAACP Image Awards. As we all know the NAACP emerged in 1909 after the Springfield, Illinois race riots and became this country’s first civil rights organization. And now their Hollywood bureau hosts the annual...
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adkinsk
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Feb 14, 2008 02:21 PM
It’s day two after the WGA vote and most things appear back to normal. My friends over at Criminal Intent are pitching stories and writing outlines; my strike captain Judy Tate is back at Days of Our Lives, fleshing out more craziness for the town of...
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adkinsk
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Feb 13, 2008 03:46 PM
Out of the 12,000 WGA members, only 3775 members cast ballots in yesterday’s vote to end the strike. And of those, 92.5 percent voted in favor of lifting the restraining order. I'm shocked and dare I say, curious. You mean to say for the last 14 weeks...
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adkinsk
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Feb 12, 2008 10:34 AM
Today is the official day for the WGA to vote to end the strike, but many writers are already back at work, and some are home being summoned to pull out their laptops and launch Final Draft. But there's a darker side to this pre-vote frenzy. It's called...
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adkinsk
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Feb 11, 2008 11:06 AM
The WGA Strike is over! At least that's what every newspaper, network and Hollywood mogul is claiming. We certainly met on Saturday at the Crowne Plaza to discuss the tentative agreement. And some of us felt joyous, others bamboozled, and many demanded...
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adkinsk
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Feb 8, 2008 10:57 AM
Today is one of those rare days in the theater world. Rare and paramount. A musical written and performed by artists of African-descent receives its first performance on Broadway. And get this: it’s not a story set in the Deep South, it’s not a revival...
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adkinsk
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Feb 6, 2008 02:46 PM
I'm not naming any names, but a writer acquaintance of mine nearly got his glass of Shiraz poured over his sweater the other night. I'm not suggesting I was in attack mode. I'm mean, really. That would imply I had unresolved anger issues and a case of...
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adkinsk
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Feb 4, 2008 04:47 PM
Saturday evening I was setting out to meet a few playwright-friends. The plan was to sit down, grab a bite, sip a few, and do we what we do: discuss and argue the current theater scene in NYC. The horror of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner coming to Broadway...
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