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Malachi Kirby: ‘I used to go into auditions in character… I didn’t have the confidence to go in as myself’
After starring in Roots and as Darcus Howe in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, the actor is having fun in a new financial thriller and making sure his true voice is heard“I’m used to always doing dramatic work,” says 31-year-old Malachi Kirby. “There is something about my face that people must enjoy seeing crying.” The London-born […]
Continue readingWilliam Blinn, ‘Starsky & Hutch’ Creator and ‘Purple Rain’ Writer, Dies at 83
William Blinn, a longtime writer responsible for “Purple Rain” and “Starsky & Hutch,” died on Thursday. He was 83.Blinn passed away due to natural causes at an assisted living facility in Burbank, his daughter, Anneliese Johnson, told multiple media outlets.Blinn enjoyed a four-decade career where, along with penning the script for the Prince-starring film, he […]
Continue readingQuincy review – portrait of a musical legend fails to sing
Rashida Jones’s sanitised bio-documentary about her father, the musician and producer Quincy Jones, fails to exploit her access to her subjectHas any person made as indelible an imprint on African American culture as Quincy Jones? This new bio-documentary makes a compelling case for the point, though that’s the only compelling aspect of this paint-by-numbers film.Directors […]
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