Tag: The Cosby Show
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Perfectly Imperfect: 6 Layered Black Women Moving TV Forward
Respectability has been a pillar of Black American culture since Emancipation. Since Black people arrived on the shores of America, we have been subjected to hardships and cruelties based solely on our skin color. For centuries we’ve combated horrible stereotypes in our everyday lives and American popular culture. For Black women, in particular, being anything…
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How ‘Love & Basketball’ Allowed Issa Rae to Dream
Issa Rae says she had every reason to think she could be a filmmaker when she was growing up.“The ’90s had lots of black television and film … a lot of the shows were helmed by black people,” she recalls. “That’s what inspired me to at least try it.”She may have only been 5 years…
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Bill Cosby Found Guilty of Sexual Assault
Bill Cosby has been found guilty on all three counts in his retrial for sexual assault. The actor and comedian has been accused of rape, sexual assault, sexual battery, and other offenses by more than 60 women, with some of the allegations going back several decades; he has repeatedly denied the accusations against him. The…
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Lisa Bonet Speaks Out About Her TV Father, Bill Cosby – Claims “Sinister, Shadow Energy”
Lisa Bonet has commented for the first time on her television father, Bill Cosby, with whom she appeared in two of the most popular shows in the world. Playing Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show at age 16, then joining its spinoff A Different World, Bonet told the Net-a-Porter website that she had no knowledge…
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Emmy Predictions 2018: Outstanding Comedy Series
Last Year’s Winner: “Veep”Still Eligible: No.Hot Streak: “Veep” has won this award three years in a row. Before that, “Modern Family” won five years straight. “30 Rock” went back-to-back-to-back in the years immediately prior. The last show to go one and done (or won and done) was “The Office” in 2006.Fun Fact: The last comedy…