May 16 2013

Hollywood By Choice

We all know that Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey are BFFs, and if you’re like me, you’ve been waiting for his latest offerings that will air on OWN, Winfrey’s Network. First up, Perry’s first dramatic series, “The Have and Have Nots,” premiering May 28.

The show follows the complicated dynamics between the rich and powerful Cryer family and the hired help who work in their opulent Savannah, Ga., mansion.

This is a familiar story line, and Perry is going to have to bring it to keep viewers watching.

May 16 2013

Virtual images — not holograms

As Ol’ Dirty Bastard rhymes in “Brooklyn Zoo II,” “When you take north, east, west, south/and put it all together and it spell newwwwws!”

Know what else spell(s) news? A star-powered hip-hop festival announcing that two rap legends — not figurative legends, mind you; one’s been dead eight years, the other 18 — will perform this fall.

May 15 2013

It'll be in 3-D

“Angry Birds” will soon arrive at your local movie theater — and they’ll be in 3-D.

Sony Pictures announced Wednesday that the studio’s acquired rights for the animated film, which will be developed, financed and produced by Rovio Entertainment, the creator of the addictive “Angry Birds” game.

Rovio masterminded the top-selling mobile app, which has users fire birds at pigs with a slingshot in an effort to get the birds’ stolen eggs back.

May 15 2013

Produced “Sanford and Son,” “The Jeffersons,” and “Good Times”

Television and movie producer Norman Lear will receive a lifetime achievement award May 22 at the Playboy Mansion for his defense of values embodied by the Bill of Rights, the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation announced today.

The awards, begun in 1979 by Christie Hefner, honor people who help protect and enhance First Amendment rights in journalism, government, book publishing and education.

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