Apr 24 2009

Jeff Henderson

When you were a kid, you had some dreams about what you wanted to do when you grew up. You just didn’t know how much effort it would take.

When you started out, you absorbed by watching and doing. Maybe you went to trade school or college, or you were taught by the School of Hard Knocks. Perhaps you blazed trails and schooled yourself. Any way it happened, it took a lot of learning to reach your station in life.
And it took a lot of work.

Gail Choice  |   OW Contributor
Apr 24 2009

Standing United

The National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications recently held its NAMIC-Southern California West Coast Creative Summit, the trade organization’s signature conference series focusing on the content development aspects of the television industry, in Beverly Hills.

Executives from across the nation and California were on hand to impart valuable information, compare notes, and focus attention on a more promising future for ethnic Americans in front of and particularly behind the camera.

Apr 23 2009

by Carla A. Harris

 Around the country, some 6 million people are out of a job. You’re not one of them.

You have a workplace to report to and you aim to keep it that way. Despite the economy, you’ve set hopeful goals this year and you anticipate success. But even though you’ve done this job for years, you seem to have hit a wall.

Gail Choice  |   OW Contributor
Apr 23 2009

When art and passion meet

Hollywood, CA -- “The Soloist” is superb. Oscar winner Jamie Foxx (“Ray”) and Oscar nominee Robert Downey, Jr. (“Tropic Thunder”) hand in two excellent performances that demonstrate the passion and love the two have for their craft.

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