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Mo'Nique: 'I am a stand-up comedian who won an Oscar'

Best supporting actress winner Mo'Nique, who paid tribute in her onstage acceptance speech to the first black performer to win an Oscar, said backstage that her attire was also chosen in tribute to Hattie McDaniel. Read more »

'Hurt Locker' wins 6 Oscars, including best picture; Bigelow snags best director

The Academy Awards went according to expectations Sunday night, as the Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker'' was named best picture and Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock took home the top acting awards. Read more »

Q&A: 'Brooklyn's Finest' director Antoine Fuqua

"There were days when I would get a certain actor for six hours and then have to switch gears and go get another actor for the remainder of the day. So I have to after lunch shift into Ethan Hawke mode. During breakfast I was in Richard Gere mode or Don Cheadle mode." Read more »

Reshuffled

With a mixture of anticipation and hope, the Black film community has been abuzz for weeks over the prospect of producer-director Lee Daniels pulling off a historic upset Sunday at the Academy Awards,... Read more »

Movie Review: 'Blood Done Sign My Name'

Director Jeb Stuart’s “Blood Done Sign My Name” takes a frequently painstaking walk down America’s racial memory lane. It revolves around a fact-based account of the murder of Henry “Dickie” Marrow, a... Read more »

Sean Penn charged with two misdemeanors for run-in with photographer

Actor-director Sean Penn was charged Friday with misdemeanor battery and vandalism counts stemming from a run-in last October with a photographer outside the Brentwood Country Mart. Read more »

Oscar nominees do lunch

As more than 120 nominees for Hollywood's most- coveted prize gathered at the Beverly Hilton on Monday, even the first-time potential Oscar winners seemed to be at ease and enjoying the ride. Read more »

Q&A: Letoya Luckett

Although she split from the group 10 years ago — and it has since been disbanded altogether — LeToya Luckett is probably still best known as one of the original members of Destiny’s... Read more »

'Avatar,' 'Hurt Locker' lead in Oscar nominations

For the first time in 64 years, 10 films -- including top-drawer contenders "Avatar'' and "The Hurt Locker'' -- received best picture nods Tuesday when nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced. Read more »

Taking a gamble

“We all have addictions. … Some people love ice cream, some people love chocolate, some people love gambling, some people love heroin, some people love shopping. But, to some degree, we are all doing what... Read more »

Apocalypse wowed

“The Cosby Show” may have popularized the comic parental threat “I brought you into this world, and I’ll take you out,” but “Legion” takes a more literal, spiritually-minded approach to the saying. In... Read more »

Her share of the kingdom

In the blessed way that is often part of the mercurial and unforgiving acting profession, life seems to have imitated art for rising star Linara Washington — thanks to a leading film role that mirrors... Read more »

'Avatar' passes $1 billion at box office

"Avatar'' on Sunday passed the $1 billion mark in worldwide revenues, and is again the weekend box office champ with $68.3 million in projected sales.    The movie has grossed $352.1 million in the... Read more »

Actress Brittany Murphy dead at 32

Brittany Murphy, the bubbly, free-spirited actress who appeared in such films as "Clueless" and "8 Mile," has died, Los Angeles police and hospital officials said Sunday. She was 32. Read more »

Tyler Perry announces his mother's death

Tyler Perry's mother -- who he has said helped inspire his popular Madea character -- died Tuesday, the film maker announced on his Web site. Read more »

Tackling an icon

“Invictus” (from the Latin word for unconquered), contains two fact-based stories from modern history: how South Africa, led by its first Black president, Nelson Mandela, united behind its national rugby... Read more »

Disney’s colorful princess

CULVER CITY — Even before Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog,” featuring it’s first African-American animated princess, hits nationwide movie theaters Dec. 11 it is already proving to be a fairy tale... Read more »

L.A. Times: African-American actors disappear from 'Couples Retreat' poster

"It's perfectly normal for a Hollywood studio to revamp its marketing campaign when a film is released overseas. Every culture is a wee bit different, so marketing tweaks happen... Read more »

Movie Review: 'Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon'

In the time it takes to finish typing this sentence, at least one child in America will have dropped out of school. Every nine seconds. It’s a compelling statistic and also the informative tagline for... Read more »

L.A. Weekly: The Sapphire interview

Taboo buster or tool of the oppressor? The acclaimed poet and novelist keeps on pushing. Read more »

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