Last night the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were handed out here in Hollywood at the Shrine Auditorium and were broadcast LIVE on TBS and TNT for all the world to see (including me, on my JetBlue flight home from NYC). The SAG Awards, which are given out to actors by fellow actors, is the ...

Dreamgirls star Anika Noni Rose and Oscar Nominee Terence Howard starred on the Broadway Broadhurst Theater in a revival of Tennesse Williams play "Cat on A Hot Tin Roof." The historic production directed by Debbie Allen starred an historic all African-American cast with Anika Noni Rose pl...

In between house repairs, travels, and bunches of other stuff I haven’t blogged much. Maggy and I are in Monroe this weekend. I do not have to preach this Sunday at Forsythe, but I wanted to be here to see the young men lead the worship on Youth Sunday. Maggy and I have been to the movies a fe...

Seeing as we could very well have a black president soon, curious patriots are tilling through the earth of our history, trying to divine some clues from the past as to what that could mean for America. We, on the other hand, just Googled "black presidents in movies." The Onion recently ran one of t...

What the hell happened to Martin Lawrence? Wasn’t he one of the top comedians of his time? Didn’t he have a spectacularly popular television show? I knew this guy was going downhill when Bad Boys II was released and although his name was first on the poster (probably a contractual item from when...

     Film critic Roger Ebert received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame June 23. Congrats and yay! Someone truly more deserving than Seacrest. Annette Bening, Steve Martin, Ray Romano and Charlize Theron are among the stars who will receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006.    Â...