#Regi Davis

[girl4music]

‘She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’ is honestly quite groundbreaking in it’s representation. It gets LGBTQ+ representation so right. I’m watching an episode about Bow and his same-sex parents. He has 2 dads. And it’s just completely normalized that they’re together. He isn’t ashamed at all. Sure Bow is embarrassed by them but not because they’re same-sex couple. But because they don’t really understand who he is and he feels he has to lie to them so that he doesn’t disappoint them.

Like they’re just put in there. Part of the story of the episode. That’s it. That’s how it should always be done. There’s no need to make a spectacle out of it and at the same time there’s no reason to hide it away. Just treat it normally because it is normal just as anything else is.

Imagine just turning this on as a Saturday morning cartoon for your kid and they see that. They’re not going to think anything of it because they don’t need to. And that’s the way it should be all the fucking time!

Again - well done to the creative team behind the show.

I feel like animation is doing a much better job with this because animation is just putting them in there and letting them be part of the story and that’s job done.

There’s just so many live-action shows and movies that just don’t get this and try to do special treatment for it and it always fails because they’re just stigmatizing it.

Literally all you need to do is just put a gay or queer person in the story and then focus on the storytelling.

Don’t do coming out episodes.

Don’t do “special” episodes.

Don’t act like there’s a difference because there isn’t.

[canonqueercharacters]

The canon queer character of the day is:

Lance from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, who is gay.

[packet-of-staples]

So I found some Rawfury videos of Yuri Lowenthal, Krizia Bajos and Cissy Jones talking about their characters and talking about the game before it was released (I was looking for clips for OC voice claims) and there was something in Cissy's Vivian video that kinda stuck out to me.

So what she says about Vivian exactly is: "Arcadia to her is- its not only where she's built her career, its where she's building her legacy, and uh, for her this is something really important. She wants to leave something of value, something that's worth a lot to people-"

Now, from a non spoiler point of view this is like, oh yeah rich Ceo lady wants to leave a mark on the world. Ceos are always talking about legacy, wanting to leave something behind, be something great yadda yadda. Added bonus if you know that she's supposed to be Elijah's '''Granddaughter''', she wants to continue her family's legacy all checks out.

But, knowing who she really is, not Elijah's granddaughter but one of the Arcadia 6, makes this sentence a lot more interesting. You could see this as her wanting to remake her legacy, because she technically already had one. Emily Garland is one of the 6 Arcadian born citizens to escape the dome, that's something pretty cool to be known for. But she threw that away, she sold out and chose to support the very company that oppressed her and many others like her. So now she has to make something more of herself to justify that choice. If she can make Arcadia greater, bring it out of its current slump like Howard Ashman did for Disney, then she's no longer the escapee who sold out because she was too weak to handle the outside world, she's the amazing woman who made American Arcadia popular again!

Cissy goes on to say: "-and so she works really really hard to make this thing, um, the best it can be with the most interesting people-" (She also goes on to call Trevor 'a bit of an L 7' or a square and I think that's really funny, like yeah, yeah he wouldn't be there, he would be square)

She does work really hard to leave something that, in her eyes, is positive to her image. She's reinventing herself to make her crawling back to the company worth it. To prove to herself that it wasn't a mistake and to leave a legacy that, hopefully, most people will look fondly on instead of in contempt or betrayal. She wants to leave something of value, because I can imagine there is a part of her that doesn't hold any value in herself, not after failing to make a difference that actually mattered and becoming part of the problem.

And I dunno I feel like that adds just an extra layer to her which is pretty cool. I could also be reading way too much into this idk.

Anyway, the other two videos are very cool too. Yuri talks about how Trevor's life isn't boring like Walton thinks it is, its just 'Exciting in the wrong way'. He also talks about how he thinks lots of people will relate to Trevor (So true) and how just because your life may be simple, it doesn't mean its boring and not worth living which I think is very sweet. Thank you Yuri. Krizia talks about how she really related to Angela because she grew up on Puerto Rico and how she got to add a couple of 'spicy words' as she put it, in her dialogue for a bit of extra authenticity. She also talked about how Walton was the job Angela always wanted, but after 'peaking behind the curtain' she realised that it wasn't the dream she thought is was, it's both kinda heart breaking but also very relatable, especially I'm sure to those in the entertainment industry. It makes me really want to know what her 'peak behind the curtain' moment was and what the steps where to get her to this point in more detail (Hey hey, Out of the Blue, hey please. please make that prologue thing you said was a good idea of mine on twitter. Hey, please? Please? It has the Regi Davis stamp of approval, please?)

The videos are very cool I'll put them under the cut if you're interested. I just wanted to have a ramble cause I haven't in a while and I've just been thinking about this.

[txttletale]

niceys positive anon!! i don't agree with you on everything but you are so clearly like well read and well rounded that you've helped me think through a lot of my own inconsistencies and hypocrises in my own political and social thought, even if i do have slightly different conclusions at times then u (mainly because i believe there's more of a place for idealism and 'mind politics' than u do). anyway this is a preamble to ask if you have recommended reading in the past and if not if you had any recommended reading? there's some obvious like Read Marx but beyond that im always a little lost wading through theory and given you seem well read and i always admire your takes, i wondered about your recs

it's been a while since i've done a big reading list post so--bearing in mind that my specific areas of 'expertise' (i say that in huge quotation marks obvsies i'm just a girlblogger) are imperialism and media studies, here are some books and essays/pamphlets i recommend. the bolded ones are ones that i consider foundational to my politics

BASICS OF MARXISM

friedrich engels, principles of commmunism

friedrich engels, socialism: utopian & scientific

karl marx, the german ideology

karl marx, wage labour & capital

mao zedong, on contradiction

nikolai bukharin, anarchy and scientific communism

rosa luxemburg, reform or revolution?

v.i lenin, left-wing communism: an infantile disorder

v.i. lenin, the state & revolution

v.i. lenin, what is to be done?

IMPERIALISM

aijaz ahmed, iraq, afghanistan, and the imperialism of our time

albert memmi, the colonizer and the colonized

che guevara, on socialism and internationalism (ed. aijaz ahmad)

eduardo galeano, the open veins of latin america

edward said, orientalism

fernando cardoso, dependency and development in latin america

frantz fanon, black skin, white masks

frantz fanon, the wretched of the earth

greg grandin, empire's workshop

kwame nkrumah, neocolonialism, the last stage of imperialism

michael parenti, against empire

naomi klein, the shock doctrine

ruy mauro marini, the dialectics of dependency

v.i. lenin, imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism

vijay prashad, red star over the third world

vincent bevins, the jakarta method

walter rodney, how europe underdeveloped africa

william blum, killing hope

zak cope, divided world divided class

zak cope, the wealth of (some) nations

MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES

antonio gramsci, the prison notebooks

ed. mick gidley, representing others: white views of indigenous peoples

ed. stuart hall, representation: cultural representations and signifying pratices

gilles deleuze & felix guattari, capitalism & schizophrenia

jacques derrida, margins of philosophy

jacques derrida, speech and phenomena

michael parenti, inventing reality

michel foucault, disicipline and punish

michel foucault, the archeology of knowledge

natasha schull, addiction by design

nick snricek, platform capitalism

noam chomsky and edward herman, manufacturing consent

regis tove stella, imagining the other

richard sennett and jonathan cobb, the hidden injuries of class

safiya umoja noble, algoriths of oppression

stuart hall, cultural studies 1983: a theoretical history

theodor adorno and max horkheimer, the culture industry

walter benjamin, the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction

OTHER

angela davis, women, race, and class

anna louise strong, cash and violence in laos and vietnam

anna louise strong, the soviets expected it

anna louise strong, when serfs stood up in tibet

carrie hamilton, sexual revolutions in cuba

chris chitty, sexual hegemony

christian fuchs, theorizing and analysing digital labor

eds. jules joanne gleeson and elle o'rourke, transgender marxism

elaine scarry, the body in pain

jules joanne gleeson, this infamous proposal

michael parenti, blackshirts & reds

paulo freire, pedagogy of the oppressed

peter drucker, warped: gay normality and queer anticapitalism

rosemary hennessy, profit and pleasure

sophie lewis, abolish the family

suzy kim, everyday life in the north korean revolution

walter rodney, the russian revolution: a view from the third world

[i-am-the-oyster]

Ok I’m asking this question in the most polite way I can. I’m very very new to the fandom and just the Beatles in general and I just have to know the pure truth on John and Cynthia. Any time John is ever posted on anywhere, like TikTok, insta, ect, people are always flooding the comments saying John beat his wife and kid. Why is that such a popular belief when that didn’t happen? I know he slapped her once or something but people are alway saying it and I just want to know why if it’s not true. Again I’m asking this in the most respectful manner I can. Thank you !

Hello nonny!

I can tell this is an important and emotive question for you, and I hope I can respond in a way that is helpful to you without avoiding the truth.

I don't like the way that John's violence is often discussed---people do like to make complicated things out to be simple---but we can't avoid the fact that John was a violent man. He said it himself [1], Cynthia said it [2], May said it [3], Yoko sat next to him while he said it and she didn't deny it [4].

In her 2005 book, Cynthia claimed he only ever hit her once [5], but four decades earlier she told Hunter Davies a different story [6]. The way I interpret this inconsistency is some combination of personal revisionism (as we all do when we look back on our lives) and choosing a particular version of John to publicly remember after his death.

So what are we to do with this knowledge? This may be controversial of me, but I don't believe in dividing the world into Abusers [irredeemable] and Non-abusers [decent].

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

John was violent, yes, but he also recognised that about himself and worked on changing. None of the Beatles were (or are) pure, and as fans we each need to decide for ourselves how much we engage with that reality, and how it affects our relationships with them and their work.

It's also worth noting that John was a notorious revisionist himself, and that whatever he said later, he really did love Cyn.

[1] "I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically — any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn’t express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women." --- John discussing the song Getting Better in an interview with Playboy 1980

[2] "Molly, the cleaning woman, once caught John hitting me, really clouting me. She said I was a silly girl, to get mixed up with someone like that." --- Cynthia to Hunter Davies in the official biography (chapter 7)

[3] "He was drunk and looked very confused. Slowly he reached out, put his hands to my throat, and began to strangle me. As his hands closed tighter I screamed out and I tried to pull away, but he was incredibly strong." --- May Pang in her book Loving John (chapter 14)

[4] https://amoralto.tumblr.com/post/46083471661/september-5th-1971-st-regis-hotel-new-york-in#notes

[5] "The next day at college he followed me to the girls' loos (toilets) in the basement. When I came out he was waiting with a dark look on his face. Before I could speak he raised his arm and hit me across the face, knocking my head into the pipes that ran down the wall behind me,". She goes on to claim that John promised never to hit her again and he kept that promise.

[6] See note 2 above. These don't sound to me like they could be the same incident.

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Hulk

Rating: PG-13

Director: Ang Lee

Cast: Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas, Nick Nolte, Paul Kersey, Cara Buono, Kevin Rankin, Todd Tesen, Celia Weston, Mike Erwin, Lou Ferrigno, Stan Lee, Regi Davis, Craig Damon, Geoffrey Scott, Regina McKee Redwing, Daniel Dae Kim

Release year: 2003

Genres: science fiction, action

Blurb: Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.

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She-Ra: The Holiday Special

Songs (solos, duets, trios, quartets, quintets, ensembles, etc.) performed by:

Aimee Carrero

A.J. Michalka

Karen Fukuhara

Marcus Scribner

Génesis Rodríguez

Vella Lovell

Christine Woods

Merit Leighton

Jordan Fisher

Lauren Ash

Adam Ray

Keston John

Daniel Dae Kim

Krystal Joy Brown

N.D. Stevenson

Sandra Oh

Dana Davis

Antony Del Rio

Matthew Yang King

…and Mochi McIntyre

Aimee Carrero • A.J. Michalka • Karen Fukuhara • Marcus Scribner • Génesis Rodríguez • Vella Lovell • Christine Woods • Merit Leighton • Jordan Fisher • Lauren Ash • Adam Ray • Keston John • Daniel Dae Kim • Krystal Joy Brown • N.D. Stevenson • Sandra Oh • Dana Davis • Antony Del Rio • Matthew Yang King

Cast

George: CHRIS JAI ALEX

Scorpia: LAUREN ASH

Netossa: KRYSTAL JOY BROWN

Adora/She-Ra: AIMEE CARRERO

Lonnie & Busgirl: DANA DAVIS

Huntara: GEENA DAVIS

Lance: REGI DAVIS

Kyle: ANTONY DEL RIO

Madame Razz, General Juliet, & Baker: GREY DeLISLE

Young Catra: JULIET DONENFELD

Mara: ZEHRA FAZAL

Sea Hawk & Soda Pop: JORDAN FISHER

Glimmer: KAREN FUKUHARA

Light Hope: MORLA GORRONDONA

Wrong Hordak & Horde Prime: KESTON JOHN

Micah: DANIEL DAE KIM

Rogelio & Imp: MATTHEW YANG KING

Melissa: MARISSA LENTI

Frosta: MERIT LEIGHTON

Mermista: VELLA LOVELL

Melog: MOCHI McINTYRE

Catra: A.J. MICKALKA

Young Adora: LALA NESTOR

Castaspella: SANDRA OH

Swift Wind: ADAM RAY

Perfuma: GÉNESIS RODRÍGUEZ

Bow: MARCUS SCRIBNER

Angella: RESHMA SHETTY

Spinnerella: N.D. STEVENSON

Double Trouble: JACOB TOBIA

Shadow Weaver: LORRAINE TOUSSAINT

Entrapta: CHRISTINE WOODS

Versión al Español Latino Americano

Adora/She-Ra: JOCELYN ROBLES

Catra: JESSICA ÁNGELES

Glimmer: ALONDRA HIDALGO

Bow: ARTURO CASTAÑEDA

Perfuma: ANALIZ SÁNCHEZ

Mermista: KAREN VALLEJO

Entrapta: LEYLA RANGEL

Frosta: ANGÉLICA VILLA

Sea Hawk: IDZI DUTKIEWICZ

Scorpia: BETZABÉ JARA

Swift Wind: RAÚL ANAYA

Hordak Copia: HUMBERTO SOLÓRZANO

Micah: MARIO CASTAÑEDA

Netossa: FERNANDA ROBLES

Spinnerella: GABY CÁRDENAS

Castaspella: IRINA ÍNDIGO

Lonnie: DANANN HUICOCHEA

Kyle: MIGUEL ÁNGEL RUIZ

Doppler Morfer: JAVIER OLGUÍN

Madame Razz: ÁNGELA VILLANUEVA

Generala Juliet: MIREYA MENDOZA

Huntara: LAURA TORRES

Lance: RENÉ GARCÍA

George: EDUARDO TEJEDO

Angella: ROMMY MENDOZA

Melissa: CARLA CASTAÑEDA

Joven Adora: ESTEFANÍA PIEDRA

Joven Catra: PAMELA MENDOZA

Soda Pop: BRUNO CORONEL

Cocinera: FERNANDA ROBLES

Busgirl: MONSERRAT MENDOZA

Light Hope: ROSALBA SOTELO

Mara: DULCE GUERRERO

Shadow Weaver: YOLANDA VIDAL

Hordiano Primero: HUMBERTO SOLÓRZANO

[faeriegodpwn]

Fantasy Cast Legend of Drizzt

Jarlaxle Bregan D'Aerthe

Idris Elba or

Djimon Hounsou

Artemis Entreri

Sendhil Ramamurthy

Drizzt

Ncuti Gatwa

Catti

Karen Gillian

Wulfgar

Whichever WWE star gets this made

Bruenor

Liam Neeson or Warwick Davis.

Regis

Elijah Wood (cop out I know) or Peter Dinklidge or Neil Newborn

Or I dunno ...just don't cast the main Drow as white people in a gallon of body paint while actual poc fill in the background.

This isn

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Wake

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[thecollectors-world]

Eine Abenteuer Komödie mit Kampfsport und Action Ikone Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr., Melody Anderson und John Rhys-Davis (Gimli, Herr der Ringe) in einer Nebenrolle.

Regie führte kein unbekannter, J. Lee Thompson der für seine Filme "Tiger Bay" (1959) und "Kanonen von Navarone" 1961 mehrere Nominierung für diverse Preise einsammelte darunter den Oscar für die beste Regie und Preise gewann für seine frühen Filme wie "Die Frau im Morgenrock" (1957) und "Eiskalt in Alexandrien" (1958)...

Desweiteren drehte er das Abenteuer Epos "Taras Bulba" die 4. und 5. Fortsetzungen der Planet der Affen Saga 1972 und 1973 und die Action Klassiker mit Charles Bronson "Ein Mann wie Dynamit" (1983) , "Der Liquidator"(1984) "Murphys Gesetz" (1986) oder "Death Wish 4 (Das weiße im Auge)"(1987) "Das Gesetz ist der Tod" (1988) und "Kinjite- Tödliches Tabu" (1989)...

Dennoch erhielt der Film verheerende Kritiken so auch zur deutschen Synchronisation...

Ich fand ihn entgegen aller Meinungen immer sehr gut, auch wenn blöde Sprüche geklopft werden und die Story an den Haaren herbei gezogen wirkt stimmt die Chemie der drei Hauptdarsteller und die Action ebenso...

Leider hab ich das limitierte Mediabook des Films verpasst aber meine 20 jahre alte DVD tuts auch noch, obwohl ich mir ein unzensiertes blueray update sehr gut vorstellen könnte 😅

[theanticool]

Olympic gold medalist Andy Cruz has signed with Matchroom. A huge acquisition for Eddie Hearn and team. Cruz is amazing.

Here he is facing off with Keyshawn Davis at the 2019 World championships

Semi-related news: apparently Matchroom is speaking with Subriel Matías as well so the Regis Prograis fight might actually be a possibility @suplex-from-the-heavens

[dove-e-come-vedere-wonka-gratis]

Wonka il Film

✔️ 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐑𝐀 𝐐𝐔𝐈 ▶ https://megavids.online/movie/787699/wonka

:: Trama WONKA ::

Questo film racconta la storia delle origini di Willy Wonka, un personaggio del romanzo Charlie e la fabbrica di cioccolato di Roald Dahl, pubblicato nel 1964. Questo film descrive i primi giorni di Wonka come eccentrico cioccolatiere. Confezionato come "compagno" dell'adattamento cinematografico di Willy Wonka e la fabbrica di cioccolato, questo film ha come protagonista Timothée Chalamet. È supportato da Calah Lane e altri attori famosi come Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carter, Tom Davis, Olivia Colman e Hugh Grant.

Il processo di sviluppo del film è iniziato dopo che la Warner Bros. La Pictures, che aveva precedentemente pubblicato un adattamento del romanzo del 1964 nel 2005, ha acquisito i diritti sul personaggio di Wonka nell'ottobre 2016. Hanno annunciato che il film si sarebbe concentrato sulla storia delle origini di Wonka. Timothée Chalamet è stato confermato per interpretare Wonka nel maggio 2021 e il cast di supporto è stato annunciato nel settembre dello stesso anno. Le riprese principali sono iniziate nel Regno Unito nel settembre 2021. Le location delle riprese includono Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, Watford, così come a Oxford, Lyme Regis, Bath, St Albans e al Rivoli Ballroom di Crofton Park, Londra. Le canzoni originali del film sono state fornite da Neil Hannon, con la musica originale di Joby Talbot.

Wonka è stato presentato in anteprima alla Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Londra, il 28 novembre 2023. Il film è uscito nel Regno Unito l'8 dicembre e negli Stati Uniti il ​​15 dicembre 2023 dalla Warner Bros. Immagini. Il film ha ricevuto recensioni generalmente positive da parte della critica.

Lancio :

Timothée Chalamet nel ruolo di Willy Wonka, un aspirante inventore e cioccolatiere.

Calah Lane nel ruolo di Noodle, l'assistente di Willy

Keegan-Michael Key nel ruolo del capo della polizia

Paterson Joseph nei panni di Arthur Slugworth, un uomo d'affari corrotto e leader del cartello del cioccolato

Matt Lucas nel ruolo di Prodnose

Matthew Baynton nel ruolo di Fickelgruber

Sally Hawkins nel ruolo della madre di Willy Wonka

Rowan Atkinson nel ruolo di Padre Julius, un prete.

Jim Carter nel ruolo di Abacus Crunch,e altri

Wonka ha tenuto proiezioni speciali allo ShowEast il 24 ottobre 2023 e all'auditorium Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads il 19 novembre. Una première speciale a Tokyo si è tenuta il 20 novembre, alla presenza del regista Paul King, dei produttori David Heyman e Alexandra Derbyshire e delle star del cinema Timothée Chalamet e Hugh Grant. Il film è stato presentato in anteprima alla Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, il 28 novembre 2023. Distribuito nelle sale dalla Warner Bros. Immagini nel Regno Unito l'8 dicembre 2023, il film è stato seguito dall'uscita negli Stati Uniti il ​​15 dicembre 2023, nei cinema convenzionali, Dolby Cinema e IMAX.Inizialmente, l'uscita del film era prevista per il 17 marzo 2023.

Il film è un artefatto culturale creato da una specifica cultura, riflettendola e, al tempo stesso, influenzandola. È per questo motivo che il film viene considerato come un'importante forma d'arte, una fonte di intrattenimento popolare ed un potente mezzo per educare (o indottrinare) la popolazione. Il fatto che sia fruibile attraverso la vista rende questa forma d'arte una potente forma di comunicazione universale. Alcuni film sono diventati popolari in tutto il mondo grazie all'uso del doppiaggio o dei sottotitoli per tradurre i dialoghi del film stesso in lingue diverse da quella (o quelle) utilizzata nella sua produzione.

Le singole immagini che formano il film sono chiamate “fotogrammi”. Durante la proiezione delle tradizionali pellicole di celluloide, un otturatore rotante muove la pellicola per posizionare ogni fotogramma nella posizione giusta per essere proiettato. Durante il processo, fra un frammento e l'altro vengono creati degli intervalli scuri, di cui però lo spettatore non nota la loro presenza per via del cosiddetto effetto della persistenza della visione: per un breve periodo di tempo l'immagine permane a livello della retina. La percezione del movimento è dovuta ad un effetto psicologico definito come “fenomeno Phi”.

[aaronized]

So, sharing your fictiona crushes challenge. I was tagged by @savvy-devine666

Rules: list 9 fictional characters you have a crush on

Here we go:

Viserys I Targaryen - House of the Dragon

Retired Hunter Djura - Bloodborne

Havelock Vetinary - Discworld

Abnur Tharn - The Elder Scrolls Online

Belisarius Cawl - Warhammer 40k

Enji Todoroki - My Hero Academia

Erik (aka The Phantom) - The Phantom of the Opera

Davy Jones - Pirates of the Caribbean

Emiel Regis - The Witcher

Tagging: @squadron-of-damned @timesthatneverwere @taergalive

As usual, participation is optional

[lboogie1906]

Tracie Thoms (August 19, 1975) is a television, film, and stage actress and singer. She is known for her roles in Rent, Cold Case, The Devil Wears Prada, Death Proof, and Wonderfalls.

She was born and raised in Baltimore, the daughter of Donald H. Thoms, a VP of Programming at PBS and television director, and wife Mariana Davis. She started studying acting at age ten and attended the Baltimore School for the Arts.

She earned her BFA from Howard University. She attended the Juilliard School’s Drama Division as a member of Group 30 (1997–2001).

She played the part of Sasha in the US version of the television series As If. She was added to the cast of Cold Case, as the homicide detective, Kat Miller. She has made guest appearances on Law & Order and The Shield.

She has appeared in several movies, most notably in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Rent in which she plays Joanne Jefferson, lawyer and lover of Maureen Johnson.

She was featured in Porn ‘n Chicken and Brother to Brother and The Warrior Class. She appeared in The Devil Wears Prada as Lily. She has completed filming on the Descent and will soon begin filming Jimmie. She appeared in Death Proof.

She made her Broadway debut in Drowning Crow. She has appeared in several off-Broadway and regional productions, including Up Against the Wind, The Oedipus Plays, A Raisin in the Sun, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Exonerated, and The Antigone Project. She played Etta, Diana Prince’s assistant, in Wonder Woman Pilot. She had a role in the 2014 version of Annie, playing Annie’s “fake mother”, a character based on Lily St. Regis in the original musical. he appeared in the Broadway revival of Falsettos as Dr. Charlotte. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Shakur Stevenson vs. Edwin De Los Santos Fight Preview

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Shakur Stevenson vs. Edwin De Los Santos Fight Preview

Aged 26, Shakur Stevenson (20-0, 10 KOs) is already a two-weight division champion and one of the major rising stars in boxing, tipped by many for greatness. Stevenson has been unable to lure undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney into the ring thus far but is now on the cusp of winning one of Haney's old titles.

Stevenson will be fighting for the vacant WBC lightweight title against Edwin De Los Santos (16-1, 14 KOs) at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Thursday, November 16, and the fight will air on ESPN and ESPN+ in the US, and Sky Sports in the UK.

Stevenson will be looking to become a three-weight division champion against the Dominican puncher.

Haney will become "champion in recess" while he moves up to super lightweight to face Regis Prograis for the WBC title at 140 lbs on December 9.

A silver medalist in the 2016 Rio Olympics, Stevenson became the WBO featherweight champion at the expense of Joet Gonzalez in October 2019. Two years later, Stevenson dethroned Jamel Herring via 10th-round TKO to become WBO super featherweight champion. In April 2022, Stevenson beat Oscar Valdez via wide unanimous decision for the WBC and Ring Magazine super featherweight titles before he was stripped of his titles after he failed to make weight for his September 2022 defense against Robson Conceicao, another wide unanimous decision victory for Stevenson.

After that, Stevenson made his lightweight debut in his most recent outing, stopping Shuichiro Yoshino in the sixth round. Shakur has aspirations of facing and conquering a division that features Gervonta Davis, Vasiliy Lomachenko, Frank Martin, Isaac Cruz, and William Zepeda, and until very recently, also the likes of Haney and Ryan Garcia.

Stevenson is not looking to overlook De Los Santos while confident in his own abilities as the best and getting the win.

On the Bootleg Kev podcast, Stevenson said: "You don't want to sleep on nobody, and sleeping on that dude would be the wrong move for me to make. This dude is a great boxer-puncher, and you can tell that he's hungry and he's going to come to win, so for sure, I respect him as a fighter, but he's just going against the best."

Stevenson is the most skilled young boxer in the sport. In a lightweight division packed with numerous skilled, talented boxers, Stevenson is the purest of them all. He may not be a lights-out puncher in the mold of Gervonta "Tank" Davis or possess the dazzling, pleasing-on-the-eye footwork, combinations, angles, and movement of Vasiliy Lomachenko, but Stevenson is impenetrable. Comparisons with Floyd Mayweather Jr may be premature, but who else has controlled fights more confidently than Stevenson since Mayweather? With every performance, Stevenson builds a stronger case that he is the best pure boxer since Mayweather reigned supreme.

Stevenson's style is not one you would assume is of interest to the casual fans, yet the manner in which he was mobbed by scores of fans like he was Michael Jordan in the '90s as he left Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena in July after the Errol Spence Jr vs Terence Crawford weigh-in was a sign that Stevenson has real star potential.

The open workout for this fight in Vegas did not attract a particularly big crowd to witness Stevenson, but glimpses of Stevenson's potential star power have been seen.

If Stevenson dominates here en route to victory while looking exciting and really good in the process and even makes a statement against De Los Santos, the world will be at his feet. This will be the case even more so should Stevenson start getting some big-name scalps on his resume and dispatch his rivals. Looking at what Stevenson has shown us in the professional ranks, he undoubtedly has the ability to do so.

De Los Santos turned professional in 2018. His unbeaten run came to a close, and he suffered his sole professional loss in January 2022, with an eight-round split decision loss to William Foster III on his US debut. The Dominican southpaw has since won three consecutive fights, taking two unbeaten records in the process. De Los Santos rendered Luis Acosta unconscious with a left hand early in the second round. He rose from the canvas in the second round against Jose Valenzuela to score two knockdowns and force the referee's stoppage in the third round of their bout. In his most recent outing, De Los Santos scored a unanimous decision win over 10 rounds against Joseph Adorno in July.

De Los Santos is an offensive fighter who is quick, throws sharp combinations, and carries power in his left hand.

The Dominican southpaw is fully aware of the task at hand against Stevenson and is looking to create history.

"This is the most difficult and important challenge of my career. Winning this fight will change my life forever. I know Shakur is a great champion, and I understand I will need my entire arsenal to defeat him. It is a huge challenge, but not impossible," De Los Santos said.

"I am extremely focused on being crowned world champion and giving a world title to the Dominican Republic. A victory over Shakur would go down as one of the greatest in the history of Dominican boxing. That motivates me much more."

Perhaps the biggest threat for Stevenson is the element of unknown that De Los Santos presents. On paper, when you look at Stevenson's recent fights against Jamel Herring, Oscar Valdez, and Robson Conceicao, De Los Santos appears to be a step-down.

Stevenson is seeking his third world title in a third weight class, but in 2023, not every world title fight in boxing means a contest is of world championship quality.

De Los Santos' best win is that third-round stoppage of a then 12-0 Valenzuela when he found himself dropped in round two. De Los Santos' next fight against Adorno was a 10-round decision over a man who had lost his previous fight against Elvis Rodriguez and had won only three of his past seven. De Los Santos has never been in with anyone of Stevenson's caliber as he pursues his first taste of championship Gold.

With 14 stoppages in 16 wins, it is no surprise that the Dominican will be sold as a big puncher. The reality is this should be a routine victory for Stevenson. This is not a landmark fight in the career of Stevenson. Rather, it should act as a springboard to showcase his phenomenal talents in a thrilling display to take a gifted pugilist to that next level of popularity.

Fights like this will do little for Stevenson's legacy, but the manner in which he ends them will live long in the memory and sway those who may still be undecided on investing in the gifted southpaw's rise. Stevenson is smart, and he will surely be aware of this.

De Los Santos may be too one-dimensional for Stevenson, and his aggression may eventually be to his detriment as Stevenson steps on the gas from the middle rounds and starts turning this into a boxing clinic.

For De Los Santos, a win here would be a huge upset and about as difficult a task as one could find in boxing today. There is no outboxing Stevenson, and attempting to be aggressive with Stevenson, as shown in Stevenson's last fight, often spells the beginning of the end, too. Yoshino spent the first two rounds being aggressive and landing the occasional body shots, then Stevenson countered an incoming Yoshino, dropped him, and kick-started a gradual beating.

Whether it be a showcase performance for a potential future pound-for-pound king or a huge upset and a history-making moment for the underdog, it looks like a rare Thursday night of boxing not to be missed.

(Featured Photo: Mikey Williams/Top Rank via Getty Images)

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Wonka is a 2023 musical fantasy film directed by Paul King, who co-wrote the screenplay with Simon Farnaby. It tells the origin story of the titular Willy Wonka, a character in Roald Dahl's 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, featuring his early days as an eccentric chocolatier.

The film stars Timothée Chalamet in the title role, along with newcomer Calah Lane and an ensemble cast including Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carter, Tom Davis, Olivia Colman, and Hugh Grant.

Development began after Warner Bros. Pictures, which previously released its own adaptation of the novel in 2005, acquired the rights to the titular character in October 2016 and revealed the film would serve as an origin story for Wonka. In May 2021, Chalamet was confirmed to be playing Wonka and the supporting cast were announced in September of that year. Principal photography began in the United Kingdom in September 2021. Filming took place in Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden in Watford, as well as Lyme Regis, Bath, St Albans and at the Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park, London. Scenes were shot in Oxford in December and February. The original songs for the film were contributed by Neil Hannon, while its original score was provided by Joby Talbot.

Wonka had a special screening at ShowEast on 24 October 2023, and is scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom on 8 December 2023, and in the United States on 15 December 2023, by Warner Bros. Pictures.