#abc film review magazine

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Horror Films are Fun

(ABC Film Review Magazine, March 1970)

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Motherhood (2009) Movie Review

Motherhood – Movie Rob‘s Movie Review ABC Film Challenge – Female Directors – M “[reading from her 500-word motherhood-themed article for submission to a magazine prize contest] Motherhood is about accepting the limitations of time and energy which stretch beyond you, even though sometimes it feels they can consume you. Search for and hold on to your own true self. If you lose that, what kind…

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#IFTheMovie #ImaginaryMary #ImaginaryFriends #MyThoughts

This IF movie looks okay but this movie reminded me that Imaginary Mary was a thing.

I put the imaginary Mary's beta design that looks close to the kid sketch before the networks changed the character design.

I remember seeing a few episodes when it aired but I kind of want to rewatch it and the IF movie feels like if Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends was a cartoon and live action hybrid movie.

Imaginary Friends are just your first oc's you forgot about unless you drew them.

I hope we get fanart of Mary with Blue one day.

There are already bootleg plushies of Blue the IF main character online already.

What the beta Mary with the newer model looks like and the Twitter.

Imaginary Mary on X: "Thank you for joining us for the season finale and for a great season! #ImaginaryMary https://t.co/NyFxex2aen" / X (twitter.com)

Film Trailer: Imaginary Mary | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

ABC's 'Imaginary Mary' Features Cute, Cuddly Buzzkill (tvworthwatching.com)

There is a mascot costume to promote the show.

I wonder where this costume is now?

Mary | Costumed Characters Wiki | Fandom

And when a kid adopts a imaginary friend it's like a adoptable oc that the past kid either forgot, didn't want, or grew out of.

I wonder if people have seen Grimsburg yet I know the main character's kid has a pretty cool imaginary friend named Mr. Flesh.

Grimsburg is okay but gives me Digman! vibes.

I wonder when Digman! will return since it just cliffhanger ends.

Also this anime movie about Imaginary friends it is pretty good and there is a Eggman like villain in it.

The Imaginary | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube

The Imaginary | Official Trailer #2 | Netflix Anime - YouTube

The Imaginary | Netflix Media Center

The IF movie was a okay movie since this movie is now streaming on Paramount +.

I liked the Imaginary Character's designs and my favorites are in the images.

I wish we knew more about the other imaginary friends that didn't get a lot of screentime.

But If this is a tv show then I would watch it since Foster's Funtime isn't out yet and we need more shows similar in tone.

The main human passing imaginary friend that Ryan Reynolds played gave me Balan Wonderworld vibes and the imaginary friends are the costume creatures.

But that IHOP IF the Movie MagnIFicent French Toast Sandwich and the IHOP IF the Movie Coney Island Pizza Omelette were both tasty for the tie-in foods.

#IHOP Tie In Movie Menu Foods – @bluepoodle7 on Tumblr

#Coney Island Omelette – @bluepoodle7 on Tumblr

What that IF Movie felt like to me vibe wise.

Balan Wonderworld's music sounds suspiciously familiar - YouTube

Images and videos not mine but links are there.

IF (film) - Wikipedia

Digman! (TV Series 2023– ) - IMDb

Mr. Flesh | Grimsburg Wiki | Fandom

'Grimsburg' Sets Special Preview on FOX with Christina Hendricks, Rosie Perez, Patton Oswalt & More on Board | Animation Magazine

ABC Is Getting Ready to Debut Live-Action/CGI Hybrid Series 'Imaginary Mary' (cartoonbrew.com)

TV Review: 'Imaginary Mary,' Starring Jenna Elfman (variety.com)

Cast and characters of IF movie (odeon.co.uk)

Cast and characters of IF movie (odeon.co.uk)

New 'IF' Character Posters Introduce John Krasinski's Imaginary Friends (collider.com)

Cast and characters of IF movie (odeon.co.uk)

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Vintage Magazine - ABC Film Review (Apr1969) (UK)

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Vintage Magazine - ABC Film Review (Feb1966) (UK)

[superghfan]

Everything to Know About 'General Hospital' Star and Daytime Emmy Winner Nicholas Chavez

People Magazine

Meet General Hospital's newest breakout star.

Nicholas Chavez, who plays spoiled rich kid Spencer Cassadine on the ABC soap opera, won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Performer in a Drama Series in June less than a year after joining the General Hospital cast.

"Twelve months before I received that award, I was selling cars down in Florida so it was a paradigm shift of epic proportions," he tells PEOPLE. "It was very, very surreal to stand up on that stage and be recognized for the thing that I'm more passionate about than anything else in life."

He adds, "It was a real dream come true, and I'm incredibly thankful — and still now, months later, in disbelief quite frankly."

Chavez, 23, shares that winning the prize for his first professional acting role was "completely unexpected" but he did prepare a speech just in case.

"Whenever I have to be on stage as myself, I can get a bit nervous so it's helpful for me to have something to fall back on so I'm not just rambling," he shares. "So in that sense, I did prepare something. The only thing I expected was it was going to be a fun night with my coworkers."

He knew he wanted to be an actor in high school — but was hesitant to pursue it

The Colorado native recalls getting the acting bug while playing Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird in high school after another student called out sick.

"I didn't really know what I wanted to do with my life when I was in high school," he tells PEOPLE. "So when the faculty all came and saw the production, I had multiple people pull me aside and say, 'You should consider doing this as a profession,' which sounded really, really crazy to me because that wasn't generally something you did for work in Denver."

He adds that working in the entertainment industry was a "pretty foreign concept" to him at the time.

He was cast on General Hospital 24 hours after his screen test

Chavez recalls the quick audition process for landing the part of spoiled rich kid Spencer Cassadine on the soap opera.

When the actor arrived for the screen test, he looked around the room and saw "pretty stiff competition."

"But, ultimately I just sorta reconciled that ultimately all I can do is be the artist that I am and bring to it what I bring to it," he explains.

He found that he got the part only one day later, telling PEOPLE it "was probably the coolest moment of my life so far." He adds, "I bought a return ticket but they called me 24 hours after the audition and they said, 'Hey, don't fly back home. We need you to film here next Wednesday. Congratulations.'"

He is grateful the support of his General Hospital costars

Chavez took over the part of Spencer from actor Nicolas Bechtel, so fans weren't immediately thrilled with the recasting decision.

"Some of the fans didn't like me at first because I'm a recast. There was an actor who played my character before me," he says. "You know I was a bit green at first. I think people were seeing that. So online, people would be like, 'I like the old actor who played Spencer better.' I've seen him work and he's a great actor. Very, very charismatic."

"Some of the comments were sorta getting to me," he admits. "[My costars] were like, 'Dude, just give it some time, give it some time let them get used to you,' you know, 'Don't think too hard about it.'"

Chavez is grateful to the cast for welcoming him into "the General Hospital family with open arms" and says fans' comments online "are great now. Now, it's like fun to go online. It's like rave reviews every time."

He predicts his character can find a better path

Chavez admits that landing in prison was "a new low for Spencer."

"I think that if I had to make a prediction about what will happen, it will be seeing Spencer pull himself up by sheer force and volition," he shares of his character's future. "Seeing Spencer pull himself up for the lowest point he's ever been in his life to becoming self-realized and exactly who is destined to become even if it doesn't please everyone else in his life.

He has some big career goals

Chavez says General Hospital has been a "a really, really phenomenal training ground."

"You get a lot of experiences doing soaps as an actor, but I would love to stay in TV," he says. "I would love to do film."

He adds that he would like to join the cast of an "HBO-style drama." His dream shows include Euphoria and Succession.

He's an adventurer seeker

One look at Chavez's Instagram and it's clear that he is always for an adventure.

He booked a trip to Istanbul, Athens and Rome four days before he left earlier this month. He also recently went skydiving and surfing.

For his next big adventure, he hopes to visit Vietnam and Thailand.

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[whtthefck93]

“We’re all 100% for sure gonna fucking die.”

Don’t Look Up was a masterpiece. Uses the metaphor of a meteor sure to destroy earth as a method to discuss our inability to combat climate crisis.  “Human narcissism and all that it has wrought, including the destruction of nature, will finally be our downfall.”

And it is just so fucking ironic that the reviews of the movie itself would mirror the criticism lobbied against the media in the film itself. Scenes show over and over again how the public don’t want to hear about the meteor (or climate change) and so the scientists shouldn’t share the information or they shouldn’t be so uptight about it. They have to be pleasant and light about it all.  

Reviews of the movie cite that: “The film is “blunt” (according to David Fear in Rolling Stone), “shrill” (Samuel R. Murrian, Parade Magazine) and “self-conscious and unrelaxed” (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian). Luke Goodsell of ABC News Australia believes the director, Adam McKay, “just doesn't know how to let people enjoy things—even if it is their own destruction.” In these critics’ views, it’s fine to make movies about the climate crisis—just as long as you do so in a way that soothes and placates the viewer. You must under no account employ “bombastic, shake-you-by-the-shoulders direction” (Simran Hans, The Observer).”

WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THE FILM IS CRITIQUING ABOUT THE MEDIA AND IT’S ABILITY TO PROPERLY TRANSMIT THE IMPENDING DOOM OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS. Like the media and reviewers played right into the script laid out for them in the film. 

Shit made me cry.

[justforbooks]

I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning six seasons. The show starred Lucille Ball, her then real-life husband Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. It followed the life of Lucy Ricardo (Ball), a young middle-class housewife in New York City, who either concocted plans with her best friends Ethel and Fred Mertz (Vance and Frawley) to appear alongside her bandleader husband Ricky Ricardo (Arnaz) in his nightclub, or tried numerous schemes to mingle with, or be a part of show business. After the series ended in 1957, a modified version continued for three more seasons with 13 one-hour specials; it ran from 1957 to 1960. It was first known as The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show and later in reruns as The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour.

I Love Lucy became the most-watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons, and it was the first to end its run at the top of the Nielsen ratings (an accomplishment later matched only by The Andy Griffith Show in 1968 and Seinfeld in 1998). As of 2011, episodes of the show have been syndicated in dozens of languages across the world and remain popular with an American audience of 40 million each year. A colorized version of its Christmas episode attracted more than 8 million viewers when CBS aired it in prime time in 2013, 62 years after the show premiered; CBS has aired two to three colorized episodes each year since then, once at Christmas and again in the spring.

The show, which was the first scripted television program to be shot on 35mm film in front of a studio audience, by cinematographer Karl Freund, won five Emmy Awards and received numerous nominations and honors. It was the first show to feature an ensemble cast. It is often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential sitcoms in history. In 2012, it was voted the 'Best TV Show of All Time' in a survey conducted by ABC News and People magazine.

"Lucy Goes to the Hospital" is an episode of the 1950s American television show I Love Lucy in which the title character, Lucy Ricardo, gives birth to her son, "Little Ricky," after a "predictably chaotic" sequence of events. Twelve hours before the broadcast, the actress who played Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, had given birth to Desi Arnaz, Jr. by cesarean section. The episode had actually been filmed on November 14, 1952.

The episode was the culmination of an unprecedented pairing of the fictional pregnancy of Lucy with the real-life pregnancy of Lucille Ball; "real-time pregnancy was fictively narrated for the first time on American television." (This may not entirely be true, since Mary Kay and Johnny is also reputed to have written the pregnancy of its star Mary Kay Stearns into the script; that more obscure series has since been mostly destroyed, making it difficult to verify.)

When the episode premiered on January 19, 1953, 73.9% of all American homes with television sets tuned in, amounting to 44 million viewers watching the episode, a record until September 9, 1956, when Elvis Presley appeared for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show, at CBS, which drew a share of 82.6%, a figure unrivaled since. It received higher ratings than the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, which received 29 million viewers, the day afterward. According to the Indian newspaper The Telegraph, scripts for the episode were reviewed by a rabbi, a minister, and a priest in order to make sure it would not be offensive.

The cover story of Newsweek on January 19, 1953 was about the episode (which had not yet been aired when the issue went to press). The first issue of TV Guide, dated April 3, 1953, featured a cover photo of newborn Desi Arnaz, Jr., captioned as "Lucy's $50,000,000 Baby".

Numerous stories were published about the sex of the baby, which was kept secret until the episode aired; when Ball actually had a boy as Lucy did in the script, headlines proclaimed "Lucy sticks to script: a boy it is!" (New York Daily Mirror), "TV was right: a boy for Lucille" (New York Daily News), and "What the Script Ordered" (Life magazine).

* Photo Above: Mike (left) and Joe Mayer both played Little Ricky as a toddler.

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at http://justforbooks.tumblr.com

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From the ABC Film Review magazine, 1966.

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Linda Hayden, ABC Film Review Magazine, March 1970.

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Books I read in 2020.

I was once platonically attracted to a friend. Not only did he tell me the name of the person he liked (not me, of course), but also the reasons why. I could’ve mentioned two or three, but one reason sank me in was, “Because she likes to learn.” He didn’t say that to offend me since that night was one of those meetings in which he is the spotlight of our conversations, yet I couldn’t help but feel offended. I thought, “That certainly can’t be me. I don’t like to learn.” I never did, actually.

It was a wake up call that, all this time, I had been stuck in the peak of Mountain Stupid, one of the stages of Dunning-Kruger effect—a phase where you were filled with nothing but arrogance and overconfidence, before the realization “you didn’t know anything at all” hit you like a bucket of cold water.

Well I didn’t change myself after that, though. But in my defense, I decided to read 70-something books in the third year of my student press organization’s membership (which I later failed) long before I had had the conversation with him. I had had my own reason at first, but whatever it was, it was slowly but surely shifted with an ultimate goal created due to that very night, “I want to like to learn.”

Long story short, I was able to read 33 books in 2020.

It’s nowhere near an achievement to be proud of, so I cancelled my plan to write about it and upload it on a platform where I could gain a higher chance he would read it. I know, I know, I shouldn’t seek validation from another person besides myself—after all 33 books were quite impressive for someone like me who don’t really like books, so I shouldn’t be embarrassed about it nor should I be disappointed with the fact that the plan must be cancelled as I was miserably failing, but, welp, so. Okay. In this post, I would like to tell you the books I read in 2020, sort by chronological order.

Yeah, I uploaded it on my personal blog instead, what a dramatic turn of events.

Manifesto Flora was the first book I read, finished it on 2 January 2020. I believe I started to read it on the last couple days of 2019, so it was kinda cheating. It’s a compilation of short stories. All of them were amazing but there was a short story that I really enjoyed titled “Bekas Teman Baikku”. The author had written a short story for a yearly student magazine organized by a student press organization I later joined.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez was an amazing novel it earned 5 stars on my Goodreads account. My teacher had been telling us about it as he taught magical realism in Creative Writing class. I finished it in three days—I remember those days where I didn’t do anything besides reading; I woke up in the morning and started to read. That was the only thing I did all day. It almost felt like reading was my hobby. (Spoiler alert: It’s not.)

Hidup di Luar Tempurung was the third book I read. I wasn’t in the best mood to read at that time, but I pushed myself, ended up finishing it but also regretting it since I knew that this book deserved to be treated well. After that I read Bagaimana Tuhan Menciptakan Cahaya by Raka Ibrahim and O: Tentang Seekor Monyet yang Ingin Menikah dengan Kaisar Dangdut by Eka Kurniawan, ended up disliking both by simply because I didn’t enjoy them, I gave them 2 stars. 

Then, well. Global pandemic left me shell-shocked as everyone else, really.

One month nearly passed but thankfully I managed to finish the first e-book titled Filosofi Teras by the end of March. I liked the book at first, even for a short period of time I felt like I could rely on the book as I was trying to cope with anxiety, but turned out it’s a false hope since I simply couldn’t become that rational LOL. But topics about stoicism still got my attention though—perhaps it’d remain as something I could admire. Pulang by Leila S. Chudori was a really good book, another one with 5 stars. Later I learned that having 1965-ish as a setting for novels is mainstream, but since I hadn’t known that, it left me in awe.

Then I got tired.

I wasn’t in the mood to read any books, so I turned into Japanese books—my admittedly guilty pleasure. I read Naruto Secret Chronicles: Shikamaru’s Story: A Cloud Drifting in Silent Darkness, a light novel from Naruto based on Shikamaru’s perspective. Although I wouldn’t mention it as one of the books I read in 2020, it was surprisingly a good book. It taught me about Naruto’s universe beyond what I knew, such as politics and government involved. It helped set the mood, so I continued with Ichigo Doumei, another Japanese novel. It was a book mentioned in Your Lie in April, one of my anime recommendations. It’s a good, simple wholesome story that taught us to treasure the life we had. I disliked the female lead character, though—I still do.

I read Kubah by Ahmad Tohari, a novel my teacher once mentioned, which I dislike, and much hate later on, since it gave people wrong assumptions about PKI and what’s surrounding the 1965 tragedy. After that I fell into Kagerou Daze fandom where I spent a lot amount of time consuming the songs, manga, anime, and also light novels—making me successfully adding Kagerou Daze Vol. 3: The Children Reason, Kagerou Daze Vol. 4: The Missing Children, and Kagerou Daze Vol. 5: The Deceiving to my Goodreads’ bookshelf. The latter was my favourite among them. As I hyped with Japanese authors, I thought it was best to finish Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a Japanese novel I found from a post about, well, Japanese novel recommendations. It’s a fun experience; an enjoyable story with a heart-warming ending.

Four Japanese novels in a row brought me to cursed loop as I realized I had not “learned” enough. Whereas I did learn something with each Japanese novel I read, it wasn’t “learning” that I’d planned in the first place. 

August was a month where I thought, “Eh, maybe I like books,” because I read 8 books in one month. I read Setan van Oyot by Djokolelono, a book published by Marjin Kiri. The novel was well-constructed from the start to the middle part, but unfortunately NOT until the end. Another note: it didn’t bother giving us the translation of both the local and foreign languages used in the story, which is good! I also had the energy to consume Of Mice and Men, a classic book mentioned in Pulang. 

I had spent days in library and bookstore when I finished Hidup Begitu Indah dan Hanya Itu yang Kita Punya—it made me aspire to achieve the ability to write articles like Dea Anugerah, the author. I also read Ketakberhinggaan di Telapak Tangannya by Gioconda Belli which easily became one of my favourite books of the year.

I read The Heart is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, another book with a writing style I would aspire to achieve. It’s a good social-realism novel covering racism towards black people, the life of a curious little girl, a perspective from a blind-deaf man, and the socialist guy—everything was set around the 1930s, written by a brilliant 23-year-old woman. It has some translation issues, unfortunately. Then I continued with Kekerasan Budaya Pasca 1965: Bagaimana Orde Baru Melegitimasi Anti-Komunisme Melalui Sastra dan Film. I’ve been wanting to be able to convey my thoughts in a well-constructed thesis like what the book did.

Tango & Sadimin by Ramayda Akmal was the next, and it was enjoyable even though not satisfying—at least it helped me discover my tendency towards social-realism novels. Then I read Xenoglosofilia: Kenapa Harus Nginggris? by Ivan Lanin—it didn’t help me that much despite its educational contents, but perhaps I just didn’t find what I was looking for.

September was a shameful month as I didn’t read any books AT ALL. I planned to read at least one book per month, that’s why I set 12 books in my Goodreads. My goal wasn’t to read books, but to like them, so what I set up was simply the habit. Looking back at what I did—finishing One Hundred Years of Solitude—I could read book all day if I want to. But I want to become someone who, even if for a few pages, read books every day. And I considered myself failing when September passed without any finished books added to the list.

November came and I read El hablador by Mario Vargas Llosa, a book I had been desperately looking for that my friend finally lent to me. I gave them 5 stars because it greatly helped me in understanding indigenous people and how important it is to support their rights.

Then I desperately turned back to another Japanese novel, this time The Kudravka Sequence by Honobu Yonezawa. It successfully made me fall in love with one specific character because I feel represented, then I looked up Wikia and the synopsis of the next novels, and ended up disappointed LOL. I got tired again and read Sebuah Pertanyaan untuk Cinta by Seno Gumira Ajidarma, a book which I couldn’t believe had written by the Seno Gumira Ajidarma LOL(2). Then in order to set up the mood, I bought my friend’s self-published short stories, Dongeng Sebelum Tidur: Kumpulan Cerita Pendek. It was the first time I added a book to Goodreads. I told her that I uploaded a review and gave her 5 stars. She was really happy and I too was happy because of it.

December approached as well as final exams. So many papers with short deadlines, and despite that, I read books instead on working with my papers—procrastinator as its finest, you see. I read two Agatha Christie’s books, The ABC Murders and Five Little Pigs, two novels I had really wanted to read in years. After exams passed, I somehow gained my energy back. I read Kisah Seekor Camar dan Kucing yang Mengajarinya Terbang by Luis Sepulveda, an enjoyable novella reminding us to take care of animals and protecting the environment from pollution. I wrapped up 2020 with two classic books, No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai and Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell.

 Yup, that’s it!

Now that I’ve just tracked back all the books I read, I realize that my reading experience has its ups and downs. I ain’t good at keeping my mood stable to do the same activities  for a long period of time, and I earned the energy back by—apparently—switching into Japanese novels or light-themed books.

Long story cut short, I failed to read 70-something books. But I also recovered from the heartbreak I guess (LOL), and that’s good news! (Although maybe I forced myself to move on, since the goal was the indicator whether I’m worth it or not, and I failed.) (I shouldn’t have done that to myself, but I had no chance at all in the first place, though. That’s why if I could move on by setting an impossible goal, failed in the process, and helplessly gave up, so be it!)

Thank you for reading.

(And thanks to Anggy who beta read the post! <3)

[noramoya]

#1 F.A.Q.:

“Given how much has been done in the first decade following Michael’s tragic and untimely passing, it should not be a surprise that there is a natural slowing and spreading out of major releases as the Estate focuses more selectively on projects to enhance Michael’s legacy long term. While we appreciate that the fans want more releases, it is important to keep in mind all that has been created and released in this relatively short time. This includes a number of licensing deals such as the limited-edition collaborations with clothing companies like Supreme and Off White, the launch of the Michael Jackson slot machines, as well as all of the larger scale releases including:

2009: The documentary film This Is It, which remains the highest grossing music documentary/concert film in history. Also released was a compilation album with the same title that includes the songs featured in the film and a few bonus tracks including Michael’s unreleased track, “This Is It”. The album has sold in excess of five million copies worldwide making it the largest posthumous release in history.

2010: The Ubisoft game, Michael Jackson: The Experience. While there were many successful versions of the Ubisoft Just Dance videogame, this was the first (and only) time they released a dance video game dedicated entirely to a single artist! It was released on every major platform and went on to become one of the biggest selling video games on the Wii platform. There were also two releases under the Estate’s agreement with Sony Music – Michael, which was the first release of previously unfinished tracks that were worked on by various producers who had worked with Michael. Notwithstanding the controversy about three of the tracks on that album, it went to #1 around the world and sold more than five million copies. Visions, the complete collection of all of Michael’s short films, was also released.

2011: There have been two completely unique live stage shows created by the Estate in partnership with Cirque du Soleil. The first of these shows, Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour, travelled to arenas around the world for nearly 3 years. Along the way it grossed approximately $400 million at the box office making it one of the biggest tours of all time! And it won the Billboard Magazine Creative Content Award. There was also another release under the partnership with Sony Music – an album, Immortal, featuring remixes of Michael’s recordings created by Kevin Antunes, the musical director for both Cirque du Soleil shows, based on the songs used in the IMMORTAL show.

2012: There was a special Bad album re-release to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Bad album which included remastered versions of the tracks from the original album on one disc together with a second disc that included rarities as well as 6 previously unreleased demos by Michael from the recording sessions for the Bad album. It is worth noting that none of these demos would have been released as ‘new’ recordings, however they worked in the context of ‘bonus’ material for this anniversary release. Also included in the larger box set was a Live at Wembley CD – the first ever Michael Jackson live CD from any of Michael’s solo tours to be released. •Also, as part of the Bad 25th anniversary celebration, the Wembley concert from the Bad Tour was released on DVD. Michael’s performance at this concert is certainly the best live concert performance by any artist ever. As explained at the time, had we been able to locate any original source films/tapes for this performance we would have used those to create a fully edited concert. Unfortunately, that was not the case and we released the only thing we found – Michael’s own viewing copy of the concert. We continue to search for the original elements in the hopes that one day we will be able to share this concert in the best possible format. Just like the fans, we would be ecstatic if this happens. •There was the first of two long-form documentaries produced by the Estate with director Spike Lee at the helm, BAD25, which was premiered at the Venice Film Festival and broadcast on ABC in the United States and broadcast on television throughout the rest of the world. The longer “director’s cut” of the documentary was also released on DVD/Blu-Ray. •There was also a deal with Pepsi to promote the 25th anniversary of Bad and the Bad World Tour, for which Pepsi was the sponsor. As part of the deal with Pepsi, special limited-edition cans were released around the world.

2013: The second live show created by the Estate and Cirque du Soleil, Michael Jackson ONE, which is a more intimate show than the touring show, premiered at its permanent home at Mandalay Bay Resort & Hotel in Las Vegas. While we are aware that it is not possible for everyone to travel to Las Vegas to see this show, we are proud to say it continues to be one of the most successful Las Vegas shows. In fact, it is one of the best shows in the world and is a fitting tribute to Michael Jackson. While it was forced to shutter along with all other live events in early 2020 as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic, it will reopen when it is safe and will continue to entertain audiences for years to come.

2014: The second album featuring previously unreleased recordings, Xscape, was executive produced with L.A. Reid who brought in current producers including Timbaland, and the album also included the first posthumously released duet by Michael. Justin Timberlake joined Michael on a version of “Love Never Felt So Good”. This album went to #1 all over the world and another song from this album, “Slave To The Rhythm”, was featured in the hologram performance on the Billboard Music Awards, which gave the show its biggest ratings in decades.

2016: Based on the success of BAD25, the Estate and Spike Lee partnered on a second documentary, Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown to OFF THE WALL, which looked back at Michael’s early career path and culminates with an in-depth look at Off The Wall. This critically acclaimed documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on Showtime in the United States and by other broadcasters around the world. It was also released on Blu-Ray/DVD.

2017: To celebrate the connection between Michael Jackson and Halloween, there was the premiere of the original animated television special, Michael Jackson’s Halloween, which had the best ratings of the night outside of the World Series game. There were also special events in a half dozen select cities around the world that included the screening of the full length version of Ghosts, Michael’s epic short film with Stan Winston, and a special screening of Thriller 3D, which actually had its premiere at a return trip to the Venice Film Festival.. And there was a release of a Halloween themed compilation album/playlist, Scream. There was also another deal with Pepsi to include Michael in their global campaign, which again included the release of special limited-edition Pepsi cans featuring Michael Jackson imagery.

2018: The critically acclaimed Michael Jackson: On The Wall exhibition premiered at London’s National Portrait Gallery on June 28. Following its record setting run in London, the exhibition travelled to three other major European locations – Paris, France, Bonn, Germany and Espoo, Finland. This innovative and unique experience was appreciated and enjoyed by fans and other members of the general public in each city. •In July, a sample from a previously unreleased Michael Jackson recording, “It Don’t Matter To Me”, was licensed in a new similarly titled Drake recording, “Don’t Matter To Me” to further our intention of introducing Michael to new generations of fans through collaborations with current artists. This duet would become Michael’s 44th top ten Billboard chart hit. •And in August, on what would have been Michael’s 60th birthday, we hosted the Diamond Celebration in Las Vegas. In addition to all of the normal birthday festivities hosted by the Estate at Michael Jackson ONE in Las Vegas every year, there was an extra special party attended by invited guests and fans featuring a DJ set by Mark Ronson and a performance by Usher. •Thriller 3D was premiered in IMAX in a limited 1-week engagement in theaters around the world with the Universal/Amblin release, “The House With A Clock In Its Walls” to rave reviews. We hope to find opportunities to show Thriller 3D again in the future.

2019/2020: The Estate had a number of plans, including those for the 10th anniversary of the release of This Is It, that were all impacted by the release of Leaving Neverland. Regardless of the fact that it is not truthful and will be exposed for its lies, in the short term, its release made other media companies reluctant, at least temporarily, to license any new Michael Jackson programming. This has already started to pass. And, of course, in 2020 we are all dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic that has resulted in a delay for the opening of MJ the Musical on Broadway, as well as impacting other plans we had for this year.

All of this is a way to remind everyone how much the Estate actually has done in the last eleven years, and also to remind everyone that as the result of forces and events out of our control, we had to put a pause on big activities for the last eighteen months. There is a theory – one that Michael subscribed to – that one shouldn’t do too much, give the world a rest, and then surprise them with special projects. That remains the Estate’s intention. Michael continues to be the number one streaming catalog artist in the world and with soar to new heights when the Broadway show opens and we are able to complete and release the other projects in process.”

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TV Guide -  September 17 - 23, 1960

June Allyson (born Eleanor Geisman; October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) Stage, film, and television actress, dancer, and singer. From 1959 to 1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own anthology series, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, which aired on CBS.

The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959-60) ran for two seasons on CBS and was an attempt to use a “high budget” formula. She later called it “the hardest thing I ever did."   Her efforts were dismissed by the entertainment reviewer in the LA Examiner as "reaching down to the level of mag fiction.” However, TV Guide and other fan magazines such as TV considered Allyson’s foray into television as revitalizing her fame and career for a younger audience, and remarked that her stereotyping by the movie industry as the “girl next door” was the “waste and neglect of talent on its own doorstep.”

She also appeared on shows like Zane Grey Theater, The Dick Powell Theatre  and Burke’s Law before retiring for several years in the death of Powell in 1963.

Richard Ewing “Dick” Powell (November 14, 1904 – January 2, 1963) Ssinger, actor, film producer, film director and studio head.   Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he showed versatility and successfully transformed into a hardboiled leading man starring in projects of a more dramatic nature.

In the 1950s, Powell was one of the founders of Four Star Television, along with Charles Boyer, David Niven, and Ida Lupino. He appeared in and supervised several shows for that company. Powell played the role of Willie Dante in Four Star Playhouse, in episodes entitled “Dante’s Inferno” (1952), “The Squeeze” (1953), “The Hard Way” (1953), and “The House Always Wins” (1955). In 1961, Howard Duff, husband of Ida Lupino, assumed the Dante role in a short-lived NBC adventure series Dante, set at a San Francisco nightclub called “Dante’s Inferno”.

Powell guest-starred in numerous Four Star programs, including a 1958 appearance on the Duff-Lupino sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve. He appeared in 1961 on James Whitmore’s legal drama The Law and Mr. Jones on ABC. In the episode “Everybody Versus Timmy Drayton”, Powell played a colonel having problems with his son. Shortly before his death, Powell sang on camera for the final time in a guest-star appearance on Four Star’s Ensign O'Toole, singing “The Song of the Marines”, which he first sang in his 1937 film The Singing Marine.  He hosted and occasionally starred in his Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theater on CBS from 1956–1961, and his final anthology series, The Dick Powell Show on NBC from 1961 through 1963; after his death, the series continued through the end of its second season (as The Dick Powell Theater), with guest hosts.(Wikipedia)

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Vintage Magazine - ABC Film Review (Sept1966) (UK)

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2019 Year In Review

To say 2019 was an AMAZING year for Tamagotchi would be an understatement. Bandai America surprised everyone by announcing and releasing the first english color Tamagotchi, the Tamagotchi On, Bandai Japan released a bunch of Tamagotchi Meets versions, and Bandai Korea released their very first Tamagotchi, the Tamagotchi Some! Let’s take a look back and see what made 2019 so special!

1/23/19

Tamagotchi Featured On ABC’s Schooled

Tamagotchi received some airtime on the new ABC Series Schooled. It was a super cute episode that featured a throwback to the Tamagotchi craze that took over the school hallways back in the late 90’s.

1/26/19

Bandai Japan Releases Eevee Tamagotchi

The Eevee Tamagotchi was highly anticipated by both Tamagotchi and Pokemon fans all over the world. The interest sparked once the device was leaked in late 2018 and around the release in January of 2019. The device was released in Japan and sold out pretty much everywhere which sparked rumors of the device being discontinued.

2/2/19

Bandai Japan Announces Tamagotchi Meets Pastel Version

Leaked months prior, Bandai Japan officially announces the Tamagotchi Meets Pastel version. Beautiful pastel colored shells, adorable characters and locations, little did we know we would have to wait a bit more than we anticipated to get our hands on this version. Delays in production caused the release date to be bumped almost a month, owners of the pastel version know the bugs and glitches on this device are absolutely present.

2/15/19

LEAKED: Tamagotchi Meets Sanrio Version!

Nothing like starting off the new year with a leak, and what better than a Meets version leak? It’s no surprise that Tamagotchi fans LOVE a Sanrio collaboration, so the Tamagotchi Meets Sanrio version got everyone super excited. Sanrio characters, locations, and even exclusive event functionality on the Tamagotchi Meets app! The device would later be released on June 15th, 2019 after officially being announced in April.

2/25/19

Bandai Booth at New York Toy Fair 2019!

As usual Bandai America attended the New York Toy Fair. Tamagotchi had a table which featured the Tamagotchi Original, Gudetama Tamagotchi, and the 20th anniversary Digimon Digital Monster - which was something not announced and came as a surprise to everyone, even us! Now what we didn’t know is that the Bandai America representatives had brought the Tamagotchi On with them, but of course was not shown to anyone!

3/10/19

Tamagotchi Gets Another Primetime Television Appearance

Although no Tamagotchi was present on the set, Tamagotchi was mentioned on an episode of the fifth season of Schitt’s Creek! This was the second but not final Tamagotchi appearance featured on broadcast television.

3/16/19

My Tamagotchi Forever App Celebrates First Anniversary

Doesn’t it feel like this app was released last week? The My Tamagotchi Forever app celebrated a big birthday in 2019 and there were lots of activities to help celebrate!

4/13/19

Disney Japan Announces 2019 Usatama & Usapiyo!

Disney Japan surprised us by releasing a sequence to the original Usatama, a collaboration with Bandai and Disney originally released back in 2017! However like any release, the device was leaked a few weeks prior in MAY magazine. The 2019 version introduces two devices one with Usatama, and another with Usapiyo! New animations and accessories make made this device a perfect Easter gift.

4/19/19

LEAKED: Tamagotchi Meets Fantasy Version!

Another month, another leak. This leak revealed a super cute and totally new version. New fantasy based characters, locations, oh and a totally adorable shell that features jewels! The device would later be announced in early June and released in August and become an instant favorite.

4/26/19

US: Tamagotchi Merchandise Coming Soon!

After seeing licensed merchandise released in Europe such as the Tamagotchi socks & squishy toy, fans in America were wondering if they would ever get their hands on some licensed merchandise. Bandai America informed us we would see some goodies soon, and they did not disappoint! Licensed merchandise release later in 2019 included the Hot Topic t-shirts, and heat change mugs.

5/4/19

20th Anniversary Digimon Digital Monster FAQ’s

After seeing the Digimon Digital Monster at Bandai America’s booth at the 2019 New York Toy Fair Digimon fans went wild. This device was never really officially announced, and they wanted as much information as they could get. Although the device is not technically a Tamagotchi we decided to cover the device since it of course is from Bandai. We reached out to Bandai directly and got fans questions answered, there was even a sequel of the FAQ’s too.

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5/6/19

Tamagotchi ON: What We Know

We remember this day like it was yesterday. Tamagotchi fans pulled up a listing on Amazon of the upcoming Tamagotchi On device. Fans were SHOCKED to see that the device looked identical to the Tamagotchi Meets released back in November of 2018 in Japan but in english! The device was not announced by Bandai America yet, but that did not stop everyone from preordering! Little did we know that we were in for quite the summer.

5/7/19

Bandai America Tease Upcoming Device

Bandai America took to social media to tease an upcoming Tamagotchi, there were actually three teasers. The joke was on them as we knew that the Tamagotchi On was the surprise they were about to announce, but we played along, right?

5/13/19

Tamagotchi ON Press Release

As promised by Bandai America in their social media teasers, the official press release announcing the Tamagotchi On device. The first color english Tamagotchi to be released in North America. Fans were so happy that this was becoming a reality. After 11 years of importing color Tamagotchi’s from Japan, we too would have our very own color device, a localized version of the Tamagotchi Meets. Words cannot describe how significant this moment was for anyone in the Tamagotchi community. We asked, believed, and received.

5/13/19

Tamagotchi On Commercial

What’s a new Tamagotchi without a commercial? We hadn’t seen a Tamagotchi commercial since 2015 for the Tamagotchi Friends, so this was a big deal. Bandai America had to get the word out that a new Tamagotchi is in town, and this one is drastically different from the one you had in your childhood. We thought, and still think the commercial is top notch! More versions, or spots, of this commercial would are released and and grace our television streams a few months later.

5/25/19

20th Anniversary Digimon Digital Monster Unboxing

After getting our hands on the device we booted it up and starting filming our unboxing video. This was a bit different than our other unboxings, as we were not too familiar with the Digimon programing. Much to our surprise our pre-production unit did not arrive with an instruction manual. It took us a few hours to film because we were waiting to see if the second generation allowed users to select between different egg types which determines the character of the next generation.

5/29/19

Our Tamagotchi On Has Arrived!

We were so happy to get the our hands on the Tamagotchi On device months before the release, and it was amazing! Having the device first allowed us to post our unboxing video, pictures, and answer some of your questions!

6/5/19

Bandai Japan Apologizes for Eevee Tamagotchi Problems

Bandai Japan released an official apology for the Eevee Tamagotchi problems that users were experiencing. This was released right on the TamaTV.com website, and is actually still posted there too. The apology does not go into detail about the problems, but encouraged users to reach out to Bandai Customer Service Center for a replacement device if there were any issues with theirs.

6/6/19

Tama-Palace Featured in CBS News Article!

The announcement of the Tamagotchi On was HUGE for the Tamagotchi community, and the media was looking to capture the attention for an article. CBS News got in touch with us about the upcoming device and we were interviewed about how the community has reacted to the device, and how it effected our website and fanbase.

6/15/19

Tamagotchi Featured on ABC’s Jeopardy!

Did you ever think you would see Tamagotchi on Jeopardy? Well it happened! Back in June Tamagotchi was featured in the “Remember the 1990’s?” category on the popular ABC prime-time show. The first contestant called it a tomato-gotchi, silly Becky. Right after E.J. answered it correctly, Tamagotchi.

7/4/19

Tamagotchi Classic App Being Retired July 17th!

Bandai announced that the Tamagotchi Classic application available on both iOS and Android would soon be retired. If you have the app you can of course continue to use it, but after July 17th it would no longer be available in the App Store or Play Store.

7/8/19

Tamagotchi On First Impressions

What would a new device launch be without our first impression article? We had our hands on the device for a little over a month and we wanted to spread the word about how amazing this device is! This device has set the standard for upcoming Tamagotchi releases worldwide!

7/14/19

LEAKED: Tamagotchi Some, Korea’s Tamagotchi Meets

We were shocked to see an english color Tamagotchi being released in North America, we had no idea that Bandai had additional plans to a country they’ve never sold Tamagotchi in before. The leak revealed that Bandai Korea was preparing to announce the Tamagotchi Some, a localized version of the Tamagotchi Meets & On but of course in the Korean language! Upon announcement the device was noticeably missing a key feature, bluetooth - so Tamagotchi Some users are unable to use the application. This is super exciting to see Tamagotchi making its way to new countries!

7/28/19

Tamagotchi On Launch Day!

This is a huge launch in Tamagotchi history! Finally an english color Tamagotchi outside of Japan, oh yes and it’s available on retail shelves. Huge accomplishment for the Bandai America team has they worked tirelessly on this device which included a unique partnership with the Bandai Japan team.

7/28/19

PSA: Tamagotchi On iOS App Now AVAILABLE!

Tamagotchi fans were getting impatient about the Tamagotchi On app. Of course the device was scheduled to be released on July 28th, 2019, but they wanted the app sooner. Bandai America officially released the application on July 28th, 2019 in the afternoon on both the App Store and Play Store.

8/27/19

LEAKED: Tamagotchi Meets Sweets Version

Yet another leak, this time its super sweet. The Tamagotchi Meets Sweets version is everything a Tamagotchi fan with a sweet tooth wanted, chocolate, macarons, and everything in between. The initial leaked image featured a milk chocolate drip on the front shell, after being announced Bandai Japan would later switch it to a pink chocolate drip, this did not settle too well with the community.

9/20/19

Tamagotchi On Scores Spot On The Toy Insider’s 2019 Holiday Gift Guide!

Awesome accomplishment here! The Tamagotchi On was featured on the popular gift guide which would give it the exposure needed to let the world know that Tamagotchi On is here! This also allowed the Tamagotchi On to be featured on various network television shows.

9/21/19

Bandai America Announces White Magical Tamagotchi On

No one saw this coming. Bandai America surprised everyone by announcing the white magical Tamagotchi On! We did not expect to get this device, which is a localized version of the white magical Tamagotchi On. The device remains an Amazon exclusive.

10/1/19

Bandai Korea Releases Tamagotchi Some Commercial

Not only did Korea get their very first Tamagotchi launch, they got a SUPER cute commercial. This claymation commercial was the perfect way to introduce the country to the newest Tamagotchi which is now regionally available!

10/23/19

Tamagotchi On Lands A Spot In The 2019 Target Toy Book!

Tamagotchi On got featured in a major toy book in the United States. You may recall that the 2017 Tamagotchi Mini did get featured back in 2017 too! Not only did the device get featured, but it was also on sale for a good period of time, and with an additional 25% coupon, fans were able to get one for just $37.49!

11/1/19

McDonald’s Announces Return Of Iconic Tamagotchi Happy Meal Toy!

Retro! This was an adorable campaign that McDonald’s launched to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Happy Meal. The Tamagotchi Happy Meal toy along with sixteen other toys returned to help celebrate. Quantities were limited and the promotion only ran for four days. If you were luck enough to get your hands on the Tamagotchi Happy Meal toy you’re probably enjoying its red flashlight functionality or just wearing it as a fashion accessory.

11/3/19

Tamagotchi & Pac-Man Team Up To Celebrate Pac-Man’s 40th Anniversary

Another collaboration? Bring it on! Bandai Namco US teed an upcoming collaboration with Pac-Man to help celebrate the 40th anniversary. A Pac-Man Tamagotchi is very much going to be released in 2020 and we just can’t wait to hear more about it!

12/11/19

Bandai America Announces New Tamagotchi Original Shells

New year, new shells. Bandai America announced four new additional shell designs to the Tamagotchi lineup via their social media profiles. The four new designs will join the existing lineup and will be released in February of 2020! Preorders are currently listed on Amazon.

2019 was PHENOMENAL for Tamagotchi, the best one yet in our opinion. This is the largest and most exciting year in review we have written to this date. Bandai really brought it and expanded the brand to new countries! We are looking forward to an even better 2020, so stay tuned to Tama-Palace for the latest and greatest Tamagotchi news. Happy New Year!

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Diahann Carroll, Pioneering Actress on ‘Julia’ and 'Dynasty,’ Dies at 84

She also landed an historic Tony Award, plus an Oscar nomination for her performance in 'Claudine.'

Diahann Carroll, the captivating singer and actress who came from the Bronx to win a Tony Award, receive an Oscar nomination and make television history with her turns on Julia and Dynasty, has died Friday. She was 84.

Carroll died at her home in Los Angeles after a long bout with cancer, her daughter, producer-journalist Suzanne Kay, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Carroll was known as a Las Vegas and nightclub performer and for her performances on Broadway and in the Hollywood musicals Carmen Jones and Porgy & Bess when she was approached by an NBC executive to star as Julia Baker, a widowed nurse raising a young son, on the comedy Julia.

She didn't want to do it. "I really didn't believe that this was a show that was going to work," she said in a 1998 chat for the website The Interviews: An Oral History of Television. "I thought it was something that was going to leave someone's consciousness in a very short period of time. I thought, 'Let them go elsewhere.' "

However, when Carroll learned that Hal Kanter, the veteran screenwriter who created the show, thought she was too glamorous for the part, she was determined to change his mind. She altered her hairstyle and mastered the pilot script, quickly convincing him that she was the right woman.

Carroll thus became the first African-American female to star in a non-stereotypical role in her own primetime network series. (Several actresses portrayed a maid on ABC's Beulah in the early 1950s.)

Baker, whose husband had died in Vietnam, worked for a doctor (Lloyd Nolan) at an aerospace company; she was educated and outspoken, and she dated men (including characters played by Fred Williamson, Paul Winfield and Don Marshall) who were successful, too.

"We were saying to the country, 'We're going to present a very upper middle-class black woman raising her child, and her major concentration is not going to be about suffering in the ghetto,' " Carroll noted.

"Many people were incensed about that. They felt that [African Americans] didn't have that many opportunities on television or in film to present our plight as the underdog … they felt the [real-world] suffering was much too acute to be so trivial as to present a middle-class woman who is dealing with the business of being a nurse.

"But we were of the opinion that what we were doing was important, and we never left that point of view … even though some of that criticism of course was valid. We were of a mind that this was a different show. We were allowed to have this show."

Julia, which premiered in September 1968, finished No. 7 in the ratings in the first of its three seasons, and Carroll received an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe for her work.

As the sultry fashionista Dominique Deveraux — the first prominently featured African-American character on a primetime soap opera — Carroll played a much edgier character for three seasons on ABC's Dynasty and its spinoff The Colbys, delightfully dueling with fellow diva Alexis Carrington Colby (Joan Collins).

While recuperating after starring on Broadway in Agnes of God, Carroll had found herself digging Dynasty — "Isn't this the biggest hoot?" she said — and lobbied producer Aaron Spelling for a role on his series.

"They've done everything [on the show]. They've done incest, homosexuality, murder. I think they're slowly inching their way toward interracial," she recalled in a 1984 piece for People magazine. "I want to be wealthy and ruthless … I want to be the first black bitch on television."

Carroll made perhaps her biggest mark on the big screen with her scrappy title-role performance in Claudine (1974), playing a Harlem woman on welfare who raises six children on her own and falls for a garbage collector (James Earl Jones).

The part was originally given to her dear friend, Diana Sands. But when Sands (who had played Julia Baker's cousin on several episodes of Julia) was stricken with cancer, she suggested Carroll take her place.

"The producers said, 'How can she do this role? No one would believe she could do it," Carroll said. "I remember the headline in the paper: 'Would you believe Jackie Onassis as a welfare mother?' … The very coupling of the name Jackie Onassis and Diahann Carroll is very interesting, if you think about it. There question was, how do we make anyone believe that she has [six] children? And to be nominated for an Academy Award, to do that, it was the best, the best."

Carol Diahann Johnson was born in Fordham Hospital in the Bronx on July 17, 1935. Her father, John, was a subway conductor when she was young, and her mother, Mabel, a nurse. She won a scholarship to the High School of Music & Art, where Billy Dee Williams was a classmate.

At 15, she began to model clothing for black-audience magazines like Ebony,Tan and Jett. Her dad disapproved at first, then began to reconsider when she told him she had earned $600 for a session.  

Her parents drove her to Philadelphia on many weekends so she could be a contestant on the TV talent show Teen Club, hosted by bandleader Paul Whiteman. And then she won several times on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts program, where she first billed herself as Diahann Carroll.

After enrolling at NYU to study psychology, she appeared on the Dennis James-hosted ABC talent show Chance of a Lifetime in 1953 and won for several weeks. One of her rewards was a regular engagement to perform at the famed Latin Quarter nightclub in Manhattan.

Christine Jorgensen taught her how to "carry" herself onstage, she said, and she moved in with her manager, training and rehearsing every day. She soon was singing in the Persian Room at New York's Plaza Hotel and at other hotspots including Ciro's, The Mocambo and The Cloister in Hollywood, The Black Orchid in Chicago and L'Olympia in Paris.

She soon dropped out of college to pursue performing full-time and was brought to Los Angeles to audition for Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones (1954), landing the role of Myrt opposite the likes of Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge.

At the end of 1954, she made her Broadway debut as the young star of the Truman Capote-Harold Arlen musical House of Flowers. Walter Kerr in The New York Herald Tribune called her "a plaintive and extraordinarily appealing ingenue."

She was cast to play Clara in Preminger and Rouben Mamoulian's movie adaptation of Porgy and Bess (1959), but her voice was considered too low for her character's Summertime number, so another singer dubbed for her.

She met Sidney Poitier on that film, thus beginning what she described as a "very turbulent" nine-year romance with him. (Carroll then had first non-singing movie role, playing a schoolteacher opposite Poitier, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in 1961's Paris Blues).

She would become renowned for her phrasing, partially a result of her studying with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.

In 1963, she earned the first of her four career Emmy noms for portraying a teacher yet again on ABC's gritty Naked City.

Richard Rodgers spotted her during one of her frequent singing appearances on Jack Paar's Tonight Show and decided to compose a Broadway musical for her. After scrapping the idea to have her portray an Asian in 1958's Flower Drum Song, he wrote 1962's No Strings, a love story revolving around an African-American fashion model (Carroll) and a nebbish white novelist (Richard Kiley).

His first effort following the death of longtime collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II, it brought Carroll rave reviews and a Tony Award, the first given to a black woman for best actress in a lead role of a musical.

Soon after hosting a CBS summer replacement variety show in 1976, she retired from show business and moved to Oakland. Landing the role of Dominique — the half-sister of John Forsythe's Blake Carrington — in 1984 put her back on the map in Hollywood.

She told the show's writers: "The most important thing to remember is write for a white male, and you'll have the character. Don't try to write for what you think I am. Write for a white man who wants to be wealthy and powerful. And that's the way we found Dominique Deveraux."

More recently, Carroll had recurring roles as Jasmine Guy's mother on NBC's A Different World, as Isaiah Washington's mom on ABC's Grey's Anatomy and as a Park Avenue widow on USA's White Collar. She also appeared in such films as Eve's Bayou (1997) and on stage as Norman Desmond in a musical version of Sunset Blvd.

She was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2011.

Carroll recorded several albums during her career and wrote the memoirs Diahann, published in 1986, and The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, Mothering and Other Things I Learned Along the Way, in 2008.

She was married four times: to Monte Kay, a manager and a casting consultant on House of Flowers; to Freddie Glusman, a Las Vegas clothier (that union lasted just a few weeks); to magazine editor Robert DeLeon (he died in an auto accident in 1977); and to singer Vic Damone (from 1987 until their 1996 divorce). She also had a three-year romance with talk-show host David Frost.

In addition to her daughter, survivors include her grandchildren, August and Sydney.

Duane Byrge contributed to this report.

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OPINION: May Diahann Carroll rest in peace!  She was a great actress for many years.🙏