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Margot Ramos - Never Have I Ever, S04E02

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When I started watching "The Oscars" tonight, I was fully prepared to be disappointed but, to my surprise, I wasn't!

Taika Waititi won Best Adapted Screenplay, Elton John & Bernie Taupin won Best Original Song, Bong Joon-ho won Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, Jacqueline Durran won Best Costume Design and Parasites won both Best International Feature Film and Best Picture!

Joaquin Phoenix used his speech to deliver a very important message about modern problems and the biggest problem today - global warming, which is just legendary

Janelle Monáe's opening number was breathtaking and the moment, when Anthony Ramos introduced Lin-Manuel Miranda was iconic!

And of course the Red Carpet was amazing! I'm talking about Billy Porter, Janelle Monáe, Nathalie Portman, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Taika Waititi, Billy Eilish, Brie Larson, Margot Robbie and Beanie Feldstein! They were all fashion icons and icons in general!

I'm actually very happy and I really didn't think it was possible ;''))))

[newyorktheater]

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Leslie Odom Jr in Tick,Tick…Boom in 2014

Miranda in Mary Poppins Returns

A scene from the original

Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos, and Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda is making his film directorial debut in a movie version of “Tick,Tick…Boom!” an early, semi-autobiographical musical by “Rent” composer Jonathan Larsen about a struggling musical theater writer. Miranda performed in a production of the show at City Center’s Encores! in 2014 (pictured above with his Hamilton co-star Leslie Odom, Jr.). But that’s not the only film news involving Miranda. We already know about his starring role in “Mary Poppins Returns,” which will be in movie theaters in December, and the plans to turn his musical “In The Heights” into a film, aiming for completion in 2020. Now there is a report in  the Wall Street Journal,that “Hamilton” may also be coming to the local cineplex.  ‘Hollywood studios are currently bidding for the big-screen rights to Lin-Manuel Mirandas hit musical..  But in an unusual twist, the “Hamilton” movie won’t be a filmed adaptation. Instead, it is a recording of the show made in 2016 with its original cast, including Mr. Miranda in the lead role.” Bidding could go as high as $50 million, which seems reasonable considering that the show reportedly has grossed nearly $400 million in New York alone since opening in 2015.   Meanwhile, the composer, director and actor prepares to take “Hamilton” to Puerto Rico, as he explains in this interview on the Today Show. https://youtu.be/zHv4G1xw3As Below more news about filmed theater, involving Bruce Springsteen and Jennifer Hudson, among others, as well news as about staged theater — the latest theater awards, the closing of an Andrew Lloyd Webber show, the new seasons at Lincoln Center, The Flea, The Bushwick Starr, a “critic’s corner” that features some (more) sad news and some controversy; and an unusual break for the over-40 theatergoer.

The Week in New York Theater Reviews

Stephen Payne, Josh Charles, Armie Hammer, and Paul Schneider in Straight White Men

Straight White Men “Straight White Men,” a thought-provoking play by Young Jean Lee with a terrifically entertaining cast of Broadway newcomers including Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and Paul Schneider as rowdy brothers, might to some theatergoers seem designed initially to mislead, and ultimately to befuddle. By its title alone, one could assume – incorrectly – that the play will be an acid satire. This impression is fortified by an unusual prologue….What follows, though, is more or less the same play that I saw at the Public Theater in 2014, a sympathetic and straightforward look at a family of four adult men, gathered together to celebrate Christmas. Each has adjusted to the world, and their privileged place in it, in different ways.

Jelani Remy, Shavey Brown, John Edwards, Dwayne Cooper, and Max Sangerman.

Smokey Joe’s Cafe Near the beginning of “Smokey Joe’s Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller,” the new Off-Broadway revival of the long-running Broadway musical revue, performer Jelani Remy does a double back flip while singing the Elvis hit, “Jailhouse Rock.” It is the most memorable example in the show of what we can call The Bergasse Workout, which I’m naming after the production’s inventive and obviously demanding director/choreographer Joshua Bergasse…Five men and four women deliver 40 musical numbers in 90 minutes – no time for idle chat…or any dialogue whatsoever.

Josh Lamon as Prince and Lesli Magherita as Princess

Emojiland “Emojiland,” an entry in the 2018 New York Musical Festival, is set inside a smart phone, with the resident emojis facing a “textistential” crisis —  the phone is due for a software update. That’s in the first act. In the second act, they face a virus. A dozen talented performers, including Broadway stalwarts Lesli Margherita and Josh Lamon portray Smiley Face 😀 and Angry Face😠 and Worried Face 😟 and Weary Face 😩 and a whole raft of icons I’ve never used before, nor knew they existed — 📻🙄💂‍♂️💀ℹ🤓😎👷‍♀️🤴👸👮‍♀️🤰🏽😘, including 💩 pile of poo. The result is a hilarious entertainment, mostly — though one is greatly tempted to call it two-dimensional. If Sand Were Stone Billie has Alzheimer’s. “If Sand Were Stone,” an entry at the 2018 New York Musical Festival, presents Billie’s deterioration over a span of two years, and its effect on her husband Marvin and daughter Margaux. The title of the musical comes from a quote by Jorge Luis Borges, reprinted in the program: “Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand. But we must build as if the sand were stone.” I can’t recommend this musical. There’s too much that doesn’t work…Yet it’s hard to dismiss Fire in Dreamland

The Week in Awards

New York Innovative Theater Awards 2018 nominations for the best Off-Off Broadway Third Annual Samuel French Awards: The Secret Garden  (writing team Lucy Simon & Marsha Norman), Award for Sustained Excellence in American Theatre Doug Wright, Award for Impact & Activism in the Theatre Community for his work as president of the Dramatists Guild Antoinette Nwandu, the Next Step Award, support for a playwright, composer or lyricist working toward the next level of their career.

The Week in New York Theater News

School of Rock will end on Broadway on January 20, 2019, having played 1,307 regular performances, just over three years.

Bruce Springsteen reminiscing at the Tony Awards about his hometown while accompanying himself on the piano, before singing “My Hometown.”

Springsteen On Broadway will be shown on Netflix Dec 15, which is also the final night of its 236-show Broadway run at the Walter Kerr. CATS is being made into a film. Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, James Corden, and Ian McKellen will star. Lisa Brescia, six-time Broadway vet (Elphaba in Wicked, Donna in Mamma Mia) takes over from Rachel Bay Jones as Heidi Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen starting August 7   Here’s a twist. During previews, Gettin The Band Back Together will offer 40 tickets per performance for $40 each for people 40 years of age and older. “because we know 40-year-olds have responsibilities and bad backs that may prohibit them from sleeping on sidewalks.” Use code BT40440. The musical opens on August 13th.

New Seasons Off and Off-Off Broadway

At Lincoln Center: 1. A new play by Tom Stoppard “The Hard Problem,” about a young psychology student facing difficult questions. eg. Is altruism possible without self-interest? Directed by Jack O’Brian. Opens Nov 19 2. “Plot Points in Our Sexual Development” a contemporary queer love story Oct 6-Nov 18. Written by Miranda Rose Hall, direccted by Margot Bordelon

The new Flea theater

2018-2019 Season @TheFleaTheater on the theme of “Color Brave”

Scraps, about a police shooting, Aug 15-Sept 24 Emma & Max, about city’s well-off and worn-down, Oct 1-28 Hype Man, Nov 10 – Dec 1 Also, plays by @KristianaSpeaks & #ThomasBradshaw https://t.co/GG5qpg56uV pic.twitter.com/NKdmxRz23V — New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) July 18, 2018

The Bushwick Starr’s Tenth Anniversary Season Ugly by Raja Feather Kelly Sept 5-8 The Things That Were There by David Greenspan  Oct 10-Nov 4 The Infinite Love Party by Diana Oh January 11 – February 2 Suicide Forest by Kristine Haruna Lee February 27 – March 16, 2019 The 9th Annual Big Green Theater Festival April 26 – 28, 2019 CABIN by Sean Donovan May 22- June 8 Details

Critics Corner

1. Another Theater Critic – and Newspaper — Erased

Well, 17.5 years later, the Daily News and I have parted ways. It was a great ride that included 12 seasons of reviewing Broadway and off; writing 100s features, news stories and more. Head high, heart heavy, eyes forward! Any leads – I’m up!

— Joe Dziemianowicz (@TheJoeDShow) July 23, 2018

Joe is one of many at the Daily News who’ve been laid off. The Daily News will cut half of its newsroom staff…The paper was sold to @tronc Inc. last year for $1, with the owner of @ChicagoTribune assuming liabilities and debt.

A year before @tronc laid off half its staff at @NYDailyNews, it paid $15 million to its chairman, Michael Ferro, resigning just ahead of sexual harassment allegations against him.@AlbertBurneko asks angrily: Shouldn’t something like this be illegal?https://t.co/uAEku791li

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) July 24, 2018

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Theater criticism must be supported, says @thestage editor @smithalistair, for these six reasons: pic.twitter.com/6fRPFNHQ4n

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) July 22, 2018

3. Fat Shaming Review? In Laura Collins-Hughes’ review of Smokey Joe Café: “Ms. Umphress, by the way, is bigger than the other women onstage, and the costume designer, Alejo Vietti, doesn’t seem to have known how to work with that, dressing her in an unnecessarily unflattering way.” https://

A thought. @collinshughes @nytimes @hellerNYT #bodypositivity pic.twitter.com/JGbDzboo05

— Alysha Umphress (@Cristalzheat) July 23, 2018

It is in no way shameful to be big, let alone bigger than the other women onstage. My remark about the costuming reflects on the designer. This is not the first time I’ve noticed a designer seemingly at a loss about how to dress a larger woman well.

— Laura Collins-Hughes (@collinshughes) July 23, 2018

RIP Gary Beach, 70, nine-time Broadway veteran, a Tony winner for his role as flamboyant theater director Roger De Bris in The Producers

“This administration gains its power by fomenting a sense of hopelessness. We defy it with a spirit of celebration, of abundance, and of connection.” – theater director & educator @LPortes67 at opening of #LTCCarnaval18 (celebrating Latinx theater artists/@CafeOnda) at @DePaulU pic.twitter.com/QyIvW871mZ

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) July 20, 2018

Lin-Manuel Miranda Goes Hollywood and to Puerto Rico. Hamilton Too? The Week in NY Theater Lin-Manuel Miranda is making his film directorial debut in a movie version of "Tick,Tick...Boom!" an early, semi-autobiographical musical by "Rent" composer Jonathan Larsen about a struggling musical theater writer.

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4 Things I Loved About the Netflix Reboot of Spike Lee’s ‘She’s Gotta Have It’

Spike Lee’s cinematic debut, She’s Gotta Have It, premiered in theatres in 1986. Shot in grainy black and white and centering Lee’s beloved Brooklyn as as much a focal point as the film’s characters, She’s Gotta Have It is the story of a 20-something year-old Black woman, Nola Darling (DeWanda Wise), and her trio of lovers: Jamie Overstreet (Lyriq Bent), Greer Childs (Cleo Anthony), and Mars Blackmon (Anthony Ramos). The original feature-length treatment of the characters and the topics of polyamory, sexual freedom, and a woman’s agency over her own body and desires was not without what would soon become Lee’s familiar heavy-handed, message-laden approach to storytelling; his oeuvre teems with films and documentaries where subtlety is seldom found, and elements that would be considered subliminal in other filmmakers’ hands smack you across the face with neither apologies offered nor fucks to give. This is what makes Spike Lee a brilliant and equally bewildering auteur; this is what keeps those of us who love his work coming back for more—even enduring mishaps such as Da Sweet Blood of Jesus. We know Spike is gonna Spike, that he’s going to incorporate a level of boisterousness where a lighter touch would’ve been just fine. But this is why we can’t quit Spike, and without a doubt we’d be bored as hell with his work if it didn’t simultaneously irk and inspire.

Series star DeWanda Wise as Nola Darling in the Netflix re-boot of Spike Lee’s ‘She’s Gotta Have It’

In the Netflix iteration of Lee’s inaugural film, which emerged on the streaming platform on Thanksgiving Day (and this, I am sure, was no accident), Lee has managed to contemporize the original premise of the mid-‘80s film in a number of ways: The Netflix series is in color, infuses current issues and events (#BlackLivesMatter, that clown in the White House, gentrification) into the storyline, and makes interesting use of the technology to which most of us have become addicted. While there has been no shortage of criticism about the reboot—including the common theme that accompanies most of Lee’s output, that he’s too involved in too many aspects of it and really should fall back more than he is prone to do—much of the more casual chatter on Facebook and Twitter threads suggests that the revamped She’s Gotta Have It resonates especially well among the portion of the audience that may have seen the original, either when it was first released in theatres or sometime later on cable. There are obvious (and honestly, inaccurate) comparisons to Issa Rae’s HBO smash, Insecure, with a smattering of Millennials opining that Lee is somehow trying to copy Rae with his series, but the truth is that both Rae’s TV namesake and Lee’s Nola are not one in the same, despite some similarities.

With plenty having already been written about the series’ shortcomings, I wanted to shed light on the aspects of the She’s Gotta Have It re-imagining that work well. Here are the 4 things I’m loving about the series.

The Music

Spike Lee has always used music to extraordinary effect in his work, from his father, Bill Lee’s, gorgeous scores and original compositions to the soundtracks that accompany his films. With ‘She’s Gotta Have It,’ Lee reminds us that he’s not only nice behind the camera, he has an almost otherworldly connection with music that allows him to incorporate it in innovative ways. The Netflix series’ theme song that runs over the opening credits of each episode is the instrumental version of “Happy Birthday Nola,” a song Bill Lee composed for the original film. But the truest jewels are the songs interwoven within scenes—whether it’s an R&B favorite like Maxwell’s cover of Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work” or a popular standard like Frank Sinatra’s “Witchcraft.” The music selection is diverse, intentional, and serves as almost an omnipotent observer of the characters’ interactions and entanglements. Much like radio DJs back in the day would announce the song and artist as one track transitioned into the next, Lee drops album cover art into the scenes to provide visual information about the music. In a particularly brilliant moment, Lee punctuates a pivotal scene in Nola Darling’s late-season evolution with MeShell Ndegeocello’s poignant and haunting “Faithful,” setting his camera on the lead character as she rotates slowly before a deconstructed canvas of one of her paintings. For a full list of the songs featured in the first season, click here.

Bill Lee’s “Happy Birthday Nola” from the original film

The Cameos

You’ll be hard-pressed to find a Spike Lee joint that doesn’t feature some pleasant and surprising cameos from heavyweights across the entertainment and even political landscape. Lee’s sister, Joie Lee, appeared in the original film as Nola Darling’s friend and former roommate, Clorinda. In the Netflix series, Joie Lee portrays Nola Darling’s mother, Septima. Hip-hop icon Fab Five Freddy makes a quick appearance as a fellow artist showing at the Diastopian exhibit curated by 2017’s Clorinda (played by Margot Bingham), and of course, Spike himself shows up as a bartender. One of the most moving cameos, however, is that of Tracy Camilla Johns, who originated the role of Nola Darling in the 1986 film. Johns’ unnamed character approaches 21st century Nola at her art show and praises the younger woman’s work. Nola muses something along the lines of “you look familiar” to her past life counterpart, and while that line probably could’ve been left out of the scene it certainly didn’t ruin the full-circle moment. It’s also interesting to note that Johns makes a short appearance in Lee’s 2012 film, ‘Red Hook Summer,’ as Mother Darling, ostensibly reprising her role as the lover-ly Nola, but with an unexpected twist.

The original cast

The Character Development

With the original film, we only got to know the core characters in relation to one another. Although we first met Nola Darling as she establishes to the audience that she’s not a freak or anyone’s property, and we experience her lovers primarily through their interactions with and reactions to her, there isn’t much in the way of backstory, family, or history. Blame it on the confines of storytelling on the big screen, where there often isn’t much time for expository information or fleshing out of every detail. With the Netflix series, we get to know the characters with a bit more depth. Nola has parents—actress Septima (Joie Lee) and musician Stokes (Thomas Jefferson Byrd); girlfriends Clorinda, Shemekka (Chyna Lane), Rachel (Elise Hudson); an unexpected mentor in the form of the fabulous, third-person referring Raqueletta Moss (De’Adre Aziza);  and an old friend from high school, Papo Da Mayor (Elvis Nolasco), a fellow artist who returned from serving in Afghanistan to discover his beloved Brooklyn no longer belonged to him. While Nola’s lone woman romantic interest, Opal, served more as a foil to her harem of men and wasn’t given nearly the breadth her character deserved in the 1986 film, the 2017 re-working allows her to take up significant space in Nola’s life. Portrayed by Ilfenesh Hadera, this Opal is a single mother and successful business owner, and the only one of Nola’s lovers to actual set boundaries with her. The men also get more flesh, so to speak. We find out Jamie is married and has a son; Mars lives with his sister, a Yoruba priestess; and Greer is a photographer with an African American father and French mother and who has a penchant for painting his thumbs with silver gel nail polish.

The Prince Tribute

Anyone who knows Spike Lee and his work knows he loves Prince. Why else would he have tapped the artist to submit an entire soundtrack for Lee’s 1996 release, Girl 6? But beyond incorporating Prince’s music into his works, Spike Lee and Prince enjoyed a particularly symbiotic relationship: Prince was one of the celebrities who helped Lee fund Malcolm X when the studio wouldn’t provide any more financial support; Lee directed the video for Prince’s “Money Don’t Matter 2 Night” from the Diamonds and Pearls album. Their unique brotherhood afforded both with a much-needed entertainment biz ally and friendship, so it’s only right that Spike would choose to pay tribute to the Purple Yoda in the series. The first episode kicks off with the iconic countdown from “Raspberry Beret,” and in a memorable scene from one of the season’s later episodes (penned by Radha Blank) Nola name checks Prince as one of the numerous beams of light extinguished by the ultimate fuckboi, the year that was 2016. In the series’ final episode, which takes place on Thanksgiving, Nola places a pin fashioned like Prince’s legendary love symbol guitar at each of the four place settings on her dinner table.  Mars, the first of Nola’s boo thangs to arrive for dinner, presents her with a vinyl copy of the Around the World in a Day album, her “favorite.” At dinner, Nola and her men affix the pins just above their hearts, and in an uncharacteristically nod to the aforementioned always absent subtlety, Lee dresses all of the characters in various shades of purple. Even the drape covering the painting Nola will reveal to the men after dinner is purple, in stark contrast from the beige and soft greens throughout the rest of her apartment. To bring the episode and season to a perfectly purple close, the cast dances around Nola’s home to “Raspberry Beret” before collapsing onto Nola’s bed, with each man disappearing and finally leaving Ms. Darling along while Prince’s rhythm guitar—punctuated by finger cymbals—strums as the scene fades.

So, what’d you think about Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It series? Are you hoping for a second season? 

--Rhonda Nicole

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She's Gotta Have It - Trailer

Who is Nola Darling? Return to the story and character of the very first Spike Lee joint, now a 10 episode series on Netflix, available this Thanksgiving. 

 Thirty years ago, Spike Lee burst onto the independent filmmaking scene with his groundbreaking look at one free-spirited artist making it happen for herself in Brooklyn, New York. Now, Miss Nola Darling returns in a timely, topical update of the visionary writer-director’s She’s Gotta Have It.

The series stars breakout actress DeWanda Wise as Nola Darling, an uncompromising woman in her late twenties struggling to define herself and divide her time among her Friends, her Job and her Three Lovers: The Cultured Model, Greer Childs, The Protective Investment Banker, Jamie Overstreet and Da Original B-Boy Sneakerhead, Mars Blackmon. Nola is not who you want her to be. Nola is now—she is outspoken, complicated, progressive, unapologetic, passionate, sexual. Nola is the modern black woman. 

 Nola’s story is set entirely in Fort Greene, the vibrant Brooklyn enclave that’s home to a thriving artists’ colony but also evolving and changing in the modern era as gentrification remakes the neighborhood. Fort Greene isn’t just a backdrop for She’s Gotta Have It—the community functions as a key supporting character unto itself. 

 Created and executive produced by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee through their 40 Acres banner, She’s Gotta Have It stars DeWanda Wise, Lyriq Bent, Cleo Anthony, Ilfenesh Hadera, Margot Bingham, and Anthony Ramos as Mars Blackmon, the iconic role originated by Spike Lee.

[creepykingdom]

The Final “Joker” Trailer Prepares Us to Send in the Clowns

by Ivan Ramos

HEY THERE READER! Do like colorful clowns, with colorful silly faces and silly outfits? YOU DO!? What’s your favorite thing about them? Is it their silly dances? Their playful pranks? Them juggling pins for your amusement? Offering you hot dogs, popcorn, cotton candy, or maybe a purple balloon? As you lose yourself in your laughter from the silly clowns. You start to notice more clowns appearing before you all of a sudden, making you laugh painfully. Each clown’s appearance change from different colorful faces and outfits. To green hair, pale white faces with a big red smile and purple jumpsuits. You can’t stop laughing all of a sudden as the pain gets greater as you laugh harder and harder, until you find yourself in front of the clown prince of crime. The Joker! Terrified as you can’t control your painful laughter while the Joker happily walks towards you with his infamous smile, while he leans forward and says, “Let’s put a smile on that face!”. As he sprays his iconic Joker toxin from his boutonniere (his flower coat pocket), the two of you start laughing maniacally as your face turns into a sinister grin, knowing that the Joker’s laugh is the last thing you hear.

That’s right ladies and gentlemen, we’re gonna be talking about the finale Joker trailer that dropped in on August 28 of this year! Now I didn’t went for an early screening at the Venice Film Festival, but the reviews for the Joker is astonishing. Given the fact that it received 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, 9.6/10 on IMDb, and a 10 on IGN. Including a standing ovation for eight minutes at the Venice Film Festival when the movie ended! When a movie receives a standing ovation for that long, then it has to be a Oscar winning movie. Which I totally had faith in this movie with Joaquin Phoenix’s performance as the Joker and Todd Phillps as director, giving us a fresh new take on the Joker that’s done right! Unlike the last Joker we got in Suicide Squad by Jared Leto, giving Harley Quinn (played by Margot Robbie) such disservice for the character. The Joker movie is a must see masterpiece, by Todd Phillps. Giving us a fresh new take on the character and trying something new in the movie, while still giving you your daily dose of comic book fix.

What new things does the movie have to offer, will it’s not gonna offer us a horrible version of the Joker with a terrible laugh. No, it’ll offer a new view within the Joker’s origin on how he became the Joker without Batman’s involvement. Which is something worth watching, in my opinion of what the movie will offer. It’ll offer and relate to us, the viewers. The Joker in this movie is Arthur fleck, living as an ordinary person climbing the stairs of hardships like everyone else. Especially me with my hardships in life, it shows our hardships in symbolic way in a scene where Arthur Fleck is climbing up the stairs early in the morning. Representing hardships when we have to get up early in the morning for work every week. We get up, go to work to pay bills, rent, gas for our car, and to be in a relationship. Just like Arthur in the movie, until it takes one bad day that will change his life around. Where that one bad day transforms Arthur Fleck into Joker, where things start to come around for him as the Joker. From a skinny miserable comedian trying to get a break in stand up. To a TV celebrity as his new persona, where he’s more healthy looking and happier as he dances down the stairs from his hardships. And we can all overcome our hardships in life, minus the chaos and riots taking place in Gotham City as the Joker. This movie will be a breath of fresh air for DC and Warner Brothers, knowing the film did fantastic at the Venice Film Festival. It’s a sign that it’ll be one of the best movies of 2019.

That is my opinion and reason to go watch Joker in October fourth in theaters, and perfect before Halloween comes around. In case you’ll be wanting to trick or treat as the Joker. Note this to any DC parents with kids, the movie is rated R, so parents…...do not take your kids to see Joker, it will not have Batman in it, I repeat. BATMAN WILL NOT APPEAR IN THE MOVIE! Well maybe he will in the after credits maybe, who knows? So are you excited for the Joker movie? Will it make you dress up as the Joker for Halloween? Which version of the Joker is your favorite? Tell us on social media @creepykingdom​

And be sure to tune in next time……same creepy time, same creepy channel, only on CreepyKingdom.com! And remember to put on a smile on that face! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(All Images Courtesy of Warner Bros)

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hope you're having a lovely Wednesday! Since I'll be turning 31 the following week and I'm thankful for your presence, I decided to give EVERY attendee a free zine from my stash! Itll be at @thelitexhibit, friday 8-10 pm. if you make a purchase of $15 or more, you get a free book too! I wanna share my good fortune with you hehe. I'm gonna try to read as much as I can to give you a variety to choose from. if you're coming, don't forget to go to the link in my bio which is the fb event page. then register at the link within that page. Thanks, I'll see you soon! video descriptions: first is of me revealing the front cover of each book, one at a time. Some titles include Lovers & Other Strangers: One Picture. A Thousand Stories, Same Difference by Derek Kirk Kim, Diagram Vol. 1 edited by Ander Monson, unfinished stories finished by lily hoang, & objects of affection by Krishna Udayasankar. 2nd is a video showing the front cover of each zine, one at a time. Some titles include Koreangry, Strange Pop: Fried Head Photo Zine vol. 1 by takashi shimizu, sharpen by rich ives, a wave has hit again by margot terc, the tragic tale of buttitches by gnat m., and imaginary homework bt theo ellsworth. there also some prints, postcards, and a bookmark. third shows a red background & a whole fortune cookie. It’s a video of another drawn beige fortune cookie in the forefront being opened to reveal a fortune cookie slip that says in blue gray font: “THE LIT EXHIBIT: RITUALS P R E S E N T S Fortune Cookie Reading” And slowly appearing on the left piece of the cookie is a location marker icon and a icon which has “Temporary Storage” in a sign and beneath it the words “At Brooklyn Fire Proof”. The right cookie piece’s words also reveals saying: “FRIDAY JUNE 14 8 PM - 10 PM” beneath there are cookie crumbs with the following fortune cookie beige names appearing and scattered: “Joelle Eliza Angela Law Yuri Chris Exantus Erin Kim Momo Manalang Petra Magno Dena Igusti Amanda Levie Maria Rubio Ahnnie Emily Mun Melissa Reburiano Olivia Luisa Mardwig” in the upper right corner is a white banner that lowers and says in blue gray and then red font: “C U R A T E D B Y Eileen Ramos" (at Temporary Storage) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByoI7Knh8Jt/?igshid=jzdyy4vetzql

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She’s Gotta Have It premieres today

She’s Gotta Have It, the new TV series from Spike Lee, is out today.

Thirty years ago, Spike Lee burst onto the independent filmmaking scene with his groundbreaking look at one free-spirited artist making it happen for herself in BROOKLYN, New York. Now, Miss Nola Darling returns in a timely, topical update of the visionary writer-director’s She’s Gotta Have It.

The series stars breakout actress DeWanda Wise as Nola Darling, an uncompromising woman in her late twenties struggling to define herself and divide her time among her Friends, her Job and her Three Lovers: The Cultured Model, Greer Childs, The Protective Investment Banker, Jamie Overstreet and Da Original B-Boy Sneakerhead, Mars Blackmon. Nola is not who you want her to be. Nola is now—she is outspoken, complicated, progressive, unapologetic, passionate, sexual. Nola is the modern black woman.

Nola’s story is set entirely in Fort Greene, the vibrant BROOKLYN enclave that’s home to a thriving artists’ colony but also evolving and changing in the modern era as gentrification remakes the neighborhood. Fort Greene isn’t just a backdrop for She’s Gotta Have It—the community functions as a key supporting character unto itself.

Created and executive produced by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee through their 40 Acres banner, She’s Gotta Have It stars DeWanda Wise, Lyriq Bent, Cleo Anthony, Ilfenesh Hadera, Margot Bingham, and Anthony Ramos as Mars Blackmon, the iconic role originated by Spike Lee.

[tomorrowedblog]

She’s Gotta Have It gets new trailer, releases November 23

A new trailer has been released for She’s Gotta Have It, which is set to release November 23, 2017.

Thirty years ago, Spike Lee burst onto the independent filmmaking scene with his groundbreaking look at one free-spirited artist making it happen for herself in BROOKLYN, New York. Now, Miss Nola Darling returns in a timely, topical update of the visionary writer-director’s She’s Gotta Have It.

The series stars breakout actress DeWanda Wise as Nola Darling, an uncompromising woman in her late twenties struggling to define herself and divide her time among her Friends, her Job and her Three Lovers: The Cultured Model, Greer Childs, The Protective Investment Banker, Jamie Overstreet and Da Original B-Boy Sneakerhead, Mars Blackmon. Nola is not who you want her to be. Nola is now—she is outspoken, complicated, progressive, unapologetic, passionate, sexual. Nola is the modern black woman.

Nola’s story is set entirely in Fort Greene, the vibrant BROOKLYN enclave that’s home to a thriving artists’ colony but also evolving and changing in the modern era as gentrification remakes the neighborhood. Fort Greene isn’t just a backdrop for She’s Gotta Have It—the community functions as a key supporting character unto itself.

Created and executive produced by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee through their 40 Acres banner, She’s Gotta Have It stars DeWanda Wise, Lyriq Bent, Cleo Anthony, Ilfenesh Hadera, Margot Bingham, and Anthony Ramos as Mars Blackmon, the iconic role originated by Spike Lee.