Lupita Nyong’o Brings Her Beauty To “Loving” Premiere” New York’s Landmark Sunshine Theater was graced with loads of beauty and talent thanks to the Wednesday night premiere of “Loving” which stars Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as real-life couple Richard and Mildred Loving who made history when they took their case against Virginia’s anti-miscegenation laws all the way to the Supreme Court. The couple’s daughter Peggy Loving Fortune was even in the building for the film’s NYC debut! Lupita Nyong’o was also in attendance , looking stunning in a long floral number. Check out more photos from the event below: WENN/SplashNews
OK, so I’m guessing this probably isn’t what you perverts were hoping for when you saw that headline, but until New York approves my landmark law suit to let me install cameras in Taylor Swift ‘s bedroom, this is all we’re getting for now: my favorite socialite models/BFFs Kendall Jenner and Cara Delevingne at the Taylor Swift concert. Although I thought us bloggers were the only one allowed to go out in public in pajamas . Guess not. Unless Cara’s planning a career change. Photos: PacificCoastNews
Twenty years ago, OutKast released their landmark debut album and ushered in a new sound for Hip-Hop with Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. Arguably one of the greatest Hip-Hop group’s of all time, OutKast – who hail from the East Point section of Atlanta, GA – audaciously kicked in the door for Southern rap… Continue
Life still very good for legendary rapper Nas. After celebrating the 20th anniversary of his landmark debut album “Illmatic,” it was announced Nas would be…
Before there was Anna Wintour, The Devil Wears Prada – and even ahead of the days when they put the ‘ super ‘ before the ‘ model ‘ – Diana Vreeland reigned as top fashion maven in the U.S. Naturally, the woman who “discovered” Lauren Bacall, launched Twiggy, advised Jackie O., partied with Mick Jagger and once said, “”The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb,” was ripe for a documentary. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel heads to theaters later next month, but distributor Samuel Goldwyn gives a snapshot of Vreeland in the feature’s new trailer below. “You can see and feel the approaching revolution in clothes,” Diana Vreeland says in the trailer. Footage follows with praise and flashy images from high-style celebs and designers she influenced. The trailer also sneaks great scenes of her taking in New York night-life with a great shot of her taking a puff from a ciggy while chatting up Andy Warhol. “I wanted to get where the action was,” she said with a devilish smile. Journalist Bob Colacello recalls a great Vreeland quote: “You’re not supposed to give people what they want, you’re supposed to give them what they don’t know that they want yet.” The trailer also includes snappy tidbits from fashion designers Calvin Klein, Anna Sui, Diane von Furstenberg and a great little outburst from Manolo Blahnik. Synopsis: Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel is an intimate portrait and a vibrant celebration of one of the most influential women of the 20th century, an enduring icon whose influence changed the face of fashion, beauty, art, publishing and culture forever. During her fifty year reign as the “Empress of Fashion,” she launched Twiggy, advised Jackie O and coined some of fashion’s most eloquent proverbs such as “the bikini is the biggest thing since the atom bomb.” She was the fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar where she worked for 25 years before becoming editor in chief of Vogue followed by a remarkable stint at the Met’s Costume Institute where she helped popularize its historical collections. The film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, is directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland. Watch the trailer on YouTube .
Barack Obama occupies the same pantheon as late “Superfreak” singer Rick James, according to Chris Rock. In the Julie Delpy-directed 2 Days in New York , Rock plays a Village Voice writer and radio-show host who occasionally carries on one-sided conversations with a life-size cut-out of the president, and at the Cinema Society and MCM-hosted screening of the film in New York on Wednesday, the comic told Movieline pal Grace Randolph why the cardboard Commander in Chief got the nod. “He’s the first black president. You can’t really top him right now,” Rock told Randolph at the Landmark Sunshine Theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, adding “And it’s hard to find a cardboard cut-out of Rick James.” Randolph also spoke to Delpy and other cast members of the movie, as well as the Rev. Al Sharpton. Check out the video below. Watch It on YouTube. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
The fight to end segregation was a three-pronged attack. The beloved Dr. Martin Luther King Dr. evoked sympathy from the nation, the militant Malcolm X evoked fear, and Thurgood Marshall evoked the law. While King and X gave blacks the courage to stand up to segregation, it was Marshall who fought for these brave people in court. Through a systematic plan of legal attack, Marshall and the NAACP legal defense fund dismantled a system that had shackled blacks since slavery. Before Marshall won his landmark cases in the Supreme Court, he got a little pay-back as a young attorney in Maryland. In 1936, Marshall won a major civil rights case that’s almost forgotten. The case, Murray v. Pearson forced the University of Maryland to accept its first African-American student. It was a sweet victory for Marshall who was denied entrance to Maryland five years later because he was black. The case caught the attention of NAACP leaders and Marshall joined the legal defense fund. As a lawyer for the NAACP, Marshall won 27 of 33 cases that argued before the Supreme Court. His success also brought international acclaim. The United Nations and the United Kingdom asked Marshall to help draft the constitutions of the emerging African nations of Ghana and what is now Tanzania. Before his subsequent nomination to the United States Supreme Court in 1967, Thurgood Marshall won 14 of the 19 cases he argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of the government. Some of his more recognized triumphs were : Chambers v. Florida , 309 U.S. 227 (1940) Marshall and his team of lawyers persuaded the Supreme Court to overturn a criminal conviction based on a coerced confession. Smith v. Allwright , 321 U.S. 649 (1944) Marshall convinced the Court to strike down a Texas practice which excluded blacks from participating in primary elections. Morgan v. Virginia , 328 U.S. 373 (1946) Marshall convinced the Court to strike down segregation on buses on routes of interstate travel). Shelley v. Kraeme r, 334 U.S. 1 (1948) Marshall convinced the Court to overturn lower court rulings in favor of restrictive covenants which prohibited land from being sold to African Americans. Sipuel v. University of Oklahoma , 332 U.S. 631 (1948) and Sweatt v. Painter , 339 U.S. 629 (1950) Marshall persuaded the Court to require universities in Oklahoma and Texas to integrate their law schools. Marshall’s greatest triumph was in the landmark cases Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), Marshall challenged the constitutionality of “separate but equal.”Marshall’s civil rights lawsuits aren’t the sum of his career. As an attorney and justice, he created new protections under law for women, children, prisoners, and the homeless. Read interviews and more information about Marshall’s career right here .
Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Major General (NS) Chan Chun Sing was on hand to witness this landmark announcement. It is the largest-ever corporate sponsorship for a running event in Singapore. The Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) has announced their continued support of the Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore (SCMS) with a S$9.75 million sponsorship deal for the event and a three-year partnership with event organiser Singapore Sports Council (SSC) till 2013. The
Take a close look, particularly where we edited the words. Do you see it? Yes, they do in fact say “McStinkyN***er and McNigSh*t where the customer’s name should be. The receipts are at the center of Mark McHenry’s lawsuit against the Landmark Steakhouse in Corona Del Mar, California. In a federal lawsuit filed last Friday, McHenry–who is African-American–alleged Landmark employees replaced his name on credit card receipts with crude racial slurs–this, despite the fact he was a regular customer at Landmark. SMH. Source
