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Bob Strauss @bscritic English "End of the **** World" actress #JessicaBarden displays her versatility again in #Holler. She deftly underplays a teen in an economically blitzed Ohio town, torn between her loser family and the lure of educational escape, who gets drawn into a sketchy scrap metal scam. 3:27 PM · Jun 11, 2021·Twitter Web App

Bob Strauss @bscritic Clever, playful and appropriately gory riff on Britain's "video nasties" panic of the 1980s, #CensorMovie is not quite as psychologically disturbing as it intends to be. Still, a sharp slasher satire from director Prano Bailey-Bond and star #NiamhAlgar. 2:56 PM · Jun 11, 2021·Twitter Web App

Variety @Variety 11 Movies We’re Eager to See at This Year’s Tribeca Festival 11 Movies We’re Eager to See at This Year’s Tribeca Festival Here are 11 films that should be on every Tribeca Festival-goer's must-see list. variety.com 7:00 AM · Jun 11, 2021·TweetDeck

It was 50 years ago that Smith took Broadway by storm in Hal Prince's production of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Follies." Her auspicious stage debut earned her a Time magazine cover and the 1971-72 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical.

Variety @Variety Carrie Underwood Wins Top Prize at CMT Awards, With Co-Host Kane Brown the Only Double Winner Carrie Underwood Wins Top Prize at CMT Awards, With Co-Host Kane Brown the Only Double Winner Co-host Kane Brown was the only double winner at the CMT Music Awards, but Carrie Underwood picked up the climactic video of the year prize. variety.com 12:14 AM · Jun 10, 2021·WordPress.com

The Hollywood Reporter @THR Feinberg Forecast: Updated Emmys Projections, Now Including Acting Categories Feinberg Forecast: Updated Emmys Projections, Now Including Acting Categories In addition to the program categories first tackled last week, The Hollywood Reporter's awards columnist weighs in on the lead and supporting acting categories for dramas, comedies and limited series... hollywoodreporter.com 2:05 PM · Jun 9, 2021·SocialFlow

The Hollywood Reporter @THR MTV Returns to Barclays Center for 2021 VMAs MTV Returns to Barclays Center for 2021 VMAs MTV is returning to the Barclays Center for the 2021 VMAs, on Sept. 12, in the first post-Labor Day airing for the awards show since 2012. hollywoodreporter.com 8:08 AM · Jun 8, 2021·SocialFlow

The Hollywood Reporter @THR Cannes: France to Allow Vaccinated U.S., U.K. Visitors as Europe Reopens Borders Cannes: France to Allow Vaccinated U.S., U.K. Visitors as Europe Reopens Borders Cannes Allows Vaccinated U.S., U.K. visitors in as Europe reopens its borders to fully-vaccinated travelers. hollywoodreporter.com 4:22 AM · Jun 9, 2021·SocialFlow

Variety @Variety Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal on Reinventing the Tribeca Festival as New York Reemerges from COVID Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal on Reinventing the Tribeca Festival as New York Reemerges from COVID Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal predict the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival could be the best one ever. variety.com 7:27 PM · Jun 8, 2021·WordPress.com

AP Entertainment @APEntertainment The @CMT Awards will bestow the Equal Play Award to Linda Martell, a pioneering country performer whose 1970 album “Color Me Country” became an inspiration to later Black country artists. CMT to honor Black country music pioneer Linda Martell NEW YORK (AP) — Linda Martell, one of the pioneers for Black acts in country music and the first Black woman to perform solo at the Grand Ole Opry, will be honored at the 2021 CMT Music Awards. The... apnews.com 7:42 AM · Jun 8, 2021·SocialFlow

Bob Strauss @bscritic #Netflix's #TragicJungle starts out as a young-woman-in-peril thriller on the Colonial Belize-Mexico border, then slowly, mesmerizingly mutates into something much weirder, woke and psychosexual, a rainforest take on Yucatan's Xtabay myth by way of #TreasureoftheSierraMadre. 3:17 PM · Jun 9, 2021·Twitter Web App

Bob Strauss @bscritic Yeah, it's building omni-dimensional timelines, trying to set up rules for the #Multiverse and struggling to make #Loki sympathetic, but #Marvel's new #DisneyPlus show's heaviest lift comes from making bureaucracy entertaining. 9:15 PM · Jun 8, 2021·Twitter Web App

Bob Strauss @bscritic #TheAmusementPark, #NightoftheLivingDead auteur #GeorgeARomero's lost, 1973 short film about an elderly gent suffering the indignities of the aged at a theme park, plays crude, broad and sometimes amateurish. It's also packed with indelible, heartbreaking imagery. @Shudder now. 2:57 PM · Jun 8, 2021·Twitter Web App

Bob Strauss @bscritic Everything else I've seen in the #Conjuring-verse has left me cold, but I found #TheDevilMadeMeDoIt an enjoyable, good-looking, well-acted, actually scary and almost coherent horror entertainment. Satan must have gotten to me. 7:41 PM · Jun 5, 2021·Twitter Web App

Bob Strauss @bscritic Aw, #ClarenceWilliamsIII. Always the coolest cat in #ModSquad. Always great to see him pop up later, too, in the likes of #PurpleRain, #TwinPeaks and #TalesFromTheHood. Clarence Williams III, ‘The Mod Squad’ and ‘Purple Rain’ Star, Dies at 81 Clarence Williams III, an actor known for playing Linc Hayes on "The Mod Squad" and Prince's father in "Purple Rain," has died. He was 81. variety.com 6:03 PM · Jun 6, 2021·Twitter Web App

ABC News @ABC A little over a year after Broadway shut its doors to the public, it's finally reopening with a long lineup of everyone's favorite shows. Every Broadway show opening this year, from 'Hamilton' to 'MJ' All the shows coming back when Broadway reopens this fall, from "Chicago" to "Dear Evan Hansen." goodmorningamerica.com 2:55 AM · Jun 8, 2021·SocialFlow

The Hollywood Reporter @THR Emmys: Where Does Film End and TV Begin? Emmys: Where Does Film End and TV Begin? The yearlong pandemic blurred the already thin line between the media, with movies that were meant for theaters landing on streaming, and Marvel hopping onto the small screen. hollywoodreporter.com 4:40 PM · Jun 7, 2021·SocialFlow

Well, she WAS in "The Matrix"! No mean feat.

Clarence Williams III, the stage-trained performer who rose to fame in the late 1960s as one-third of TV's youthful "The Mod Squad," has died at the age of 81. He died Friday in Los Angeles of colon cancer. The veteran actor's career spanned more than five decades in theater, television and film. In 1965, Williams and co-star Carolan Daniels received Tony nominations for their performances in a Broadway production of playwright William Hanley's "Slow Dance on the Killing Ground. Williams was nominated for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. Daniels received her nod for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. From 1967 to 1984, Williams was married to the actress Gloria Foster, who probably is best remembered for her performances as The Oracle in the first two installments of "The Matrix" trilogy. They remained friendly after their divorce. When she died of diabetes complications at the age of 67 on September 29, 2001, it was he who announced it. In 1968, Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton and Williams starred in ABC's "The Mod Squad," one of network television's first attempts at relevancy for younger viewers. Pete Cochran (Cole), Julie Barnes (Lipton) and the magnificently Afroed Lincoln "Linc" Hayes (Williams) -- all survivors of difficult pasts -- were undercover police officers recruited by Captain Adam Greer (Tige Andrews). During the drama series' five-season run, the unit (described in promos as "One White, one Black, one blonde") infiltrated schools and youth groups, and took down adult criminals who preyed on young people. The program, whose co-producers included Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas, received a 1970 Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Dramatic Series. During Season 1 of "The Mod Squad," Foster guest starred as Janny Willis, a blind woman who receives protection from the undercover cops after she's attacked. The episode, titled "A Hint of Darkness, a Hint of Light," first aired on February 11, 1969. Foster reprised the role of Janny in the Season 2 episode "Return to Darkness, Return to Light" (original air date: March 17, 1970). In "Purple Rain," Prince's 1984 semi-autobiographical screen musical/drama, Williams played the abusive father of the rock star's character -- The Kid. Olga Karlatos appeared as The Kid's mother. "Purple Rain" was the year's 10th highest-grossing film. John Frankenheimer's gritty 1986 drama "52 Pick-Up" featured Williams as Bobby Shy, a skeevy and menacing member of a blackmail operation that threatened the security of an L.A. businessman (Roy Scheider). Also starring in the film: Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover and Kelly Preston. The movie's screenplay was adapted by Elmore Leonard from his 1974 novel. Keenen Ivory Wayans' 1988 comedy “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka,” which lampooned blaxploitation films of the '70s, co-starred Williams as the longtime Black Panther member, Kalinga. Eve Plumb, the erstwhile Jan Brady of TV's "The Brady Bunch," appeared as Kalinga' wife. In 1990, Williams was reunited briefly with Lipton on an episode of David Lynch's offbeat ABC drama series "Twin Peaks." He played FBI Agent Roger Hardy, who arrived in the Washington town for some serious discussions with Special Agent Dale Cooper (series star Kyle MacLachlan). During his visit, Hardy stopped by the Double R Diner, owned by Norma Jennings (played by Lipton, a series regular). Williams starred as Mr. Simms, the creepy mortician who tells four stories in the 1995 Afro-centric horror film "Tales From the Hood." The anthology from executive producer Spike Lee and director Randy Cundieff attained a cult following after it was released for home video consumption. In the 1997 historical drama "Hoodlum," Laurence Fishburne (pictured at right) portrayed the Harlem crime kingpin Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. Williams had the role of Bub Hewlett, the right-hand man of gangster Dutch Schultz (played by Tim Roth). Williams would later portray Johnson in the 2007 film "American Gangster," which starred Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. In the 2000s, Williams co-starred in 10 installments of The Hallmark Channel's "Mystery Woman" series of made-for-television films. He co-starred with Kellie Martin, who played the bookstore owner-turned-sleuth Samantha Kinsey. Williams appeared as Philby, the bookstore's caretaker. Vernon Reid @vurnt22 Mod Squad broke new ground. Clarence Williams III broke new ground. You can draw a direct line from Clarence Williams III to both Denzel & Idris. It’s his MF moody blood running through The Kid in Purple Rain that’s the furnace of his pain & genius. Rest In Power , Linc. 4:13 PM · Jun 6, 2021·Twitter for iPad Michael McKean @MJMcKean In 1965 my HS drama class attended a matinee of Slow Dance on the Killing Ground. Afterwards, as the bus pulled away from the Plymouth Theater, we spotted the young actor who had electrified us for 2 1/2 hours, walking down the street Clarence Williams III was terrific on the stage, and even cooler out in the world that day. It made the whole idea of being a stage actor more magical somehow. RIP. 7:24 PM · Jun 6, 2021·Twitter Web App Peyton Reed @MrPeytonReed I got to work with Clarence Williams III on my second TV movie, THE LOVE BUG, back in 1995. I had grown up watching him as Linc in THE MOD SQUAD and thought he was the epitome of cool. Turns out he was. Rest In Peace, Clarence. 5:39 PM · Jun 6, 2021·Twitter for iPhone Lenny Kravitz @LennyKravitz When I was a kid growing up in NYC Clarence Williams III was a face on TV that I identified with and that inspired me. From the Mod Squad, to Purple Rain and Sugar Hill, he always performed with dynamic energy. Rest in power, king 6:20 PM · Jun 6, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

The Hollywood Reporter @THR The Weeknd Tops Juno Awards With 5 Wins The Weeknd Tops Juno Awards With 5 Wins 'Blinding Light' singer won best artist, best songwriter best album for 'After Hours.' hollywoodreporter.com 9:50 PM · Jun 6, 2021·SocialFlow

The Hollywood Reporter @THR Michaela Coel emerged the big winner at Sunday’s #BAFTATV Awards, while ’Normal People’ star Paul Mescal won the award for leading actor BAFTA TV Awards: Winners List (Updating Live) Michaela Coel, John Boyega, Letitia Wright, Paul Mescal, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jodie Comer are among the nominees at the hybrid awards ceremony being held in London. hollywoodreporter.com 4:29 PM · Jun 6, 2021·SocialFlow

The Hollywood Reporter @THR Garth Brooks Gets Emotional During Kennedy Center Honors Tribute; Debbie Allen, Dick Van Dyke Among Other Honorees Garth Brooks Gets Emotional During Kennedy Center Honors Tribute; Debbie Allen, Dick Van Dyke Among... Shonda Rhimes, Julie Andrews, Kelly Clarkson, Gladys Knight, Bradley Cooper and other stars took part in the tributes, part of a scaled-down event due to the pandemic. hollywoodreporter.com 1:06 AM · Jun 7, 2021·SocialFlow

The Hollywood Reporter @THR Box Office: ‘Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ Beats ‘Quiet Place II’ With $24M Box Office: ‘Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ Beats ‘Quiet Place II’ With $24M 'Spirit Untamed' opened in fourth place with a muted $7 million, while 'F9' zoomed past $255 million internationally. hollywoodreporter.com 11:36 AM · Jun 6, 2021·SocialFlow

Variety @Variety After a strong opening for #AQuietPlace2, Paramount has dated a third entry in the horror franchise for March 31, 2023 Third ‘A Quiet Place’ Movie Dated for 2023 After a strong weekend opening for "A Quiet Place 2," Paramount has dated a third entry in the horror franchise for March 31, 2023. variety.com 9:00 AM · Jun 6, 2021·TweetDeck

New York Daily News @NYDailyNews Tribeca Film Festival screenings, some of which will be online as well, include: “In the Heights” “Monsters at Work” “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain” A Dave Chappelle doc about pandemic relief + aftermath @petersblendorio @Tribeca #Tribeca2021 Tribeca Film Festival 2021: Movies to watch, and how organizers brought back the in-person event The Tribeca Film Festival returns to an in-person format with a dazzling lineup. nydailynews.com 9:42 AM · Jun 5, 2021·Twitter Web App