ABC has promoted When We Rise as a mini-series from the very beginning so there seems to be no chance that it will be cancelled or renewed for a second season. But, could strong ratings lead the network to produce similar programming or other mini-series? Stay tuned.From Dustin Lance Black, the When We Rise TV show chronicles the leaders who agitated for Lgbt rights in the Us Civil Rights movement. The mini-series follows Lgbt activist Cleve Jones (Guy Pearce), women's right leader Roma Guy (Mary-Louise Parker), her wife and social justice activist Diane (Rachel Griffiths), African-American community organizer Ken Jones (Michael K. Williams), and transgender activist Cecilia Chung (Ivory Aquino). The cast also includes Austin McKenzie, Emily Skeggs, Jonathan Majors, Fiona Dourif, Henry Czerny, Whoopi Goldberg, Arliss Howard, Sam Jaeger, T.R. Knight, Mary McCormack, Kevin McHale, Rosie O'Donnell, Denis O'Hare, Pauley Perrette, David Hyde Pierce, Richard...
- 2/28/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Network: ABCEpisodes: Eight (hour)Seasons: OneTV show dates: February 27, 2018 — March 3, 2017Series status: Ending Performers include: Guy Pearce, Mary-Louise Parker, Rachel Griffiths, Michael K. Williams, Ivory Aquino, Austin McKenzie, Emily Skeggs, Jonathan Majors, Fiona Dourif, Henry Czerny, Whoopi Goldberg, Arliss Howard, Sam Jaeger, T.R. Knight, Mary McCormack, Kevin McHale, Rosie O'Donnell, Denis O'Hare, Pauley Perrette, David Hyde Pierce, Richard Schiff, Phylicia Rashad, Rob Reiner, and William Sadler.TV show description:From Dustin Lance Black, the When We Rise TV show chronicles the leaders who agitated for Lgbt rights in the Us Civil Rights movement. The mini-series follows Lgbt activist Cleve Jones, women's right leader Roma Guy, her wife and social justice activist Diane, African-American community organizer Ken Jones, and transgender...
- 2/28/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg are just two of numerous notable actors who are advocating for Lgbtq rights in the upcoming miniseries When We Rise.
Created and executive produced by Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black, the eight-hour TV event chronicles the real-life personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of Lgbtq activists who helped pioneer equality for their community decades ago in the U.S.
In an emotional People exclusive featurette, Guy Pearce (Cleve Jones), Rachel Griffiths (Diane) and Ivory Aquino (Cecilia Chung) join O’Donnell, Goldberg and more in portraying the fight for Lgbtq rights.
“None of these...
Created and executive produced by Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black, the eight-hour TV event chronicles the real-life personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of Lgbtq activists who helped pioneer equality for their community decades ago in the U.S.
In an emotional People exclusive featurette, Guy Pearce (Cleve Jones), Rachel Griffiths (Diane) and Ivory Aquino (Cecilia Chung) join O’Donnell, Goldberg and more in portraying the fight for Lgbtq rights.
“None of these...
- 2/24/2017
- by Patrick Gomez and Natalie Stone
- PEOPLE.com
“I’ve always been proud of who I am -- I came out to my family when I was 17 -- but the movie, that process did awaken something in me,” Charlie Carver, who came out publicly last January, tells Et about making I Am Michael, a new biopic about Michael Glatze, a prominent gay activist who renounced his homosexuality and turned to religion. Directed by Justin Kelly (King Cobra) and based on Benoit Denizet-Lewis' New York Times Magazine article “My Ex-Gay Friend,” the new film sees Carver portraying Tyler, a college student involved in a throuple with Michael (James Franco) and Bennett (Zachary Quinto).
One-half of the Carver twins -- his identical twin brother being Max -- the two are most famous for their joint roles on Desperate Housewives, Teen Wolf and most recently, season one of HBO’s The Leftovers. “I’ve always considered myself very lucky to work with my brother,” Carver says, explaining...
One-half of the Carver twins -- his identical twin brother being Max -- the two are most famous for their joint roles on Desperate Housewives, Teen Wolf and most recently, season one of HBO’s The Leftovers. “I’ve always considered myself very lucky to work with my brother,” Carver says, explaining...
- 1/27/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
New York Film Festival director/Selection Committee chair Ken Jones introduced the main slate of films at the 54th edition of Gotham’s signature film festival, adding films from directors that include Maren Ade, Pedro Almodovar, Olivier Assayas, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Hong Sangsoo, Jim Jarmusch, Pablo Larrain, Ken Loach, and Kenneth Lonergan to the tastemaker slate. These go along with previously announced opening film, the Ava DuVernay-directed docu The 13th, the…...
- 8/9/2016
- Deadline
Michael K. Williams Joins Whoopi Goldberg + Others in ABC's Lgbt Rights Event Series, 'When We Rise'
Michael K. Williams and Ivory Aquino join the cast of ABC's event limited series "When We Rise." Williams portrays African American community organizer Ken Jones, and Aquino plays the role of transgender activist Cecilia Chung. "When We Rise" chronicles the real-life personal and political struggles, setbacks and triumphs of a diverse family of Lgbt men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today. Joining the cast in part one (of this seven-part series) as special guest stars are Whoopi Goldberg as Pat Norman, the first openly gay...
- 4/27/2016
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Omar comin’ to ABC.
The Wire alum Michael Kenneth Williams has been cast in When We Rise, the Alphabet Net’s forthcoming limited series about the gay rights movement, TVLine has learned.
Related2016 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble?
Created and written by Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black, the seven-part mini chronicles the real-life personal and political struggles of a diverse family of Lgbt men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. civil rights movement. Williams will play African-American community organizer Ken Jones, and...
The Wire alum Michael Kenneth Williams has been cast in When We Rise, the Alphabet Net’s forthcoming limited series about the gay rights movement, TVLine has learned.
Related2016 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble?
Created and written by Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black, the seven-part mini chronicles the real-life personal and political struggles of a diverse family of Lgbt men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. civil rights movement. Williams will play African-American community organizer Ken Jones, and...
- 4/26/2016
- TVLine.com
ABC Studios announces Rachel Griffiths, Mary-Louise Parker, and Guy Pearce are set to star in the limited When We Rise TV series, from writer Dustin Lance Black. Pearce will play Lgbt activist Cleve Jones. Mary-Louise Parker has been cast as women's rights leader Roma Guy. Rachel Griffiths is set as her wife, social justice activist Diane.
They are joined by Austin McKenzie as young Cleve Jones, Emily Skeggs as young Roma Guy, Jonathan Majors as young Ken Jones, and Fiona Dourif as young Diane. The mature versions of African American community organizer Ken Jones and transgender activist Cecelia Chung are among those roles yet to be cast.
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They are joined by Austin McKenzie as young Cleve Jones, Emily Skeggs as young Roma Guy, Jonathan Majors as young Ken Jones, and Fiona Dourif as young Diane. The mature versions of African American community organizer Ken Jones and transgender activist Cecelia Chung are among those roles yet to be cast.
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- 3/22/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Laurence here. Sea of Trees; remember that? 2015 wasn't really Gus Van Sant's year, but it seems like he's looking for redeption by going back to his roots. Reuniting with Milk writer, professional Sam Smith-brutaliser and Tom Daley-owner Dustin Lance Black, Van Sant will direct the first episode of ABC miniseries We Will Rise, which is set to follow a diverse group of activists involved in the Lgbt+ rights movements.
Other details are scarce but judging by the characters involved, it seems set to centre around HIV/AIDS activism and a particular focus on lesbian activists, so often underrepresented in queer rights narratives, in San Francisco during the early years of the movement there. Guy Pearce has been cast as Cleve Jones, who was played by Emile Hirsch in Milk. And thus far, the cast is rounded out by Carrie Preston as Sally Miller Gearheart, Mary-Louise Parker as women's rights leader Roma Guy,...
Other details are scarce but judging by the characters involved, it seems set to centre around HIV/AIDS activism and a particular focus on lesbian activists, so often underrepresented in queer rights narratives, in San Francisco during the early years of the movement there. Guy Pearce has been cast as Cleve Jones, who was played by Emile Hirsch in Milk. And thus far, the cast is rounded out by Carrie Preston as Sally Miller Gearheart, Mary-Louise Parker as women's rights leader Roma Guy,...
- 3/22/2016
- by Laurence Barber
- FilmExperience
“He Said/She Said—Reflections On Love, Unreliable Memories, And The Atomic Bomb”
By Raymond Benson
Director Alain Resnais achieved worldwide acclaim with his documentary short, Night and Fog (1955), which revealed to the world the true horrors of what went on in the Nazi concentration camps. For his first feature film, Resnais turned to fiction; and yet, he maintained a somewhat documentary approach in showing the world the true horrors of what occurred in Hiroshima, Japan when the first atomic bomb was dropped. Beyond that, Hiroshima mon amour (“Hiroshima, My Love”) is an art film that not only signaled the beginning of the French New Wave (although many film historians do not count it as an example of that movement), it also established Resnais’ singular, enigmatic and ambiguous style as an auteur. The director would go on to make even more thematically-mysterious pictures (namely Last Year at Marienbad) and become...
By Raymond Benson
Director Alain Resnais achieved worldwide acclaim with his documentary short, Night and Fog (1955), which revealed to the world the true horrors of what went on in the Nazi concentration camps. For his first feature film, Resnais turned to fiction; and yet, he maintained a somewhat documentary approach in showing the world the true horrors of what occurred in Hiroshima, Japan when the first atomic bomb was dropped. Beyond that, Hiroshima mon amour (“Hiroshima, My Love”) is an art film that not only signaled the beginning of the French New Wave (although many film historians do not count it as an example of that movement), it also established Resnais’ singular, enigmatic and ambiguous style as an auteur. The director would go on to make even more thematically-mysterious pictures (namely Last Year at Marienbad) and become...
- 6/30/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The New York Film Festival (Sept. 27-Oct.13) is going on now. Los Angeles' own Rose Kuo (formerly director of the AFI FIlm Festival) has notched it up this year as our local newspaper L.A. Times has pointed out to us in perhaps a somewhat condescending way. Nyff was never a "quaint afterthought", but it was not what the Lincoln Center Film Society offered the trade with new offerings of films you can see in its spring festival New Directors/ New Directions. But this year, it is on the trade's map of top fall film festivals for the first time since 1984 when Blood Simple of the Coen Brothers made the trade realize its great value.
Covering for SydneysBuzz in New York is Sharon Abella, an occasional writer for SydneysBuzz. Editor-in-chief of One World Cinema , an internationally-minded website about film, music and travel, Sharon Abella holds multiple degrees in the sciences, and she makes the point that this site would not be possible without the help of God, family, friends, and her life partner, Jon Kilik. We are happy to be able to post her articles on SydneysBuzz.
Read Sharon's Review for Captain Phillips Below:
The festival, which runs from September 27- October 13, 2013 is jam packed with incredible films including: Inside Llewyn Davis, Blue is the Warmest Color, Her, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Nebraska, About Time, All is Lost, American Promise, Jimmy P : Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, and many more.
Ken Jones, the new director of programming, succeeding Richard Pena, introduced the director of Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (United 93, Bloody Sunday). Paul shared with the audience how he and his 10 year old daughter took a walk in Central Park and he explained it’s been 40 years since he began his filmmaking career with a super 8 camera he found in his art room in secondary school. How he dreamed of becoming a director, showcasing a film at the Nyff.
Although Somali piracy has threatened international shipping since the beginning of Somalia’s ongoing Civil War which began in 1991, when a coalition of clan-based armed opposition groups overthrew the long standing military government, the majority of piracy cases have mostly occurred in the 2000′s, from 2005-2012.
I could write more about Somalia’s history, however, I would have to type the name of different factions and militant groups responsible for the mall shootings in Kenya, and I don’t want to take the chance.
In 2009 alone, over 70 ships had been hijacked by pirates in the waters off the coast of Somalia (the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden), one of which being the cargo ship the “Maersk Alabama.” On April 8-April 12, four Somali pirates seized the ship loaded with 17,000 metric tons of cargo, bound for Mombasa, Kenya, 240 nautical miles off Southeast of the Somali port city of Eyl, with a crew of 20 from “The United States Merchant Marines” were on board. Most of the occurrences are foiled, others end peacefully once the ransom has been received, and others have fatalities.
The United States Merchant Marine (also known as Usmma or Kings Point) is one of the five United States service academies. It is charged with training officers for the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the military, or the transportation industry.
Midshipmen (as students at the Academy are called) are trained in marine engineering, navigation, ship’s administration, maritime law, personnel management, international law, customs, and many other subjects important to the task of running a large ship.
The Captain of the “Maersk Alabama,” Captain Richard Phillips was born in Winchester, Massachusetts and graduated from Winchester High School in 1973. Phillips enrolled at the University of Massachusetts and planned to study international law, but later transferred to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, where he graduated in 1979. During his schooling, Phillips worked as a cab driver in Boston. Phillips married Andrea Coggio, a nurse, in 1987, and had two children, Daniel and Mariah.
On March 28, 2009, he set off from his home in Underhill, Vt to the waters off the coast of Oman and Somalia to unload cargo containers. Knowing he was in dangerous pirate territory, he ordered for the tightening up of security and for the cages to be locked, even while in port. At the same time, four pirates set out from Eyl, Somalia in 2 skiffs, with a mission to “get a big ship, so they can get paid.” When the Maersk noticed the skiffs on their radar, they went on lock down and prepared the fire hoses and necessary procedures, however, the ruthless pirates managed to place and climb a ladder on board, screaming and demanding money. “$30,000 is nothing, we want millions!” “Irish, don’t move or I will —- you.” “Irish, don’t worry, everything going to be alright.”
This Hollywood psychological thriller, released by Sony Pictures, will have you sitting on the edge of your seat with your heart pounding, and if you like Tom Hanks, as much as I do, crying.
Must See!
Covering for SydneysBuzz in New York is Sharon Abella, an occasional writer for SydneysBuzz. Editor-in-chief of One World Cinema , an internationally-minded website about film, music and travel, Sharon Abella holds multiple degrees in the sciences, and she makes the point that this site would not be possible without the help of God, family, friends, and her life partner, Jon Kilik. We are happy to be able to post her articles on SydneysBuzz.
Read Sharon's Review for Captain Phillips Below:
The festival, which runs from September 27- October 13, 2013 is jam packed with incredible films including: Inside Llewyn Davis, Blue is the Warmest Color, Her, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Nebraska, About Time, All is Lost, American Promise, Jimmy P : Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, and many more.
Ken Jones, the new director of programming, succeeding Richard Pena, introduced the director of Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass (United 93, Bloody Sunday). Paul shared with the audience how he and his 10 year old daughter took a walk in Central Park and he explained it’s been 40 years since he began his filmmaking career with a super 8 camera he found in his art room in secondary school. How he dreamed of becoming a director, showcasing a film at the Nyff.
Although Somali piracy has threatened international shipping since the beginning of Somalia’s ongoing Civil War which began in 1991, when a coalition of clan-based armed opposition groups overthrew the long standing military government, the majority of piracy cases have mostly occurred in the 2000′s, from 2005-2012.
I could write more about Somalia’s history, however, I would have to type the name of different factions and militant groups responsible for the mall shootings in Kenya, and I don’t want to take the chance.
In 2009 alone, over 70 ships had been hijacked by pirates in the waters off the coast of Somalia (the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden), one of which being the cargo ship the “Maersk Alabama.” On April 8-April 12, four Somali pirates seized the ship loaded with 17,000 metric tons of cargo, bound for Mombasa, Kenya, 240 nautical miles off Southeast of the Somali port city of Eyl, with a crew of 20 from “The United States Merchant Marines” were on board. Most of the occurrences are foiled, others end peacefully once the ransom has been received, and others have fatalities.
The United States Merchant Marine (also known as Usmma or Kings Point) is one of the five United States service academies. It is charged with training officers for the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the military, or the transportation industry.
Midshipmen (as students at the Academy are called) are trained in marine engineering, navigation, ship’s administration, maritime law, personnel management, international law, customs, and many other subjects important to the task of running a large ship.
The Captain of the “Maersk Alabama,” Captain Richard Phillips was born in Winchester, Massachusetts and graduated from Winchester High School in 1973. Phillips enrolled at the University of Massachusetts and planned to study international law, but later transferred to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, where he graduated in 1979. During his schooling, Phillips worked as a cab driver in Boston. Phillips married Andrea Coggio, a nurse, in 1987, and had two children, Daniel and Mariah.
On March 28, 2009, he set off from his home in Underhill, Vt to the waters off the coast of Oman and Somalia to unload cargo containers. Knowing he was in dangerous pirate territory, he ordered for the tightening up of security and for the cages to be locked, even while in port. At the same time, four pirates set out from Eyl, Somalia in 2 skiffs, with a mission to “get a big ship, so they can get paid.” When the Maersk noticed the skiffs on their radar, they went on lock down and prepared the fire hoses and necessary procedures, however, the ruthless pirates managed to place and climb a ladder on board, screaming and demanding money. “$30,000 is nothing, we want millions!” “Irish, don’t move or I will —- you.” “Irish, don’t worry, everything going to be alright.”
This Hollywood psychological thriller, released by Sony Pictures, will have you sitting on the edge of your seat with your heart pounding, and if you like Tom Hanks, as much as I do, crying.
Must See!
- 9/30/2013
- by Sharon Abella
- Sydney's Buzz
By Samuel Negin
Kenneth Jones of Playbill.com has announced that Rebecca, a new musical based on the 1938 Daphne DuMaurier novel and its 1940 film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock, will appear at the Broadhurst Theatre this fall. The production had been announced and highly anticipated for this season, but fell through when it lost one of its major investors.
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Kenneth Jones of Playbill.com has announced that Rebecca, a new musical based on the 1938 Daphne DuMaurier novel and its 1940 film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock, will appear at the Broadhurst Theatre this fall. The production had been announced and highly anticipated for this season, but fell through when it lost one of its major investors.
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- 3/15/2012
- by Scott Feinberg
- Scott Feinberg
There's a lot of drama surrounding the Tony Award nominations, which will be unveiled Tuesday. Take, for example, the battle over best musical. The pundits cited below are split over eight contenders to take those four category slots. "American Idiot" is the favorite to win, but an upset is possible. The biggest drama of all is over best drama — there's no clear front-runner. We've recruited predix from a team of savvy prognosticators: Melissa Bernardo (Entertainment Weekly), Martin Denton (NYTheatre), Thom Geier (Entertainment Weekly), Andy Humm (Gay City News, Gay USA), Kenneth Jones (Playbill.com), Brian Lipton (Theater Mania), Patrick Pacheco (L.A. Times, NY1), Paul Sheehan (TheEnvelope.com), David Sheward (Back Stage), Matt Windman (amNY) and me....
- 5/4/2010
- by tomoneil
- Gold Derby
The following is a list of accredited, degree-granting acting programs at colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. It includes schools that grant either a degree in acting or a degree in another major that has an acting component or concentration. In general, B.A.and M.A.programs are more academic in nature (though they may offer a performance component or concentration),while Bfa and Mfa programs focus on training professional performers.An A.A.is a two-year junior-college degree.The list also includes nondegree acting programs that have a structured curriculum.THEATERUndergraduateALABAMAAuburn UniversityDepartment of Theater, 211 Telfair B. Peet Theatre, Auburn, Al, 36849-5422. Dan Larocque, chair, theatre@auburn.edu; http://media.cla.auburn.edu/theatre; (334) 844-4748; B.A. in theater, Bfa in musical theater, performance, design/tech, and management. Auburn University, MontgomeryDepartment of Communication and Dramatic Arts, P.O. Box 244023, Rm 223 Liberal Arts, Montgomery, Al,...
- 3/18/2010
- backstage.com
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