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This day in film: The Color Purple

MochaCity.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:53:58 +0100

On December 18th, 1985, The Color Purple was released in the U.S. The movie would feature an unknown Whoopi Golderg in the starring role of Celie, an already established actor with Danny Glover as Albert/Mister, and a local news anchor named Oprah Winfrey as Sofia. Directed by Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple was originally met with [...]

Entertainment: Danny Glover Deprives Himself of Sight to Play Blind Character; Rosie Perez Says ...

MochaCity.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:53:58 +0100

Danny Glover deprives himself of sight to play blind character. Finding empty theater venues has been a practice of one actor preparing for his role in the film Blindness. Inside the theaters, Danny Glover says he wanders around in darkness to get a feel for the character he portrays. “There’s another kind of humility for [...]

Trouble The Water: A Must See

MochaCity.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:53:58 +0100

These days it seems as though Danny Glover is more activist than actor/filmmaker, but in his latest effort he gets to wear at least two of his three hats.

ROUNDUP: RACISM STALLS GLOVER FILM / THE SAARTJIE PROJECT / HIP-HOP’S BIGGEST EARNERS

MochaCity.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:53:58 +0100

Danny Glover says the reason his film about Haitian independence hero Toussaint Louverture never got off the ground is because of Hollywood’s racism. Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez gave $18 million to finance half the project and the rest was supposed to come from a distributor, but no one in Hollywood was interested. Glover told a Paris [...]

Lethal Weapon 5: Senior Citizens

MochaCity.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:53:58 +0100

It looks like Danny Glover and Mel Gibson are both game for a 5th go-around of their decades-old Lethal Weapon franchise, now that a spec script has been written by the same guy who wrote the screenplay for the first film. Of course, the script has the infamous Riggs and Murtaugh solving one final case [...]

In The News

MochaCity.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:53:58 +0100

- TERRENCE HOWARD RELEASES STATEMENT: Actor responds to Bill Cosby interview about original 'blackball' story.

- Racial issue raised in Atlantic City prosecution

- NAACP's fairness questioned on Confederate flag issue

- Commentary: What was Wendy Williams thinking?

- Danny Glover's slavery film lacked "white heroes", producers said

- Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim sued over undelivered books

- Rapper DMX denies theft charges, sings at court

- 'Extreme Home Makeover' House Threatened With Foreclosure

Searching For White Heroes

MochaCity.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:53:58 +0100

Danny Glover is having difficulty finding funding for his Toussaint Louverture biopic, because financiers are worried about the lack of white heroes… in a movie about the Haitian Revolution. Okay. ‘”Producers said ‘It’s a nice project, a great project… where are the white heroes?’” he told AFP. “I couldn’t get the money here, I couldn’t [...]