Teddy Pendergrass Documentary – If You Don’t Know Me By Now

If you love soul music, you need to watch this documentary. It’s a pretty detailed look into the life of one of America’s greatest singers of all time. Teddy Pendergrass was one of my mother’s favorite singers of the 1970’s. I remember every Saturday, she would wake me up by running her Kirby vacuum cleaner…

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An Exclusive First Look at Audra McDonald in HBO’s Live Filming of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill

 I’m very happy to have been a part of this project. I had a great time working with Audra McDonald, Shelton Becton and George Farmer. I can’t wait to see how it turns out: HBO has filmed Audra McDonald in her Tony Award-winning performance as Billie Holiday in Lanie Robertson’s play with music Lady Day…

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Rewatching ‘The Wire’: Classic Crime Drama Seems Written For Today

The Wire. The best show I’ve ever seen… Like many devoted fans, I jumped on the release of newly reconfigured, high-definition versions of HBO’s classic cop series The Wire, binge-watching much of the show’s five seasons on the HBO GO streaming service over the holidays. And what I discovered — along with the sharper visuals…

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