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On today's episode, I talk to theater and TV director Sheldon Epps. Originally from Compton, CA, Sheldon's decades-long career in entertainment has spanned both the stage and television. He was a co-founder & the associate artistic director of the off-Broadway theater The Production Company, conceived and directed the Duke Ellington musical Play On!, which received three Tony Award nominations, and was the artistic director at the Pasadena Playhouse for two decades. For television, Sheldon has directed episodes of Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, Hannah Montana, Sister, Sister, and many, many more, and he was a producer/director for the hit UPN/CW show Girlfriends. Most recently, just this fall, Sheldon's memoir My Own Directions: A Black Man's Journey in the American Theatre was published - check it out! This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow me on Twitter.
This episode is all about friendship in all of its complexity and differences. For many of us, friends are like family. Joined by some of her girlfriends, who are all Black womxn, host Cartier begins the conversation reminiscing about the show Girlfriends, which aired on UPN/CW from 2000-8 and was recently released on Netflix. The group talks about difficulties of life during COVID-19, including keeping up with friendships. Throughout the episode, the friends reveal what their friendships look like and what is important to them. Being a Black womxn is hard, and being friends with fellow Black womxn who can relate to each other in their experiences is important, especially right now. Because nobody rides for Black womxn like Black womxn. Special thanks to the friends featured in the episode—Cassandra, Angelica, and Ashley—and those not featured here.
Today's guest on "LOVE SOMEONE with Delilah" is probably most well-known for her her starring role as Dr. Rainbow "Bow" Johnson, on the ABC comedy series, "Black-ish", now in it's 6th season! Or maybe you watched her when she hosted Lifetime's "The Dish," or when she played Joan Clayton in the UPN/CW comedy, "Girlfriends." However you came to know the work of Tracee Ellis Ross, you know she has got some wicked talent! She joins me today to talk about her new movie, and about her single, "Love Myself" from the soundtrack, We have a fantastic conversation about strength, resilience, being true to ones self, and how it is a perfect combination of our differences and that which we have in common that make this world such a beautiful place. Or as Tracee puts it, "It's not about a color BLIND world, but a color FULL world,. That's where all the humanity and the robustness of life comes from!" Join us! ~ Delilah Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
"Veronica Mars" - A long time ago we used to be friends, but I haven’t thought of you lately at all—until you got that new series at Hulu, anyway. We’re discussing the UPN/CW classic series “Veronica Mars”, featuring Kristen Bell as a teenage noir detective trying to solve her best friend’s murder with the reluctant help of her disgraced private-investigator dad. If you’ve never seen it, it’s worth a watch! We discuss season one of the show in detail (including revealing who the murderer is at the end), but don’t discuss much at all about the next two seasons and don’t touch at all on the contents of the fourth season that just premiered. Host Jason Snell with Aleen Simms, Quinn Rose and Nathan Alderman.
We conclude our trip down TV memory lane with some of our favorite shows we watched during our college/young adult years. Elyse picked the character drama Parenthood, and Scott refuses to grow up and keeps watching UPN/CW shows like Veronica Mars. We're off next week, but we'll be back in October for some scary movies! Support us on Patreon Follow us on Twitter: @doofmedia See all of our podcasts, writing, and more at doofmedia.com!
In this episode, Black Hollywood Live hosts Jessica King, Nick Perdue and Megan Thomas interview special guest Imani Hakim. Imani Hakim (born August 12, 1993) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Tonya Rock on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris as well as portraying Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas in The Gabby Douglas Story.When she was seven, Imani studied acting at Karamu House Theater in Cleveland, Ohio. She also studied at Alexander's Workshop School in Lakewood, California and at The Young Actor's Space in Burbank, California.It's been nearly a decade since the nation was introduced to Imani Hakim as Tonya Rock on "Everybody Hates Chris." She was just 11 year old when she landed the role.Hakim has since blossomed into a grown woman, and the 20-year-old thespian is taking her career to new heights as one of two actresses portraying Olympic gymnast Gabrielle Douglas in the Lifetime film "The Gabby Douglas Story," which airs Feb. 1 at 8 p.m.The Post