Lin-Manuel Miranda is the creator and star of the hip-hop Broadway hit Hamilton, which received a record-breaking 16 Tony nominations on Tuesday. Ahead of the June awards show, here are five things to know about Miranda: 1. He doesn't get a lot of sleep.Along with Hamilton, Miranda previously won a Tony for In the Heights, and was also awarded the MacArthur "genius grant." If that wasn't enough, he's now writing songs for Disney's Moana. "I don't really sleep that much," Miranda, 35, previously admitted to People about how he makes time for all his projects. 2. He cries regularly."I cry seven times a week during the show,...
- 5/3/2016
- by Mariah Haas
- PEOPLE.com
Lin-Manuel Miranda created and stars in the hip-hop Broadway hit Hamilton, which was nominated for a record 16 Tony nominations on Tuesday. Ahead of the June award show, here are five things to know about Miranda: 1. He doesn't get a lot of sleep.Along with Hamilton, Miranda previously won a Tony for In the Heights, and was also awarded the MacArthur "genius grant." If that wasn't enough, he's now writing songs for Disney's Moana. "I don't really sleep that much," Miranda, 35, previously admitted to People about how he makes time for all his projects. 2. He cries regularly."I cry seven times a week during the show,...
- 5/3/2016
- by Mariah Haas
- PEOPLE.com
1. "Arrow of God" - the film adaptation of the classic novel by the great Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe of blessed memory. "Arrow of God" is the second most highly acclaimed novel of Achebe and in fact I rate it higher than his debut novel "Things Fall Apart" that made him famous. He said he could not choose between "Arrow of God" and "Things Fall Apart," because both novels were too precious to him. The novel centers on Ezeulu, the chief priest of several Igbo villages in Colonial Nigeria, who confronts colonial powers and Christian missionaries in the 1920s. The phrase "Arrow of...
- 11/19/2015
- by Michael Chima Ekenyerengozi
- ShadowAndAct
Born November 16, 1930, Chinua Achebe would've been 85 years old today, were he still alive (he died March 21, 2013). In memory, I've been on the hunt for any film adaptations of the 5 fiction novels he wrote; and, not surprisingly, there aren't many - certainly not in recent years. But if any of you reading this knows otherwise, please do share. What I did discover is that, of his 5 novels ("Things Fall Apart," "No Longer At Ease," "Arrow Of God," "A Man of the People" and "Anthills of the Savannah), one of them ("Things Fall Apart," likely the work he's most known for), was adapted to screen as a TV mini-series in 1987,...
- 11/16/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Chinua Achebe, the acclaimed Nigerian author of "Things Fall Apart" and several other novels, has died in Boston. The New York Times reports that Achebe's agent announced the death of the man at 82, following a short illness.
Published in 1958, "Things Fall Apart" was the first major work of African anti-colonialist literature. Written when Achebe was only 28 years old, the book focuses on the cultural clash that occurred when British and Christian colonial powers met traditional Igbo culture in what later came to be Nigeria. More than 10 million copies of the book have been sold, and it has been translated into 45 languages. Students around the world still read the story of Okonkwo and his family.
Achebe wrote four more novels after his debut work: "No Longer at Ease" (1960), "Arrow of God" (1964), "A Man of the People" (1966) and "Anthills of the Savannah" (1987). He was also the author of many short stories and poems.
Published in 1958, "Things Fall Apart" was the first major work of African anti-colonialist literature. Written when Achebe was only 28 years old, the book focuses on the cultural clash that occurred when British and Christian colonial powers met traditional Igbo culture in what later came to be Nigeria. More than 10 million copies of the book have been sold, and it has been translated into 45 languages. Students around the world still read the story of Okonkwo and his family.
Achebe wrote four more novels after his debut work: "No Longer at Ease" (1960), "Arrow of God" (1964), "A Man of the People" (1966) and "Anthills of the Savannah" (1987). He was also the author of many short stories and poems.
- 3/23/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Chinua Achebe—whose debut novel, Things Fall Apart, was many people’s first (and perhaps only) introduction to African literature—has died at the age of 83. Born in Nigeria, Achebe began writing as a college student, inspired partly by his sense of the woeful inadequacy of Western authors’ depictions of Africans and African life. He was still in his twenties when, writing in English, he completed Things Fall Apart and began submitting it to London publishers, many of whom rejected it out of hand, based of the assumption there was no market for sophisticated fiction from what was still ...
- 3/22/2013
- avclub.com
Chinua Achebe, the acclaimed Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart and other literary works, has died at the age of 82. Citing the author's agent, Andrew Wylie, The Associated Press reports that Achebe died after an illness. "He was also a beloved husband, father, uncle and grandfather, whose wisdom and courage are an inspiration to all who knew him," said Wylie in a statement. Achebe, who lived in the United States for the majority of his adulthood, was a vocal proponent of bringing democracy to Nigeria. His celebrated first novel, Things Fall Apart, is set in the country
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- 3/22/2013
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
'This is our first album in which it's an actual narrative,' ?uestlove tells MTV News of December's Undun.
By Rob Markman
?uestlove
Photo: MTV News
Dating back to their 1993 debut, Organix!, the Roots have always pushed the envelope as far as hip-hop creativity goes. And on their upcoming December 6 album, fans should expect the Philadelphia band to take things a few steps further.
"We are working on our 13th album; it is titled Undun," ?uestlove told MTV News when we caught up with him last month at Jay-z's fundraising event in New York City. "It is our first concept album. Mostly, our albums are thematic, but this is our first album in which it's an actual narrative, so sort of like a movie without visuals; kind of like a storybook record."
On Do You Want More?!!!??!, the Roots set a precedent for live bands in rap. Their...
By Rob Markman
?uestlove
Photo: MTV News
Dating back to their 1993 debut, Organix!, the Roots have always pushed the envelope as far as hip-hop creativity goes. And on their upcoming December 6 album, fans should expect the Philadelphia band to take things a few steps further.
"We are working on our 13th album; it is titled Undun," ?uestlove told MTV News when we caught up with him last month at Jay-z's fundraising event in New York City. "It is our first concept album. Mostly, our albums are thematic, but this is our first album in which it's an actual narrative, so sort of like a movie without visuals; kind of like a storybook record."
On Do You Want More?!!!??!, the Roots set a precedent for live bands in rap. Their...
- 10/10/2011
- MTV Music News
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It's time to watch 'Things Fall Apart,' but forget Chinua Achebe. With the help of Brian Miller, 50 Cent wrote himself a sports drama that lets him bite into dramatic fare and enter the illustrious circle of actors who go skeletal for their craft. As we showed you last May, the firmly pectoraled rapper lost a whole lotta weight to play Deon, a college football star stricken with a cancerous tumor in his chest.
Now we've got a trailer to, well, experience, because just as Vulture rightly pondered, "The video quality and the musical transitions lead us to believe this was edited in somebody's basement around 2Am last night."
Continue Reading...
It's time to watch 'Things Fall Apart,' but forget Chinua Achebe. With the help of Brian Miller, 50 Cent wrote himself a sports drama that lets him bite into dramatic fare and enter the illustrious circle of actors who go skeletal for their craft. As we showed you last May, the firmly pectoraled rapper lost a whole lotta weight to play Deon, a college football star stricken with a cancerous tumor in his chest.
Now we've got a trailer to, well, experience, because just as Vulture rightly pondered, "The video quality and the musical transitions lead us to believe this was edited in somebody's basement around 2Am last night."
Continue Reading...
- 3/9/2011
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Moviefone
Filed under: Trailers and Clips, Movie News, Video, Cinematical
It's time to watch 'Things Fall Apart,' but forget Chinua Achebe. With the help of Brian Miller, 50 Cent wrote himself a sports drama that lets him bite into dramatic fare and enter the illustrious circle of actors who go skeletal for their craft. As we showed you last May, the firmly pectoraled rapper lost a whole lotta weight to play Deon, a college football star stricken with a cancerous tumor in his chest.
Now we've got a trailer to, well, experience, because just as Vulture rightly pondered, "The video quality and the musical transitions lead us to believe this was edited in somebody's basement around 2Am last night."
Continue Reading...
It's time to watch 'Things Fall Apart,' but forget Chinua Achebe. With the help of Brian Miller, 50 Cent wrote himself a sports drama that lets him bite into dramatic fare and enter the illustrious circle of actors who go skeletal for their craft. As we showed you last May, the firmly pectoraled rapper lost a whole lotta weight to play Deon, a college football star stricken with a cancerous tumor in his chest.
Now we've got a trailer to, well, experience, because just as Vulture rightly pondered, "The video quality and the musical transitions lead us to believe this was edited in somebody's basement around 2Am last night."
Continue Reading...
- 3/9/2011
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
There's just something about Bill Moyers I like. It might be that his prolific journalism covers a variety of subjects, many of which are of great interest to me. It might also be because his greatest hits - his multi-part specials that aired originally on PBS - are now finding their way home to DVD, thanks to the Athena imprint of Acorn Media. February 15 saw the release of two of his sets with Acorn. One of those sets, A World of Ideas - Writers, was particularly engrossing to me, as it should have been to any fan of storytelling (and I'm assuming most of you are fans of good storytelling). For us, this set had some pretty exciting stuff.
Any genre fan should know of Isaac Asimov. Asimov's Foundation series is a landmark work of sci-fi, but unfortunately most people nowadays know him because he penned the work that loosely inspired the film I,...
Any genre fan should know of Isaac Asimov. Asimov's Foundation series is a landmark work of sci-fi, but unfortunately most people nowadays know him because he penned the work that loosely inspired the film I,...
- 2/28/2011
- by Sam McPherson
- TVovermind.com
You'd think, with the way that Hollywood takes every fucking thing with a whiff of success attached to it and turns it into a movie (board games, children's toys, cartoons, bubble gum mascots) that they'd have already pillaged every successful book in the history of mankind. And you would be mostly right. In fact, in coming up with the list below, I discovered that all but 13 novels that have sold over 10 million copies have been turned into a feature motion picture at some point. Can you believe that? All but 13. And of those 13, several of them are practically unadaptable (though, Hollywood tends to find ways -- see the upcoming Monopoly or Battleship movies), or are way too short or way too long for a feature length film (again, not that it's stopped Hollywood in the past -- see Where the Wild Things Are and the Dr. Seuss movies). In fact,...
- 4/14/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
As previously mentioned on this blog, Hunger director Steve McQueen is currently working on bringing the life of Afro-beat king Fela Kuti to the big screen. The screenplay, which will be based on Michael Veal’s biography Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon, is being written by both McQueen and British-Nigerian novelist and playwright, Biyi Bandele.
We all know who Steve McQueen is at this point. But who is Biyi Bandele.
Here’s a brief bio:
Biyi Bandele was born in Nigeria in 1967, and now lives in London, where he’s been since 1990. He’s written several plays, and worked with the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as writing radio drama and screenplays for television. He was a Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge from 2000-2002, and Royal Literary Fund Resident Playwright at Bush Theatre from 2002-2003.
His plays...
We all know who Steve McQueen is at this point. But who is Biyi Bandele.
Here’s a brief bio:
Biyi Bandele was born in Nigeria in 1967, and now lives in London, where he’s been since 1990. He’s written several plays, and worked with the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as writing radio drama and screenplays for television. He was a Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge from 2000-2002, and Royal Literary Fund Resident Playwright at Bush Theatre from 2002-2003.
His plays...
- 2/25/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
50 Cent's acting career thus far has largely relied on roles that closely mirror his actual life-- a thinly veiled self-portrait in Get Rich or Die Tryin', a thuggish drug dealer in the Sundance laugh-out-loud melodrama Twelve, and, er, a thuggish drug dealer in Righteous Kill. I'm not saying 50 isn't capable of more-- anyone see him as a soldier in Home of the Brave-- but maybe he just hasn't gotten the right role yet. Well, how about playing a running back college senior? At age 34? Yeah, that sounds like a pretty good stretch. Variety reports that 50 Cent will star for director Mario Van Peebles in Things Fall Apart, which is not an adaptation of the Chinua Achebe book, but a story about a football player "who faces a personal tragedy as well as his own mortality while in his senior year in college." Production begins in May in Michigan. I...
- 2/22/2010
- cinemablend.com
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