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The Gabrielle Union Chronicles
Image via Wikipedia My first couple interviews with Gabrielle Union were by phone. She was smart, funny, gracious, and generous with her time. My last couple interviews have been in person, and I...
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Gail Levin Takes on American Master James Dean
Image via Wikipedia My friend Gail Levin is a talented documentarian whose award-winning work covers many subjects, although she has a particular knack for portraying artists and creatives. Many of...
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Forever Marilyn: Gail Levin’s New Film Frames the Monroe Doctrine
Image via Wikipedia Marilyn Monroe has been the subject of countless articles, books, and films, and filmmaker Gail Levin, like so many other artists, has long been fascinated by the pop culture...
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A Filming We Will Go: Gail Levin Follows Her Passion
Another of my articles about documentary filmmaker Gail Levin, this time taking more of an overview of her career. If you’re a PBS television viewer then chances are you’ve seen at least one of her...
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Exposed: Gail Levin and Steve Brodner Prick the Body Politic
Image via Wikipedia This is one of several stories I’ve written about documentary filmmaker Gail Levin, and I’m quite sure it will not be the last. As the piece infers she has a facile quality that...
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Bill Maher Gets Real
Image via Wikipedia If you are like me and you like your issues-oriented television with a bit of an edge to it, then we likely agree see eye-to-eye that Bill Maher is a healthy antidote to the...
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Novel’s Mother-Daughter Thing Makes it to the Screen
Cover of Orange Mint and Honey: A Novel Add Carleen Brice to the very long list of native Nebraskans who have found success as authors. She plied her craft for years as an editor and journalist...
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Homecoming is Always Sweet for Dick Cavett, the Entertainment Legend Whose...
Image by nick step via Flickr In his new book, Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets, irrepressible Dick Cavett reminds us that though he hasn’t hosted a talk show in a...
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Canceled FX Boxing Show, ‘Lights Out,’ May Still Springboard Omahan Holt...
As noted here before, storytellers are drawn to boxing for the rich drama and conflict inherent in the sport. So when I learned that Holt McCallany, star of the new FX series, Lights Out, spent a...
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Anthony Chisholm is in the House at the John Beasley Theater in Omaha
For a six-seven year period I devoted much time and energy to reporting on Omaha native John Beasley, a respected film, television, and stage actor and the director of his own namesake theater in his...
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Veteran Omaha TV Meteorologist Jim Flowers Weathers the Storm
Jim Flowers may not be the boon to KMTV‘s ratings the station hopes for as it tries to climb out of last place among local network affiliates, but there’s no question he brings a recognizable name and...
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Nebraska Coast Connection: Networking group ties Nebraskans in Hollywood
Upon discovering there’s a networking group for Nebraskans in Hollywood called the Nebraska Coast Connection it’s not surprising for someone to ask, There are Nebraskans in Hollywood? Yes, and a lot...
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Gabrielle Union having it all between her own series, new film, producing,...
Native Nebraskans’ own many Hollywood-made-good stories. One of the best belongs to Gabrielle Union, who sort of fell into acting by way of modeling and hasn’t looked back since in building a...
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Paul Williams: Alive and Well, Sober and Serene, Making Memorable Music Again...
I didn’t expect to write a nearly 5,000-word story about Paul Williams, the songwriter who seemingly scored a good chunk of the 1970s. But his story resonated with me. First of all, there’s the fact...
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Lew Hunter’s small town Nebraska boy made good in Hollywood story is a doozy
Of all the Hollywood greats Nebraska has produced, and there are far more than you think, Lew Hunter may boast the most impressive career behind the camera outside of Darryl Zanuck from Tinsletown’s...
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John Beasley, Living His Dream
In the pantheon of Nebraska born and bred actors to have made it in Hollywood and/or on Broadway, and there have been more than you think, none have really ever kept much of a close relationship with...
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Stephanie Kurtzuba: From Bowling Alley, to Broadway and Back
So, everything you need to know about stage and screen actress Stephanie Kurtzuba from Omaha is summed up in the Bill Sitzmann photo of her below and in her scenes in the movies “The Wolf of Wall...
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Gabrielle Union: A force in front of and away from the camera
On a per capita basis, Nebraska has been sending oodles of talent to Hollywood from the start of the industry through today. Then and now that talent has been variously expressed in front of the camera...
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Nebraska’s own Lynn Stalmaster gets long overdue Oscar
Nebraska’s own Lynn Stalmaster gets long overdue Oscar ©by Leo Adam Biga Author of Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film If you’re like most Nebraskans who watched the Academy Awards last night,...
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