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Blair Underwood receives blacklash for Sex and the City role:
2008-05-23 00:22:00 Here?s Blair Underwood?s response to the ?backlash? he faced from black fans after he appeared on Sex And The City:?Underwood, the first African-American actor to join the sitcom?s predominantly white cast, played Miranda Hobbs? boyfriend, Dr. Robert Leeds - a role which he claims didn?t meet the approval of some fans. But the Dirty Sexy Money star insists his female fans relented after learning he has been married to Desiree DaCosta, a black woman, for 13 years.He says, ?In terms of the black female audience, usually in your body of work if you?ve proven that you love your sisters and will come back home, they will give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time. I heard, ?We?ll get you a pass because we know you?re married to a black woman.??Source
Skulls n Roses! Jim Jones is the new Blair Underwood
2008-04-03 21:43:00 I remember hearing about this movie…in the context of Jimmy saying he was “getting his sex symbol on” in interviews, lol. But who knew it would mean this embarrassment of riches! We got WeeBay, and Serena Williams’ ex-chewtoy, and Elise Neal (from Black Sheep’s “Strobelite Honey” video), and threesomes, and email intrigue, and leading man, ...
In Treatment 8: A Princely Performance
2008-03-23 19:54:00 Week 8 of In Treatment on HBO was it most powerful so far. (I may have said that before - but it's true.)Although Alex's death was no real surprise - I saw it coming last week - I have to admit it brought tears to my eyes. And the funeral scenes were just what the series needed. Paul and we get to see people for the names he and Alex had been discussing ... we meet Alex's wife, children, gay friends, and, of course, Alex's father. Laura's presence was also just right, and I thought she and Paul looked more comfortable together than any time before. Paul also seemed more human and real - a therapist grappling with his own feelings about his patient's death, but, in the end, just a human being, grieving like any of us for the loss of someone he cared about.But, of course, Paul's feelings as Alex's therapist are what drives the story, and these come into full play in Tuesday's episode, when Paul gets a visit from Alex's father, played brilliantly by Glynn Turman (Mayor ...
By: Infinite Regress
In Treatment 4: Love and Death
2008-02-25 00:31:00 Love and death - libido and thanatos - the two primal urges that push and pull our lives - at least, according to Freud.And they both play a primal role in Week 4 of the continuing, powerful In Treatment on HBO...1. Sophie shows up for her session, casts and neck brace off, and looking good. She makes a breakthrough, and begins talking about what she was thinking before and during her accident- but interrupts this to go to the bathroom (this is apparently a time out that patients take, to regroup their energies). But Sophie uses it to ... swallow a whole bunch of sleeping pills. She collapses on the floor of Paul's office, and is rushed to the hospital (we learn in a later episode that Paul talks the hospital docs out of committing her).But - what is Paul doing stocking his bathroom medicine cabinet with sleeping pills - when he knows patients use that bathroom?We find out the explanation on Friday, when Paul tells Gina that since he's sleeping on the couch, he put the pills i...
By: Infinite Regress
In Treatment 3: Triangle
2008-02-17 23:58:00 Alex - brilliantly played by Blair Underwood (all of the acting is brilliant in this series) - was something of the outsider in the first two weeks of In Treatment on HBO. Unlike Laura, Sophie, Jake and Amy, he had no intersection with Paul's wife.In week 3, Alex leapfrogs that intersection for something more profound and potentially disruptive to Paul: Alex is now sleeping with perfectly seductive Laura (Melissa George).They meet when Alex shows up on the wrong day - Monday - and runs into Laura, who is leaving after a particularly aggravating session (actually, they all are, and that's part of the fun - Laura and Paul's, and ours).I'm still not quite convinced by Alex's explanation that he lost track of the day, but maybe this is another indication that his well-ordered life is crumbling.Even more important, this new affair yanks Paul around in multiple ways, like a puppet on half a dozen strings. He'll be jealous of Alex - because Paul clearly feels something for Laura ...
By: Infinite Regress
In Treatment 2: Scalding
2008-02-10 21:06:00 A scalding second week of In Treatment on HBO, with the talk and the action centering much more on Paul and his wife, powerfully played by Michelle Forbes.Michelle Forbes has had memorable roles on trend-setting television ranging from Star Trek to last year's Battlestar Galactica, and her performance as Kate is about as down-to-Earth as you can get and just as outstanding.Kate figures in the Monday Laura episode - Paul doesn't want scintillating Laura to use the bathroom inside his home (the office bathroom needs plumbing) because he doesn't want Kate and Laura to meet. Sophie comes into the office out of the rain on Wednesday, holds her arms up, and asks Paul to help her undress (her arms are in casts). Paul wisely calls on Kate to help.There's a clear tension between between Paul and Kate in every scene they inhabit. But it all comes to a head when Jake and Amy leave unexpectedly on Thursday (she's having a miscarriage), and Paul and Kate are alone in the office.Kate tell...
By: Infinite Regress
Blair Underwood Gets Dirty
2007-10-17 20:10:00 Meet Dirty Sexy Money’s new gazillionaire—Blair Underwood. ABC has been saying that his official debut playing Simon Elder won’t happen until next week, but sources… More: continued here
By: Feed Me Gossip
Blair Underwood joins DIRTY SEXY MONEY
2007-08-02 19:41:00 Blair Underwood (”Sex and the City“) will join the cast of ABC’s new drama series DIRTY SEXY MONEY. Underwood will make his debut as a series regular later this season in a multiple episode story arc, playing savvy, visionary billionaire Simon Elder, a potential nemesis of the Darling family. I have seen a preview from Dirty ...
By: Daemon's TV
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