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Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali has signed on to play boxing legend Jack Johnson in a new HBO series.Unruly will be based on the documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, directed by Ken Burns.Ali previously played Johnson, the world’s first black heavyweight boxing champion, in a stage production of The Great White Hope in 2000.Jackson once took part in a boxing match, dubbed “the fight of the century”, in 1910 against James J. Jeffries and ruled the boxing

Get the tissues! Jessica Simpson, 39, had nothing but sweet things to say about her son Ace when she posted one heck of a 7th birthday tribute for him on Tuesday, June 30. Ace looked just like his father Eric Johnson, 40, in the pic that accompanied her kind words where the two of them warmly embraced each other amid a bunch of birthday-related items like a Boston Red Sox themed cake and several colorful balloons.

When you think of boxing, there are a number of fighters that come to mind. Names like Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, and, of course, Muhammad Ali are all near the top of the list of most popular fighters of all time.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVHBO is developing Unruly, a six-part limited series about legendary boxer Jack Johnson to be played by two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali. The project hails from Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s Playtone and will be written by Dominique Morisseau based the PBS documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, produced and directed by Ken Burns, and its companion book by Geoffrey C.

reported to The New York Times by son Jordan Wexler.Cristal had built a career as an actress during the 1950s in Mexico’s film industry when she was cast in an English-speaking role in 1956’s “Comanche,” directed by George Sherman and starring Dana Andrews.Film and TV credits throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s included roles in “Rawhide,” “Seven Sins,” “The Alamo,” “The Tab Hunter Show” and “Iron Horse,” among others.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticLinda Cristal, the Argentine-born actress who played Victoria Cannon, wife of Leif Erickson’s stoic, heroic rancher Big John Cannon on NBC’s popular 1967-71 Western The High Chaparral, died in her sleep at her Beverly Hills home Saturday.

Actress/singer Olivia Newton John, an ally, is one of dozens of entertainers who will participate in this weekend’s Global Pride. (Photo by Michelle Day; courtesy Global Pride)

The founder of Black Entertainment Television, also known as its acronym BET, Robert Johnson, says that black people don’t care at all about taking down confederate statues. During a conversation with Fox News, Johnson gave his opinion on the current political situation in the United States.

Dave McNary Film ReporterMGM has moved “Bill & Ted Face the Music” back two weeks to Aug. 28 to avoid opening against Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.”MGM announced the move Friday, a day after Warner Bros.

You didn’t think a global pandemic was going to stop Drake from inching closer towards world domination, did you?

Complex, the Toronto rapper will launch his first sneaker collaboration with Nike early next year.