Sammy Davis Jr.’s 1967 Guest Column: Facing Racism and Overcoming ‘Second-Class Citizenship’

Ok look — I’m a good parent. I love my kids, I’m fun-ish, and I try to raise my children practically.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentIn a 1991 essay, John Gregory Dunne said male stars are allowed to age gracefully onscreen, unlike females: “Men grow older; women grow old.” In general, he’s right: Acting has always been a difficult profession, especially for women over 35.Dunne (1932-2003) unfortunately didn’t live long enough to see this year’s notable work by actresses over 50.

There is a void. Where once there was sunlight. There is a void.

Dina LaPolt Guest ColumnistIn a judicial opinion filed last month, The State of Maryland’s highest court ruled that rap lyrics may be admitted in court as evidence of a defendant’s guilt. This blatantly racist decision is a travesty that sets a dangerous precedent.The case involves the January 2017 killing of George Forrester, who was shot by a drug dealer after he attempted to buy cocaine with a counterfeit bill.

Investment firms Searchlight Capital Partners, ForgeLight, founded by former Viacom CFO Wade Davis, with Mexico’s Grupo Televisa announced Tuesday they’ve completed the acquisition of giant Spanish-language broadcaster Univision.

Actor Demián Bichir has written numerous columns for Deadline on subjects ranging from the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, the cruel forced separation of refugee children by the Trump Administration, the powerful imagery of Roma and the need to protect from Covid those locked up along the border for seeking the American dream.

Long before former Hulu chief Jason Kilar became disruptor in chief at WarnerMedia and put the entire 2021 Warner Bros slate on HBO Max, Fredric Rosen began changing the way concert tickets were sold as the Ticketmaster president/CEO, when the service became the leading computerized ticketing company in the world.

Clayton Davis Regina King saw every Black man that she loved in the men of “One Night in Miami” and wanted them to see themselves. “You better not ‘f’ this up,” King says she would say to herself during the entire shoot, and even after.In this week’s Awards Circuit Podcast, King talks about why she wanted to direct Kemp Powers’ play for her feature directorial debut.

Editors note: Rachel Feldman is a Los Angeles-based film and television director whose credits include over 75 hours of longform movies and recent series including ABC’s The Rookie, CBS’ Blue Bloods and Criminal Minds, and MGM’s The Baxters. A former chair of the DGA Women’s Steering Committee, she is working on a political thriller based on the life of equal-pay icon Lily Ledbetter.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentThe entertainment industry had been under fire for irresponsible depictions of violence from the early days, including 1930s gangster movies and the glut of 1950s TV Westerns.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentAs a long-delayed sequel to Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1939 guest column, Variety invited First Lady Michelle Obama to write about showbiz. The item ran on the front page on Oct.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterSony Music Entertainment has announced the appointment of Andrew Davis to the role of Executive Vice President and Global Chief Human Resources Officer.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentThe sixth-anniversary issue of Daily Variety, on Oct. 20, 1939, contained something that was unprecedented for the newspaper and for the author: A guest column by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt about movies.She started by saying she was uniquely unqualified to write about the motion picture industry.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentOne of the many upheavals created by World War II was the method of news reporting. In May 1939, for example, Variety carried a story about an exciting system that allowed newsreel footage from Europe to be seen in the U.S.

When Universal, Disney and Warner Bros. revealed changes to their film release plans during the past nine months, the focus had been on tentpoles.

Viola Davis “lost it” after receiving the news her Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom co-star Chadwick Boseman had died.The actor, who lost his battle with cancer in August (202020), filmed the Netflix movie, about the iconic African-American blues singer, with Davis in the summer of 2019.Speaking on Britain’s The Graham Norton Show, the actress paid tribute to her late co-star, admitting she was “so surprised” by the tragic news as she was in the dark about his illness.“When I found out he was gone, I

Cheyenne Floyd, 28, is going to be a mother of two — something she has been praying for. The Teen Mom OG star revealed that she’s pregnant with her second child, and her first with boyfriend Zach Davis, in two separate Instagram announcements on Dec.

Teen Mom OG star Cheyenne Floyd is pregnant with baby No. 2, her first with boyfriend Zach Davis.“Coming soon 2021,” Floyd, 28, captioned an Instagram video on Thursday, December 17.

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentTo celebrate Variety’s 115th anniversary, we went to the archives to see how some of Hollywood’s biggest stars first landed in the pages of our magazine. Read more from the archives here.In 1961, the St.