May 2010

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[caption id="attachment_723" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Editor, Director, Actor. Loren is a Triple Threat!"][/caption] Loren Lillian is the perfect woman to follow up my tribute to Lena Horne.  Like Lena, she only does work she's passionate about--and like Lena, who sang, acted and danced, Loren is also adept at more than one skill in the business: editing, directing, and acting. I've had the pleasure of working with Loren as an editor. She is as down-to-earth and gracious as she is gorgeous. Her editorial cutting skills are formidable; she can knock a promo out or labor over a feature, as she has with Haile Gerima's TEZA,...

14 May, 2010 /

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne 1917-2010 [caption id="attachment_708" align="aligncenter" width="97" caption="Lena Horne. The Mother of Black Hollywood"][/caption] Groundbreaking actor, dancer, and vocal stylist Lena Horne made her transition at the age of 92. Lena Horne, with her smoldering voice, lithe dancer's body, and flawless beauty, is the Mother of Black Hollywood: its glamour; its contradictions, its fighting spirit. Before Dorothy Dandridge, Lonnette McKee, Vanessa Williams, Halle Berry, or Paula Patton, there was Lena. If you are a woman of color in the business, and you elect to pursue a living performing on stage, using a microphone or appearing before a camera, you owe a debt...

10 May, 2010 /