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Vivica A. Fox Is Producing And Starring In A Whopping Four Lifetime Films This July
LMN‘s successful Wrong movie franchise returns this summer with four new films premiering every Friday in July at 8pm ET/PT.
Vivica A. Fox (Indepen- dence Day), who previously starred in a number of Wrong movies, including The Wrong Roommate, The Wrong Child, The Wrong Student, The Wrong Crush, The Wrong Man, The Wrong Cruise, The Wrong Friend, and The Wrong Teacher, continues her relationship with the network, starring in and producing all four new movies, The Wrong Step- mother, The Wrong Boy Next Door, The Wrong Mommy
VIVICA FOX
and The Wrong Tutor. Jackée Harry also stars in The Wrong Tutor while Eric Roberts stars in The Wrong Mommy.
Entertainer Steve Harvey will cover the tuition of eight incoming students at his alma mater, Kent State University, The Associated Press reported Monday.
The Ohio school reportedly announced that The Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation will provide each student $23,000 per year. They will have to maintain a 2.5 grade point average in order for their scholarships to be re- newed each semester.
The donation was made in memory of Devin Moore, a Kent State student from Cleveland who died in 2017
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while playing basketball at a university center.
The foundation reportedly also committed $10,000 to Kent State's Men Empower-
ment Network.
Harvey is host of "Family
Feud." He previously hosted a talk show that ended earlier this year.
Disney Channel Sets Scholarship In Honor Of The Late 'Raven's Home' And 'One On One' Helmer Eunetta T. Boone
The Eunetta T. Boone Comedy Writer's Scholarship was announced Monday. The network says, "In memory of the trailblazing writer and producer, the scholarship will provide dedicated funds to hire emerging and diverse writers who are pursuing ca- reers in comedy writing for television," said Nancy Kanter, executive vice pres- ident, Content and Creative Strategy, Disney Channels Worldwide.
"Eunetta loved the craft of writing, she was proud of her art both as a reflection of our world and as a way to shape culture. She had a keen appreciation of true talent and mentored many young
Disney Channel is honoring the late, great creative Eunetta T. Boone. Her last gig was being the showrunner of the network's comedy series, Raven's Home.
diverse voices throughout her career. As a showrunner, she was also an inspiring leader who steered sitcoms with tremendous wit and wisdom.
We miss her and are proud to begin this scholarship that will carry on her legacy of en- couraging future generations of writers."
Starz has picked up origi- nal series Wrong Man for a second season, the an- nouncement coming the same week the Supreme Court struck down the con- viction of death row inmate Curtis Flowers, whose case was examined in the se- ries’ first season.
The six-episode second season from filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost trilogy, Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes) re-investigates three cases of inmates who have been incarcerated for decades but claim they were wrongfully convicted of the brutal crimes.
“With Wrong Man, Joe and his team have created a format unique to the true crime genre that is both com-
A Scene from the ‘Wrong Man’.
pelling for viewers and has had real life implications for the wrongfully accused indi- viduals involved in these cases,” said Jeffrey Hirsch, Starz COO. “With a second season, we look forward to deploying our team of ex- perts on three new cases, to continue to explore whether justice was in fact served.”
Steve Harvey To Cover College Costs For 8 Students At Alma Mater
Starz Renews ‘Wrong Man’ For Second Season
Idris Elba 'Disheartened' By Racially Charged Bond Casting Backlash
Idris Elba has been in the James Bond conversa- tion for years, but the actor says he’s bothered by some of the racial references that pop up when he’s mentioned as the next 007.
In fact, the Luther star finds it troubling that some people don’t think he could play the suave super spy be- cause he’s black.
“You just get disheartened when you get people from a generational point of view going, ‘It can’t be.’ And it re- ally turns out to be the color of my skin,” Elba says in the August issue of Vanity Fair.
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“And then if I get it and it did- n’t work, or it did work, would it be because of the color of my skin? That’s a dif-
ficult position to put myself into when I don’t need to.”
Elba tells the magazine he’s never expressed interest in the role, although he ad- mits if approached, he’d defi- nitely say yes.
“James Bond is a hugely coveted, iconic, beloved char- acter, that takes audiences on this massive escapism jour- ney,” he adds. “Of course, if someone said to me ‘Do you want to play James Bond?,’ I’d be like, Yeah! That’s fasci- nating to me. But it’s not something I’ve expressed, like, yeah, I wanna be the black James Bond.”
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