The Color Purple News

The Brooklyn/New Zealand indie-pop duo Coasting , whose membership includes one Vivian Girl, have a new video for their simple, direct basher "Same Old Same Old." The animated clip, from director Alice Cohen , is made collage-style entirely from old photos and postcards.

She was in "Dreamgirls," but playing Celie in "The Color Purple" -- that was a dream worth chasing for Carla Hughes.

Danny Glover is most known for his roles in the movies 'The Color Purple', 'Angels in the Outfield' and of course the 'Lethal Weapon' series.

The movie introduced viewers to Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey. 20 years later, the musical took Broadway by storm, pulling in 11 Tony award nominations.

But "The Color Purple" became an even bigger hit when director Gary Griffin turned the Alice Walker epic into a stage musical.

The gents named in the title of this show are civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King and poet Langston Hughes, and these iconic figures in black history will be played by, respectively, acclaimed actors Felix Justice and Danny Glover .

On top of the campaign to pressure New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to release terrorist killer Judith Clark from prison, the far-left is asking President Obama to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, an American Indian activist who was convicted of the execution-style murders of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams.

I always chuckle when Childish Gambino - who is actor Donald Glover in real life - raps: Donald Glover, no relation.

Justice portrays civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Glover plays African-American poet and writer Langston Hughes .

Held every Friday, the library presents a free film, starting at 2 p.m. a Feb. 3 - "The Color Purple" featuring Danny Glover, Whoopie Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey.

Also click here to see Bill Wyman's complete ranking of Spielberg's films. Steven Spielberg has always had a surprisingly uneven relationship with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Performing in "The Color Purple" has been a dream Deidra Grace has had her mind set on from the first time she saw the play on Broadway.

Steven Spielberg just celebrated his 65th birthday on December 16, but you wouldn't know it because the Hollywood veteran always had the soul and energy of a kid.