TV Guide: Obba Babatunde

Listing: The Silence of the Lambs

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:10:00 -0500

Sun Dec 14 03:10 AM STRZ1

Listing: How High

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:30:00 -0500

Sat Dec 13 10:30 AM COMEDY

Listing: That Thing You Do!

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:15:00 -0500

Mon Dec 8 02:15 PM STRZ1

Listing: Dead Again

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:50:00 -0500

Sun Dec 7 03:50 AM HBOSGe

Listing: Life

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:10:00 -0500

Fri Dec 5 06:10 PM ENCR1

Listing: Undercover Blues

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:15:00 -0500

Fri Dec 5 11:15 AM ENCR1

Listing: The Temptations

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 3 08:00 PM VH1

Video: Visit, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:35:15 -0500

A cast of distinguished veterans and promising newcomers headline this stark prison drama from first-time writer-director Jordan Walker-Pearlman. Hill Harper stars as embittered inmate Alex, sentenced to serve time for a rape he claims that he didn't commit. His link to the outside world is his upper-middle class bother Tony (Obba Babatunde), the only family member who's come to visit him in the half-decade he's been in jail. On his latest visit, Alex pleads with Tony to have the rest of the family visit him, admitting that he's in the final stages of his battle with AIDS. Through flashbacks, dream sequences, and real-time encounters, Alex interacts with the people who have shaped his life -- his parents (Marla Gibbs and Billy Dee Williams), his old friend (Rae Dawn Chong), and his therapist (Phylicia Rashad) -- and attempts to overcome the seething anger and resentment that have punctuated his time in prison. The Visit was greeted with much acclaim when it premiered at the 2000 {~Method Fest Independent Film

Video: Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:15:58 -0500

Dorothy Dandridge was a singer, nightclub entertainer, and actress who became the first African-American woman to receive an Academy award nomination as Best Actress (for her standout performance in 1954's Carmen Jones; she lost to Grace Kelly). However, despite her striking beauty and obvious talent, Dandridge was a sexy, glamorous black femme fatale at a time when Hollywood pin-up queens were supposed to be giggly blondes. The film industry didn't know what to do with her, and while her nightclub act was a bit too smooth for the Southern roadhouse circuit, as a black performer she wasn't allowed to stay in many of the hotels and resorts where she performed. Dandridge also had a sad personal life, filled with tragedy and romantic disappointment, and she died of an overdose of pills in 1965, at the age of 41. This made-for-cable biographical drama stars Halle Berry as Dorothy Dandridge, supported by Brent Spiner, Obba Babatunde, and Klaus Maria Brandauer. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Visit, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:22:23 -0500

Video: How High

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:42:29 -0500

A pair of real-life multi-platinum rap artists star in this genial substance abuse comedy recalling the pro-marijuana work of Cheech and Chong and such films as Half Baked (1998). Silas (Method Man) and Jamal (Redman) are buddies who enjoy smoking voluminous amounts of the illegal plant. They end up in the possession of some magical weed that enhances their brainpower during college entrance exams, thus enabling them to enter that esteemed institution of learning, Harvard University. Once firmly ensconced in the halls of academia, however, the pals run out of their supernatural supply and are forced to get creative in the pursuit of an Ivy League degree. Included in their narcotic-addled plans: smoking the bones of dead president John Quincy Adams. Produced by Danny DeVito's Jersey Films, How High (2001) co-stars Obba Babatunde, Fred Willard, and Hector Elizondo. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide.

Photo: Woody Harrelson and Obba Babatunde - "After The Sunset" Los Angeles premiere, November 4, 2004

courtesy Michael Caulfield/WireImage.com — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0500

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