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☆ Donald Glover said Brad Pitt ‘Brad-Pitted’ his way out of giving him advice on ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ series
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Donald Glover thought he might consult Brad Pitt when he decided to take on a new series version of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” Pitt, charmingly, according to Glover, declined. He was like, ‘Yeah, you know, you’ll do great.’”Glover admitted he hadn’t seen the 2005 movie until recently, because he first wanted to work out how the show would go. Glover’s costar Maya Erskine also appeared on “The Tonight Show.”The new Prime Video series follows two spies who are forced into new identities in an arranged marriage. & Mrs. Smith” starts streaming Feb. 2.

Persons: Donald Glover, Brad Pitt, Smith, ” Pitt, Glover, Jimmy Fallon ”, Pitt, Angelina Jolie, ” Glover, ’ ” Glover, hadn’t, ”, “, It’d, Maya Erskine, Smith ” Organizations: CNN Locations: charmingly

☆ Maya Erskine, of ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith,’ Thinks She Would Make a Good Spy
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Alexis Soloski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“What would happen if James Bond had a blister?” Maya Erskine wondered recently. Erskine, 36, an actor and writer, has been thinking of hypotheticals like these ever since Donald Glover (“Atlanta,” “Swarm”) approached her about starring in “Mr. This eight-episode series, created by Glover and the writer Francesca Sloane, arrives on Amazon Prime Video on Feb. 2. The new John and Jane Smith, played by Glover and Erskine, are spies hired by a shadowy organization to pose as a married couple. While completing high-risk missions and racking up casualties, John and Jane are also achieving various relationship milestones — first date, first kiss, first vacation.

Persons: James Bond, Erskine, Donald Glover, “, Smith, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Glover, Francesca Sloane, John, Jane Smith, Phoebe Waller, Jane, —, ” Organizations: Amazon Prime, Glover’s Locations: Atlanta

☆ Joey Evans Is Back. This Time He’s a Struggling Artist.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Brian Seibert | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Those ancestors appear in the form of extraordinary tap dancers, including Dormeshia and Glover. And they keep reappearing throughout the show to remind Joey of his authentic self. This Joey, played by Ephraim Sykes, has a soul, and that soul expresses itself in the deeply rooted sound of Savion Glover’s tap dancing. Frank Sinatra played Joey for the sanitized 1957 film. Revivals at City Center in the 1960s starred Bob Fosse, years before he directed shows like “Chicago” that made Joey’s sleaze into a dominant style.

Persons: Joey, Ephraim Sykes, ” Beaty, Ossie Davis, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, ’ ” Glover, Jimmy Slyde, Lon Chaney, Chuck Green, Buster Brown, ”, ‘, Glover, Henry LeTang, “, Slyde, Chaney, ” Glover, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Bob Fosse Organizations: Dormeshia, Hollywood, City Center Locations: Glover, ‘ Da

☆ Tanya Lee Glover: Australian police identify woman whose body was found inside a wall in Brisbane
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Kathleen Magramo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Tanya Lee Glover, born in 1971, was vision and hearing impaired, and would have been approximately 38 years old at the time of her death, Queensland Police said in a statement on Thursday. Her body was found partially buried and was tightly wrapped in clothing and bedding, police said at the time. Tanya Lee Glover's death was "concerning and peculiar," detective superintendent Andrew Massingham told reporters on August 10, 2023. A low resolution photograph of Glover released by police shows a smiling woman with shoulder length brunette hair and glasses. Detectives appealed for anyone who may have known Glover or had any interactions with her, particularly during 2006 to 2010, to contact authorities.

Persons: Tanya Lee Glover, Andrew Massingham, ” Massingham, Tanya Lee Glover's, Glover Organizations: CNN, Queensland Police, Queensland Police Service Locations: Alderley, Brisbane, Queensland, New South Wales, Fortitude

☆ Black Experience, Past and Present, Made Haunting and Surreal
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Randy Boyagoda | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Uncanny disquiet governs the stories in this collection. In “Heads,” Jimi Hendrix, who has appeared elsewhere in Allen’s fiction, spends late nights with the painter Francis Bacon, the two talking about art-making and life while Jimi occasionally strums his guitar. In the collection’s title story, Allen sends the boxer Jack Johnson to Australia for a high-profile fight, where his celebrity and Blackness lead to singular experiences at racialized extremes of local life. On description alone, you might think this is merely weird and wise comedy, but I think Allen has more in common with Donald Glover than George Saunders. These are difficult, inventive stories that, at their best, occupy a range of frequencies and otherworldly places with — to borrow Allen’s brilliant three-word description of Jimi Hendrix’s way with music — a “fierce itching dazzle.”

Persons: disquiet, Allen, Allen —, ” Miles Davis loathes, Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, Jimi, Jack Johnson, Muhammad Ali, Ali, Larry Holmes, Donald Glover, George Saunders, ”, Jimi Hendrix’s Organizations: Chicago, Champ Locations: Australia, “ Atlanta

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