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“Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union,” a three-part HBO documentary series offering a behind-the-scenes look at President Barack Obama, arrives on HBO Max on August 4, coinciding with the former commander in chief’s 60th birthday.
Directed by Emmy-winner Peter Kunhardt, “Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union” will premiere on HBO on August 3, before hitting the streaming service. HBO described the documentary as detailing the “personal and political journey of President Obama as the country grapples with its racial history.” The documentary shares a cohesive portrait of America under its first Black president, beginning with Obama’s childhood. The series takes viewers inside his perspective of being the son of...
“Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union,” a three-part HBO documentary series offering a behind-the-scenes look at President Barack Obama, arrives on HBO Max on August 4, coinciding with the former commander in chief’s 60th birthday.
Directed by Emmy-winner Peter Kunhardt, “Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union” will premiere on HBO on August 3, before hitting the streaming service. HBO described the documentary as detailing the “personal and political journey of President Obama as the country grapples with its racial history.” The documentary shares a cohesive portrait of America under its first Black president, beginning with Obama’s childhood. The series takes viewers inside his perspective of being the son of...
- 8/3/2021
- by Latifah Muhammad
- Indiewire
Ezra Edelman is taking to the mound to direct Legendary's biopic about famed baseball player Roberto Clemente.
Last year, Edelman won an Oscar and an Emmy for his acclaimed documentary O.J.: Made in America.
He will develop the Clemente film with writer Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Legendary previously acquired the rights to David Maraniss’ 2006 book, Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero, as well as striking an agreement with the late Clemente’s family for his life rights.
Clemente was a Puerto Rican baseball player who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1955 to 1972. In December 1972, he...
Last year, Edelman won an Oscar and an Emmy for his acclaimed documentary O.J.: Made in America.
He will develop the Clemente film with writer Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Legendary previously acquired the rights to David Maraniss’ 2006 book, Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero, as well as striking an agreement with the late Clemente’s family for his life rights.
Clemente was a Puerto Rican baseball player who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1955 to 1972. In December 1972, he...
- 2/5/2018
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ICM Partners announced Thursday that it has acquired The Sagalyn Agency, a Washington, D.C.-based run by Raphael Sagalyn. Raphael Sagalyn, who founded the agency three decades ago, will become a partner at ICM. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Sagalyn represents journalist turned thriller writer David Ignatius, sci-fi novelist Daniel Suarez and Francine Mathews, author of 24 novels, including 14 under the pseudonym Stephanie Barron. Also Read: ICM Partners Vows to Reach 50-50 Gender Parity in Next 2 Years Sagalyn’s other clients include historians Rick Atkinson, David Maraniss, Jeff Shesol, Susan Glasser, Peter Baker, Peter Finn, Ronen Bergman, Eugene Robinson, Michael Dobbs...
- 1/25/2018
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
With the surprise success of 2013's 42, Legendary Pictures wants to keep their interests on the field. To do so they'll trade Jackie Robinson for Roberto Clemente, as the Pittsburgh Pirates legend gets his life story optioned for the big screen. The untitled film is based upon David Maraniss' "Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero", and the company also entered agreements with Clemente's family for his life rights. Additionally, this upcoming biopic apparently comes from the heart for Legendary CEO Thomas Tull, as he's a board member on the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, NY. Clemente is the first Latino player ever to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. This was an honor served posthumously after the baseball player died in a plane crash in Puerto Rico on New Year's Eve, 1972, following efforts to help organize disaster relief in Nicaragua after an earthquake.
- 6/4/2015
- by Will Ashton
- Rope of Silicon
A biopic of Pittsburgh Pirates legend Roberto Clemente, the first Latino inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, is in development at Legendary Pictures - the same company that backed 2013's Jackie Robinson biopic, "42," which starred Chadwick Boseman as the man who broke the baseball color line, when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947, becoming the first African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era. The film will be based on David Maraniss’ book "Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero," and is being made with the cooperation of Clemente’s family. Ben Silverman...
- 6/3/2015
- by Vanessa Martinez
- ShadowAndAct
Mad Men
AMC has released several images from the upcoming season six premiere of "Mad Men". The images reveal very little in the way of story details, click here to see them.
Conquistadors
FX is developing the event series "Conquistadors" based on the Kim MacQuarrie book "Last Days of the Incas". Nicholas Osborne is writing and executive producing the drama.
The story follows Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro, the two Spanish Conquistadors who conquered the Incan empire, and Manco Inca and Cura Occlo, two teenage Incan royal lovers who led one of the greatest rebellions in history. [Source: The Live Feed]
They Marched to Sunlight
FX is also developing "They Marched Into Sunlight," a six-part limited series which "Traffic" scribe Stephen Gaghan will executive produce. The story is based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss.
Eric Simonson is writing the series which centers on two simultaneous events in October 1967 — the...
AMC has released several images from the upcoming season six premiere of "Mad Men". The images reveal very little in the way of story details, click here to see them.
Conquistadors
FX is developing the event series "Conquistadors" based on the Kim MacQuarrie book "Last Days of the Incas". Nicholas Osborne is writing and executive producing the drama.
The story follows Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro, the two Spanish Conquistadors who conquered the Incan empire, and Manco Inca and Cura Occlo, two teenage Incan royal lovers who led one of the greatest rebellions in history. [Source: The Live Feed]
They Marched to Sunlight
FX is also developing "They Marched Into Sunlight," a six-part limited series which "Traffic" scribe Stephen Gaghan will executive produce. The story is based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss.
Eric Simonson is writing the series which centers on two simultaneous events in October 1967 — the...
- 4/3/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
After directing his sophomore feature, the 2005 critically-acclaimed globe-trotting thriller “Syriana,” “Traffic” writer Stephen Gaghan has had a rough go of getting a new project started. And while it seems that he’s finally gearing up to shoot his follow-up, the Oscar-winning screenwriter is also planning a stop on the small screen. Deadline is reporting that Gaghan is executive producing a limited series adaptation of David Maraniss’ “They Marched Into Sunlight” for FX, which will focus on two events that happened during the Vietnam war in October 1967: the controversial Battle of Ong Thanh and a protest on the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin. Gaghan won’t be too involved with the writing of the show though, as playwright Eric Simonson has been tapped to actually write the entire series, but the sprawl and subject matter seem to fit squarely in his wheelhouse. It seems that “limited series” is the new buzzword at FX,...
- 4/2/2013
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
Exclusive: FX has put in development They Marched Into Sunlight, a six-part limited series executive produced by Oscar winner Stephen Gaghan. The project, produced by Fox 21 and FX Prods, is based on the bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist David Maraniss. Oscar-winning documentarian and playwright Eric Simonson (A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin) is writing the series. Maraniss and Simonson are executive producing alongside Gaghan and Suzanne Joskow, who are executive producing through Gaghan’s company, Unsupervised, under his pod deal with Fox 21. They Marched Into Sunlight explores the Vietnam War both on the battlefield and at home. It centers on two simultaneous events in October 1967 — the violent ambush of the Black Lion army battalion in the jungles of Vietnam, and a student protest against Dow Chemical, the makers of napalm, on the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin — both of which...
- 4/1/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The team that brought us the classic mob film Scarface, Al Pacino and director Brian De Palma, are teaming bsck up to make a movie about Penn State Coach Joe Paterno. The working title for the film is Happy Valley, and it will be based on the book Paterno by Joe Posnanski. Pacino will star in the film and De Palma will direct. Edward R. Pressman is producing the film, and this is what he had to say in a statement,
Happy Valley reunites the Scarface and Carlito’s Way team of De Palma & Pacino for the third time and I can’t think of a better duo to tell this story of a complex, intensely righteous man who was brought down by his own tragic flaw.
As you know Paterno’s legend was undone when it was revealed that he and several others in the football program were aware...
Happy Valley reunites the Scarface and Carlito’s Way team of De Palma & Pacino for the third time and I can’t think of a better duo to tell this story of a complex, intensely righteous man who was brought down by his own tragic flaw.
As you know Paterno’s legend was undone when it was revealed that he and several others in the football program were aware...
- 1/16/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
First announced last September , Al Pacino is set to headline a biopic of former Penn State head coach Joe Paterno. Deadline now reports that the project, to be titled Happy Valley , will reunite the star with his Scarface director Brian De Palma. The film version is said to be based on Joe Posnanski.s recent biography, "Paterno," officially described as follows: Joe Posnanski.s biography of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno follows in the tradition of works by Richard Ben Cramer on Joe Dimaggio and David Maraniss on Vince Lombardi. Having gained unprecedented access to Paterno, as well as the coach.s personal notes and files, Posnanski spent the last two years of Paterno.s life covering the coach, on (and off) the field and through the scandal that...
- 1/16/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Attention war film buffs: there are three exciting, scheduled new releases to put in your diaries for 2013. Each is based on a true story, two from WW2 and one from Vietnam, so it will be interesting to see – if you are a stickler for ‘authenticity’ like me – just how closely each sticks to the historical facts.
First up is The Railway Man from Australian director Jonathan Teplitzky (Better Than Sex, 2000; Burning Man, 2011), which stars Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, is currently in post-production, and is set for release in Australia in April 2013 and then worldwide in May.
It tells the story of Eric Lomax, a young British Army signals officer who was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore in 1942 then forced to work as a slave-labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand railway – and promises to be a much more ‘authentic’ film than David Lean’s 1957 blockbuster, The Bridge on the River Kwai.
First up is The Railway Man from Australian director Jonathan Teplitzky (Better Than Sex, 2000; Burning Man, 2011), which stars Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, is currently in post-production, and is set for release in Australia in April 2013 and then worldwide in May.
It tells the story of Eric Lomax, a young British Army signals officer who was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore in 1942 then forced to work as a slave-labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand railway – and promises to be a much more ‘authentic’ film than David Lean’s 1957 blockbuster, The Bridge on the River Kwai.
- 11/29/2012
- by Roger Bourke
- SoundOnSight
Al Pacino is taking the lead role in an adaptation of Joe Posnanski.s biography Paterno , Deadline reports. The recent bestseller details the life of the former Penn State head coach, Joe Paterno, including the sexual abuse scandal that broke last year. The book itself is officially described as follows: Joe Posnanski.s biography of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno follows in the tradition of works by Richard Ben Cramer on Joe Dimaggio and David Maraniss on Vince Lombardi. Having gained unprecedented access to Paterno, as well as the coach.s personal notes and files, Posnanski spent the last two years of Paterno.s life covering the coach, on (and off) the field and through the scandal that ended Paterno.s legendary career. Joe Posnanski, who in 2012 was named...
- 9/7/2012
- Comingsoon.net
According to a new biography by David Maraniss, Barack Obama was a big music fan in his college years. Barry -- as he was then known -- often played Jimi Hendrix, Earth, Wind & Fire and Billie Holiday, but Maraniss writes that he was best known for "his wicked impression of Mick Jagger."
"He could do the walk, the strut, the face," writes Maraniss in "Barack Obama: The Story" (Yahoo acquired a copy of the book, which is out June 19).
As fate would have it, Obama sang with Mick Jagger at a White House event in February. The president joined Jagger and B.B. King to croon "Sweet Home Chicago" at the "In Performance in the White House" celebration of blues.
A younger Obama allegedly also enjoyed acting out Jagger's reaction to the chaotic unfoldings of a Rolling Stones set at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival in 1969. Many were injured and four...
"He could do the walk, the strut, the face," writes Maraniss in "Barack Obama: The Story" (Yahoo acquired a copy of the book, which is out June 19).
As fate would have it, Obama sang with Mick Jagger at a White House event in February. The president joined Jagger and B.B. King to croon "Sweet Home Chicago" at the "In Performance in the White House" celebration of blues.
A younger Obama allegedly also enjoyed acting out Jagger's reaction to the chaotic unfoldings of a Rolling Stones set at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival in 1969. Many were injured and four...
- 6/3/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
First Lady Michelle Obama weighed in on recent revelations about her husband's past drug use on Tuesday, acknowledging that President Obama realized at a young age that he "could do more with his life."
During an appearance on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" to promote her new cookbook, the First Lady was asked by host Jon Stewart about the president's high school and college years. An excerpt released last week from David Maraniss's forthcoming biography of the president contained details about Obama's marijuana use as a teenager. Stewart joked that the stories about the president as a young man resembled the "script of a Cheech and Chong movie."
While the First Lady didn't directly address the claims in Maraniss' book, she did say that her husband underwent a change during his college years.
"By the time he was in college, like so many young people, he realized that...
During an appearance on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" to promote her new cookbook, the First Lady was asked by host Jon Stewart about the president's high school and college years. An excerpt released last week from David Maraniss's forthcoming biography of the president contained details about Obama's marijuana use as a teenager. Stewart joked that the stories about the president as a young man resembled the "script of a Cheech and Chong movie."
While the First Lady didn't directly address the claims in Maraniss' book, she did say that her husband underwent a change during his college years.
"By the time he was in college, like so many young people, he realized that...
- 5/30/2012
- by Mollie Reilly
- Huffington Post
Everett T.S. Eliot
Yesterday, excerpts were released from the upcoming David Maraniss biography “Barack Obama: The Story” to be published on June 19 by Simon & Schuster; Included are letters from President Barack Obama’s college/post-grad era, such as one he wrote in 1982 in which he discusses T.S. Eliot’s thick modernist poem “The Waste Land” (1922). We asked some academics to respond to Mr. Obama’s observations, noted below:
Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Münzer to Yeats.
Yesterday, excerpts were released from the upcoming David Maraniss biography “Barack Obama: The Story” to be published on June 19 by Simon & Schuster; Included are letters from President Barack Obama’s college/post-grad era, such as one he wrote in 1982 in which he discusses T.S. Eliot’s thick modernist poem “The Waste Land” (1922). We asked some academics to respond to Mr. Obama’s observations, noted below:
Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Münzer to Yeats.
- 5/3/2012
- by Monika Anderson
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
President Barack Obama's former girlfriend Genevieve Cook probably didn't think her journal entries would become public someday when she penned them more than 25 years ago, but there they are, folded into the pages of Washington Post reporter David Maraniss' upcoming biography of the president, "Barack Obama: The Story."
Vanity Fair magazine published a six-page excerpt Wednesday (May 2), which focuses on two of Obama's former girlfriends, Alex McNear, whom Obama met at Occidental College before transferring to Columbia, and Genevieve Cook, the daughter of a prominent Australian diplomat.
Though she was his New York girlfriend, Obama says that it wasn't Cook he was referring to in "Dreams of My Father" when writing, "There was a woman in New York that I loved. She was white ... Her voice sounded like a wind chime." He goes on to describe an incident in which this girlfriend "started talking about why black...
Vanity Fair magazine published a six-page excerpt Wednesday (May 2), which focuses on two of Obama's former girlfriends, Alex McNear, whom Obama met at Occidental College before transferring to Columbia, and Genevieve Cook, the daughter of a prominent Australian diplomat.
Though she was his New York girlfriend, Obama says that it wasn't Cook he was referring to in "Dreams of My Father" when writing, "There was a woman in New York that I loved. She was white ... Her voice sounded like a wind chime." He goes on to describe an incident in which this girlfriend "started talking about why black...
- 5/2/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
VanityFair.com The article online, minus a photo of Ms. Cook.
Take that, Internet. Vanity Fair magazine’s fascinating new book excerpt on Barack Obama in the early 1980s has been posted online, but you’ll have to buy a print copy for one key thing: a photo of his then-girlfriend.
VanityFair.com has a long selection of David Maraniss‘s biography of Barack Obama as a young man, covering his time in New York during his first job after...
Take that, Internet. Vanity Fair magazine’s fascinating new book excerpt on Barack Obama in the early 1980s has been posted online, but you’ll have to buy a print copy for one key thing: a photo of his then-girlfriend.
VanityFair.com has a long selection of David Maraniss‘s biography of Barack Obama as a young man, covering his time in New York during his first job after...
- 5/2/2012
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Getty Actress Judith Light
Judith Light is nominated for a Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Play, for her role as Marie, wife of famed football coach Vince Lombardi (played by Dan Lauria).
Light, who starred as Angela Bower on “Who’s the Boss?” and Karen Wolek on “One Life to Live,” received critical acclaim for her performance as Lombardi’s “hammer-tongued, hard-drinking wife,” according to the Journal’s theater critic, Terry Teachout.
Speakeasy caught up with Light recently to discuss her Tony nomination,...
Judith Light is nominated for a Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Play, for her role as Marie, wife of famed football coach Vince Lombardi (played by Dan Lauria).
Light, who starred as Angela Bower on “Who’s the Boss?” and Karen Wolek on “One Life to Live,” received critical acclaim for her performance as Lombardi’s “hammer-tongued, hard-drinking wife,” according to the Journal’s theater critic, Terry Teachout.
Speakeasy caught up with Light recently to discuss her Tony nomination,...
- 6/10/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
We continue our examination of the new business book Practically Radical with an interview of author William C. Taylor--one of the cofounders of Fast Company magazine. Taylor explains how the book came together, and how the business world has changed in the years since his last book.
What was the impetus for writing Practically Radical?
I want Practically Radical to be a manifesto for change and a manual for making it happen, at a moment in business and social history when change is the name of the game. We're all still struggling to learn lessons from the catastrophic meltdown of the last few years. I started to worry that too many organizations and leaders were learning the wrong lessons--they were becoming conservative and risk-averse, they were learning to resist innovation as opposed to embracing it as the only way out of our funk. I hope readers will use Practically Radical...
What was the impetus for writing Practically Radical?
I want Practically Radical to be a manifesto for change and a manual for making it happen, at a moment in business and social history when change is the name of the game. We're all still struggling to learn lessons from the catastrophic meltdown of the last few years. I started to worry that too many organizations and leaders were learning the wrong lessons--they were becoming conservative and risk-averse, they were learning to resist innovation as opposed to embracing it as the only way out of our funk. I hope readers will use Practically Radical...
- 1/6/2011
- by Kevin Ohannessian
- Fast Company
Last week, there was a wonderful essay in The New York Times about a leadership program created by the old Bell System back in 1952. The all-powerful telephone company worried that its executives needed a broader perspective, not just on business but also on society, even life itself. "A well-trained man knows how to answer questions," one sociologist explained. "An educated man knows what questions are worth asking."
Working with the University of Pennsylvania, Bell launched the Institute of Humanistic Studies for Executives--a 10-month program in which businesspeople read and debated the Great Books, visited museums, and studied architecture. The "capstone" of the program was a series of eight three-hour seminars devoted to Ulysses. Can you imagine? Twenty-four hours devoted to the discussion of a single (and famously vexing) novel!
As I finished the Times piece, I lamented how little time any of us has to think deeper, look broader, and...
Working with the University of Pennsylvania, Bell launched the Institute of Humanistic Studies for Executives--a 10-month program in which businesspeople read and debated the Great Books, visited museums, and studied architecture. The "capstone" of the program was a series of eight three-hour seminars devoted to Ulysses. Can you imagine? Twenty-four hours devoted to the discussion of a single (and famously vexing) novel!
As I finished the Times piece, I lamented how little time any of us has to think deeper, look broader, and...
- 7/2/2010
- by William Taylor
- Fast Company
New York -- The NFL is taking Vince Lombardi to Broadway.For the first time, the league will help produce a Broadway play, its first venture into live theater. The league will serve as a special producing partner of "Lombardi," which will star Dan Lauria, a regular on the TV show "The Wonder Years" and former college football player and high school coach."Lombardi" is scheduled to open Oct. 21 at the Circle in the Square Theatre. It will be directed by Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail."Football and Broadway are both iconic American forms of entertainment, and the NFL is proud to bring these two unique and passionate audiences together under one roof," said Tracy Perlman, NFL vice president of entertainment marketing and promotions. "Lombardi's charisma and coaching style were legendary - and intensely theatrical. Football fans will learn more about the dramatic private life of the sports hero...
- 4/15/2010
- backstage.com
J. Michael Straczynski is pretty darn prolific. According to the Internet Movie Database, he is currently attached to several projects, including film adaptations of the books "World War Z" and "They Marched Into Sunlight", as well as the sci-fi series Lensman.
Comic Book Resources recently caught up with Straczynski, and the Babylon 5 creator discussed his present slate, as well as the experience of working with the Wachowski Brothers on the upcoming Ninja Assassin. Five weeks prior to shooting, Straczynski was brought on-board to do additional work on Michael Sands’ script. The amount of time it took: 53 hours, including two straight days with only two hours sleep per night.
"I don't know if it's a world record, but yeah, it's true," Straczynski said. "I was lucky to have had a long talk — a couple of hours at least — with the Wachowskis before starting, so we could lock down what it needed to accomplish.
Comic Book Resources recently caught up with Straczynski, and the Babylon 5 creator discussed his present slate, as well as the experience of working with the Wachowski Brothers on the upcoming Ninja Assassin. Five weeks prior to shooting, Straczynski was brought on-board to do additional work on Michael Sands’ script. The amount of time it took: 53 hours, including two straight days with only two hours sleep per night.
"I don't know if it's a world record, but yeah, it's true," Straczynski said. "I was lucky to have had a long talk — a couple of hours at least — with the Wachowskis before starting, so we could lock down what it needed to accomplish.
- 11/23/2009
- CinemaSpy
Lombardi, a new play by Oscar winner and Steppenwolf Theater Company member Eric Simonson, is based on the best-selling biography When Pride Still Mattered, by Pulitzer Prize winning author David Maraniss. Opening on Broadway in the fall of 2010, this original work will bring the audience into the life and times of one of America's most inspirational and mercurial personalities, Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi.
- 11/9/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York (AP) -- Ok, Cheeseheads. Get ready to visit Broadway."Vince," a play about the legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, is planned for New York next season.Producers Tony Ponturo and Fran Krimser say the play by Eric Simonson will open during the fall of 2010. The cast, director and opening date have yet to be announced.Simonson's play is based on David Maraniss' best-selling book "When Pride Mattered." Lombardi coached the Packers from 1959-67, winning five league championships in nine years.He died in 1970 at the age of 57.Copyright 2009 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
- 11/9/2009
- backstage.com
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