Though Harriet Tubman is best known for her work helping escaped slaves flee north as part of the Underground Railroad in the 1850s, there’s a lot more to know about the abolitionist and humanitarian than that. With U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s announcement on Wednesday renewing interest in the Civil Rights activist, TheWrap has compiled a list of other things you might not have known about the new face of the $20 bill. Her childhood nickname was “Minty,” short for Araminta Born to slave parents Harriet “Rit” Green and Ben Ross, Tubman was originally named Araminta Ross. According...
- 4/20/2016
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
“Fifty Shakes of Grey’s” Dakota Johnson, 24, will star in and co-executive produce an adaptation of “Forever, Interrupted” for Gidden Media and Good Universe. The 2013 novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid tells the story of Elsie Porter, a young woman who, on a rainy New Year’s Day, meets and quickly forms a relationship with the charming Ben Ross. Nine days later, Ben is struck by a truck while riding his bike and dies on impact, leaving Elsie alone to face the mother-in-law she has never met and who knows nothing of her late son’s love life. “Taylor’s book is exquisitely [...]
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- 7/10/2014
- by Alfonso Espina
- UpandComers
ABC/Universal Pictures
One of the most tragic things to have occurred in the realms of television nowadays comes with the loss of the TV movie. I know what you’re probably thinking: “Are you nuts?! TV movies are horrible!” Generally speaking, that’s true. When you pop a made-for-tv flick into your DVD player, there’s a 99.9% chance that you’ve booked in for an evening of boredom: horrible acting, stagey camerawork, a plodding script, and fake-looking special effects. No wonder modern TV stations prefer to stick with sitcoms and reality shows.
However, there is a .1% of TV flicks that defy all logic. Such movies don’t quite measure up to the caliber of a feature film, of course: I mean, how good can your movie really end up being with such a small budget and all those TV executives breathing down your neck? If you’re looking to...
One of the most tragic things to have occurred in the realms of television nowadays comes with the loss of the TV movie. I know what you’re probably thinking: “Are you nuts?! TV movies are horrible!” Generally speaking, that’s true. When you pop a made-for-tv flick into your DVD player, there’s a 99.9% chance that you’ve booked in for an evening of boredom: horrible acting, stagey camerawork, a plodding script, and fake-looking special effects. No wonder modern TV stations prefer to stick with sitcoms and reality shows.
However, there is a .1% of TV flicks that defy all logic. Such movies don’t quite measure up to the caliber of a feature film, of course: I mean, how good can your movie really end up being with such a small budget and all those TV executives breathing down your neck? If you’re looking to...
- 1/29/2014
- by Alan Howell
- Obsessed with Film
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