Octavia Spencer

Film+TV
July 11, 2013
Fruitvale Station Makes a Man Out of a Martyr
Blogs
January 23, 2013
Sundance 2013: America's Black Indie Film Renaissance
You could hear a pin drop during the first Sundance screening of writer-director Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale, an enormously powerful and moving debut feature based on the shooting death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant by Oakland transit police in the early hours of New Year's Day, 2009. Coogler opens the fi ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2012
L.A. Versus New York Fashion: Elle's Joe Zee Weights In
L.A. and New York are both known for their unique fashion -- and fashion disasters. And in the latest season of his Sundance Channel show, All on the Line, Elle magazine creative director Joe Zee has to deal with it all. More like Gordon Ramsay on Kitchen Nightmares than Project Runway mentor, Tim ... More >>
Blogs
February 26, 2012
Academy Award Winners Haven't Included Latino Actors, Nonwhite Actresses in 10 Years
Updated at the bottom: The Oscars broke the 10-year spell. Only days after the voters behind the Academy Awards were revealed as extremely white (94 percent), male (77 percent) and old (median age, 62), the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center issued a report indicating that Oscar winners seem to r ... More >>
Stage
May 25, 2006
Theater Reviews
Including this week's pick, The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer-Trash Housewife
Stage
May 25, 2006
The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife
And weekend theater reviews