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Michael Beasley Follows His Pops John Beasley as a TV-Film Actor, Son’s on a Roll with a String of Small and Big Screen Projects, including ‘Steel Magnolias’

    Actor John Beasley is by now a fixture in television, film, and theater.  What you  may not know is that his son Michael Beasley is charting a career path that may soon surpass his fathe… more →

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Michael Beasley Follows His Pops John Beasley as a TV-Film Actor, Son's on a Roll with a String of Small and Big Screen Projects, including 'Steel Magnolias' — 1 comment

leoadambiga wrote 7 months ago:     Actor John Beasley is by now a fixture in television, film, and theater.  What you  ma … more →

Tags: film, Television, Entertainment, John Beasley, writing, Movies, Omaha, John Beasley Theater & Workshop, michael beasley

Gabrielle Union Takes Serious Turn in BET Drama 'Being Mary Jane' and PBS Documentary 'Half the Sky' — 4 comments

leoadambiga wrote 7 months ago: Gabrielle Union.  She’s hard to ignore because of her beauty, intelligence, confidence, grit, … more →

Tags: African American culture, Entertainment, film, Gabrielle Union, Hollywood, Movies, Omaha, Television, writing

Gabrielle Union Takes Serious Turn in BET Drama 'Being Mary Jane' and PBS Documentary 'Half the Sky' — 4 comments

leoadambiga wrote 7 months ago: Gabrielle Union.  She’s hard to ignore because of her beauty, intelligence, confidence, grit, … more →

Tags: African American culture, Entertainment, film, Gabrielle Union, Hollywood, Movies, Omaha, Television, writing

Jane Fonda Comes Home — 8 comments

leoadambiga wrote 10 months ago:     LATEST UPDATE:  Jane Fonda shares her thoughts about her weekend in Omaha on her blog … more →

Tags: film, Alexander Payne, writing, Cinema, Omaha Community Playhouse, Film Streams, Jane Fonda

John Beasley Has it All Going On with a New TV Series, a Feature in Development, Plans for a New Theater and a Possible New York Stage Debut in the Works; He Co-stars with Cedric the Entertainer and Niecy Nash in TVLand's 'The Soul Man' — 7 comments

leoadambiga wrote 11 months ago: Film-television-stage actor John Beasley is someone I’ve been writing about for the better par … more →

Tags: African American culture, Television, Entertainment, John Beasley, writing, Comedy/Humor, Athol Fugard, Cedric Entertainer, Niecy Nash

Dena Krupinski Makes Her Hollywood Dreams a Reality as a Turner Classic Movies Producer — 9 comments

leoadambiga wrote 1 year ago: Whether you’re a regular or occasional visitor to this blog you have by now probably noticed t … more →

Tags: film, Jewish Culture, Television, Entertainment, writing, Movies, Hollywood, Omaha, Turner Classic Movies

Filmmaker Steve Lustgarten Proves He Can Come Home Again — 2 comments

leoadambiga wrote 1 year ago: The first film story I ever had published was about an Omaha native filmmaker not named Alexander Pa … more →

Tags: film, writing, Movies, Screenwriting, Steve Lustgarten, leo films, American Taboo, power slide, Vampz

Tempting Fate: Patrick Coyle Film 'Into Temptation' Delivers Gritty Tale of a Working Girl and an Idealistic Priest in Search of Redemption — 2 comments

leoadambiga wrote 1 year ago: Yet another Nebraskan in Film doing laudable work is writer-director and sometime actor Patrick Coyl … more →

Tags: film, writing, Movies, patrick coyle, into temptation, Jeremy Sisto, kristin chenoweth, Minneapolis

Alexander Payne Delivers Graceful Oscar Tributes – The Winner for Best Adapted Screenplay Recognizes Clooney, Hemmings and His Mom — 3 comments

leoadambiga wrote 1 year ago: Alexander Payne‘s love affair with the movies began when he was a child in his hometown of Oma … more →

Tags: film, Alexander Payne, writing, Cinema, Movies, Hollywood, Screenwriting, Oscar Winners, The Descendants

My Forthcoming Book, 'Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film, A Reporter's Perspective, 1998-2012,' Due for a Fall 2012 Release — 9 comments

leoadambiga wrote 1 year ago: My Forthcoming Book, ‘Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film, A Reporter’s Perspective, 19 … more →

Tags: film, Alexander Payne, AUTHORS/LITERATURE, writing, Cinema, Movies, Leo Adam Biga, Books, Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film

Nebraska Legislature Once Again Wrestles with the Film Tax Incentives Question; Alexander Payne and John Beasley Press the Case Home — 3 comments

leoadambiga wrote 1 year ago: George Clooney in Up in the Air (some airport scenes shot at Omaha’s Eppley Airfield terminal) … more →

Tags: film, Alexander Payne, Business, John Beasley, writing, Hollywood, Politics, Film Tax Incentives, film tax credits

Joan Micklin Silver's Classic 'Hester Street' Included in National Film Registry — 5 comments

leoadambiga wrote 1 year ago:   Women feature filmmakers were fairly abundant at the start of motion pictures but by the time … more →

Tags: film, Jewish Culture, joan micklin silver, writing, Cinema, Hollywood, Hester Street, National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board

John Beasley, Actor – Journeyman Discusses Life in Film-Television-Theater and Striving for In-the-Moment Believability — 2 comments

leoadambiga wrote 1 year ago: I have spun a lot of words about actor John Beasley and I expect I will be spinning many more as tim … more →

Tags: Entertainment, film, John Beasley, John Beasley Theater & Workshop, Movies, Television, writing, fences, Marlin the Magician

Living the Dream: Cinema Maven Rachel Jacobson – the Woman Behind Film Streams — 7 comments

leoadambiga wrote 1 year ago:     Since its late 2007 start Film Streams has given Omaha a much-needed and celebrated in … more →

Tags: Alexander Payne, Entertainment, writing, Entrepreneurial, Cinema, Movies, Film Streams, Rachel Jacobson

Oscar-Winner Alexander Payne and Kaui Hart Hemmings on the Symbiosis Behind His Film and Her Novel 'The Descendants' and Her Role in Helping Him Get Hawaii Right — 11 comments

leoadambiga wrote 1 year ago: Oscar-winner Alexander Payne and Kaui Hart Hemmings on the Symbiosis Behind His Film and Her Novel … more →

Tags: film, Alexander Payne, writing, Cinema, Screenwriting, Oscar Winners, Books, Film Streams, The Descendants

From the Archives: About Payne - Alexander Payne on 'About Schmidt,' Jack Nicholson and the Comedy of Deep Focus — 9 comments

leoadambiga wrote 1 year ago:     From the Archives: About Payne - Alexander Payne on ‘About Schmidt,’ Jack … more →

Tags: film, Alexander Payne, writing, Screenwriting, Omaha, Books, From the Archives, About Schmidt, Jack Nicholson

The Cut Man: Oscar-Winning Film Editor Mike Hill — 3 comments

leoadambiga wrote 1 year ago: The number of Nebraskans working in or on the fringes of the film industry is in the hundreds.  I kn … more →

Tags: film, writing, Cinema, Hollywood, Oscar Winners, Omaha, Mike Hill, Dan Hanley, Ron Howard

From the Archives: Conquering Cannes, Alexander Payne's Triumphant Cannes Film Festival Debut with 'About Schmidt' — 13 comments

leoadambiga wrote 1 year ago: Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson at Cannes     From the Archives: Conquering Cannes, Ale … more →

Tags: film, Alexander Payne, writing, Screenwriting, Omaha, Books, From the Archives, About Schmidt, Jack Nicholson

From the Archives: About ‘About Schmidt’: The Shoot, Editing, Working with Jack and the Film After the Cutting Room Floor — 14 comments

leoadambiga wrote 1 year ago:     From the Archives: About ‘About Schmidt’: The Shoot, Editing, Working with Jack and th … more →

Tags: film, Alexander Payne, writing, Cinema, Screenwriting, Omaha, Books, From the Archives, About Schmidt


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