By Lucy Mangan May 31, 2019 Director Ava DuVernay doesn’t spend long establishing the normality of the lives of young teenagers Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam, Korey Wise and Raymond Santana. Where others might have chosen to insist upon it, she takes it as a given – as the boys did, before that fateful night …
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By Peter White May 22, 2019 EXCLUSIVE: The life of Benny Binion, the cowboy, gangster, killer who created the World Series of Poker, is being turned into a scripted series after Argo producer Tim Headington’s company Ley Line optioned the rights to a biography about him. The production company and financier, which Headington launched with former music industry exec Theresa Steele …
By Daniel Fienberg May 21, 2019 Ava DuVernay restores names to the Central Park Five in ‘When They See Us,’ a Netflix miniseries marked by powerful moments and the superb cinematography of Bradford Young. Those are the five Harlem teens who were arrested, convicted and imprisoned in the 1989 rape of a jogger, only to …
By Corey Kilgannon May 3, 2019 It’s possible that John (Chickie) Donohue, 77, has told his “greatest beer run ever” story in every bar in Inwood over the years. Now the saloon tale will be seen on the big screen. The story — how a patriotic bartender’s suggestion prompted Mr. Donohue to make a daring …
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