Lee Daniels to make movie musical based on his own life

Edit IMDb 30 Sep 2016
Lee Daniels, the Oscar-nominated director of Precious, The Butler, The Paperboy and TV series Empire, is to make an autobiographical movie musical ... I’ve come from the projects....

Lee Daniels to make musical about Lee Daniels

Edit Empire 30 Sep 2016
In an interview with Billboard, the director of Precious, The Paperboy and The Butler let slip that he is currently “in talks” on an autobiographical musical project ... he told the magazine ... “I’ve come from the projects....

News from The Guardian - Film News

Edit IMDb 30 Sep 2016
The director of Precious, The Butler and the TV series Empire is at work on a film with original songs about his turbulent past. Lee Daniels, the Oscar-nominated director of Precious, The Butler, The Paperboy and TV series Empire, is to make an autobiographical movie musical....

Mid & East Antrim Welcomes Paperboy-Turned-Peacebuilder for Evening of Storytelling (Mid and East Antrim Borough Council)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Sep 2016
Jacqueline Irwin, Chief Executive of the Community ... Guests also had the opportunity to hear from the paperboy-turned-peacebuilder on his experience in promoting reconciliation and building peace and listened as the celebrated author read an excerpt from his bestselling novel, 'Paperboy'....

Leonardo DiCaprio’s New Movie Takes on Climate Change One Newsboy Hat at a Time

Edit New York Magazine 28 Sep 2016
In his new National Geographic documentary, Before the Flood, Pussy Posse founder and erstwhile Coachella paperboy Leonardo DiCaprio travels the world investigating the global climate crisis, accompanied always by his signature newsboy cap. Which begs the question. Is our leading celebrity environmentalist simply recycling...More » ... ....

Warren Watch: 77-year paper carrier was Buffett’s kind of guy

Edit Omaha World-Herald 25 Sep 2016
Edward Kastelic carried daily papers for 77 years, a possible world record that caught the attention of another former paperboy. Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc ... ....

Midcounties Co-op: the unlikely paper ‘boys’ fighting for their rights

Edit The Guardian 25 Sep 2016
Two newspaper deliverers in their 60s who won payouts are part of a new wave of later-life workers in the ‘gig economy’. Rodney Sharpe, 64, and Roger Lilley, 66, might seem about 50 years too old to be paperboys, but they are representative of more and more people in their 60s taking part-time, casual or self-employed work ... Hard-working and experienced with full careers in the workforce behind them, they can make effective recruits....

Bengaluru-based startup Hashtaag laps up $1mn in angel funding

Edit Your Story 22 Sep 2016
The funding would enable the firm to hire better talent, build better products and expand operations further in India and globally ... Hashtaag also has an office in San Francisco, California which caters to serial entrepreneurs in the US ... Hashtaag is the mobile app development partner of apps such as Doors, Shouut, Paperboy, FaceChat, Curiocty, and Logoon– all owned by popular celebrity icons and serial entrepreneurs....

Theater review: 'Newsies' rises above the fold in OKC Broadway launch

Edit The Oklahoman 22 Sep 2016
But director Jeff Calhoun, composer Alan Menken, lyricist Jack Feldman and book writer Harvey Fierstein revamped this story about a bunch of hardscrabble paperboys who stood up to the powerful Joseph Pulitzer, and made it into a rousing success. “Newsies” is a true story ripped from the headlines ... But he soon becomes the ringleader who initiates the strike. The momentum that inflames that uprising finds a nice parallel in the musical....

Truett-Hurst, Inc. Reports Results for the Fiscal Year 2016 Ended June 30, 2016 (Truett Hurst Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Sep 2016
THST), which operates an innovative and fast growing super-premium and ultra-premium wine sales, marketing and production company based in the acclaimed Dry Creek and Russian River Valleysof Sonoma County, California, reported results for the fiscal year 2016 which ended on June 30, 2016 ... Consolidated gross margin from continuing operations was 32.1%, an increase of 2.3% over the prior year....

Is this a golden age for black TV makers or another false dawn?

Edit The Guardian 21 Sep 2016
With the success of shows such as Atlanta, Empire and Queen Sugar, diversity on TV is supposedly finally here, but history has provided plenty of false starts ... Of course, that’s sort of the problem here, isn’t it? Isn’t it peculiar that the best black TV show of all time was created by a white man? ... Earn’s cousin, the underground rapper Paper Boi – tragically unrelated to the Paperboy responsible for the song Ditty – sells drugs....

Yesterday’s Papers

Edit Slate 19 Sep 2016
Its name suggests a slower-moving past, when much still depended on the morning thump of fresh-printed broadsheets landing on doorsteps ... That enterprising writer could read the papers the moment they went online in the wee hours, summarize their lead stories and other juicy pieces, and post this briefing on Slate before the paperboys could toss physical copies onto driveways in Middle America’s cul-de-sacs ... the papers themselves....

Hillsborough: Liverpool boycott of The Sun wins council backing

Edit BBC News 15 Sep 2016
A campaign calling on retailers in Liverpool to stop selling The Sun has received the unanimous backing of city councillors. The newspaper has been widely boycotted in the city due to its coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans ... "One Liverpool man who always bought it for the horses not the news cancelled it because he was worried about the paperboy being seen delivering it."....
×