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Danielle Brooks knows The Color Purple’s Sofia inside out. She spent a year as the boisterous wife in the Broadway revival in 2015, and boasts that she knows everything from the character’s Zodiac sign to the color socks she wore. A decade before her fiery onstage performance, a 15-year-old Brooks admired Felicia P. Fields as Sofia in its initial run on Broadway, whose defiant demeanor made her vulnerable to racial violence. Despite her lifelong ties to the role, she still had to prove herself for the big budget movie…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDanielle Brooks knows how you’re meant to react to an Oscar nomination. The tears. The shock. The “Oh my gosh, I can’t believe it,” the Orange Is the New Black star mimics, dryly. “But,” she says, “I do believe it. This has been a culmination of so many years of hard work and patience; not getting discouraged, not quitting.”The 34-year-old is speaking from New Zealand, where she’s…

Brazilian singer Danielle Fonseca Machado aka Dani Li has died at the age of 42. According to reports, the singer passed away due to complications during a liposuction surgery. The Sun reported that she underwent the operation on Friday. The liposuction was for her belly, and she had also planned a breast reduction; however, she faced severe complications, after which she was rushed to the hospital where she was declared dead. Following the demise of the singer, her husband shared that her burial would take place on…

Things started to go wrong one morning in May. It was 2016 and Danielle Brooks was, by all possible metrics, killing it. Having launched her career in the radical prison dramedy Orange is the New Black, she was starring on Broadway in The Color Purple. That day she was meant to be joining the cast on breakfast TV to perform – the Tony nominations were about to be announced – but she couldn’t make it out of the house, nerves making her feet heavy. She watched instead from home and when her nomination was announced she…

The Minecraft movie is adding more stars to its lineup. Peacemaker star Danielle Brooks, according to Deadline, has been cast in the live-action adaptation in an unknown role, as well as Sebastian Eugene Hansen. The Jared Hess-helmed film, which also stars Aquaman’s Jason Momoa, is set to release on April 5, 2024. Filming is underway in New Zealand and is expected to ramp up by the end of the month. Around the Block An adaptation of Minecraft has been in the works for a while, dating back to 2014. Directors like…

Danielle Jonas, the wife of Kevin Jonas, one of the Jonas Brothers, recently shared her feelings of inadequacy compared to actress Priyanka Chopra, who is married to Nick Jonas. Danielle appeared on the LadyGang podcast alongside her husband, Kevin, where she candidly expressed her emotions. She admitted to feeling inferior in the presence of Priyanka Chopra and Sophie Turner, both of whom are actresses. Danielle opened up about her conflicting relationship with her career, describing it as a “love-hate”. She revealed…

Travis Alabanza’s “vulnerable and urgent” memoir exploring genderqueer identities has won the 2023 Jhalak prize, while a coming-of-age novel by Danielle Jawando has taken the Jhalak children’s and young adult award.Alabanza’s None of the Above and Jawando’s When Our Worlds Collided were announced as winners at a ceremony in London on Thursday. The prizes recognise the best writing by British or British-resident writers of colour.The pair each win £1,000 and a specially created work of art as part of the ongoing Jhalak art…

The Black Women Film Network will honor Danielle Deadwyler, Gina Prince-Bythewood and Tabitha Brown at its eighth annual awards luncheon March 25. Cas Sigers-Beedles, Tammy Williams and Latasha Gillespie will also receive recognition at the in-person event, BWFN Summit, which celebrates the voices of Black women in film and television. Prince-Bythewood will receive RainmakHER award; Deadwyler will be recognized with the Black Woman Rising Award; Brown with the InfluenceHER Award; Gillespie…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFor Danielle Deadwyler, it’s never been about the praise. At the time of our phone call, the 40-year-old actor was days away from receiving a Bafta nomination for her performance in Till and had already scooped Outstanding Lead Performance at the Gotham Awards in November. She is the lead in Chinonye Chukwu’s film about the true story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was…

Photo by Ross Sokolovski on UnsplashA quick experiment at the intersection of Art and ScienceIn this article, I describe a quick experiment that aims to quantify the associations among two seemingly orthogonal sets — basic shapes and primary colors—by using word embedding representations and cosine similarity to test Wassily Kandinsky’s theory of form and color. However, while the use of cosine similarity to measure associations among words is broadly accepted in the natural language processing literature, and while the…