by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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BLACK AMERICA AND COVID-19 - Crisis or... :
From TheVox: (May 8th) - Social distancing arrests target people of color.
From YahooNews: A tale of two parks: Enjoying the sun in wealthy Manhattan, social distancing under police scrutiny in the Bronx
From YahooGMA: (4/28) - Rana Zoe Mungin, a 30-year-old teacher from Brooklyn, died on Monday, April 27th for COVID-19. She had twice been denied a test for the coronavirus after showing symptoms. Her family and friends blame racial disparity in the health care system.
From RSNWashPost: How COVID-19 is a perfect storm for Black Americans.
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From NBCNews: Because COVID-19 is NOT killing enough black people fast enough for some people... Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT worker, was killed in a botched police raid on the part of the Louisville Metro Police Department.
From ABCNews: This article has a picture of the three Klansmen... I mean Louiville police officers who slaughtered Breonna Taylor.
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From NewYorkTimes: Because COVID-19 isn't killing enough black people fast enough for some people... a timeline in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
From YahooSports: NBA superstar and champion, LeBron James, speaks on the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. "We're literally hunted everyday," James says.
From YahooSports: NFL champion and Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback, Tom Brady, signs letter on Ahmaud Arbery.
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From USAToday: Because COVID-19 isn't killing enough black people fast enough for some people... Dreasjon "Sean" Reed was killed by the Indianapolis Metro Police Department on May 7th.
From TMZ: Cops joke about "closed casket" funeral after killing Sean Reed.
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19 NEWS:
From CDC: The Centers for Disease Control has a "COVID Data Tracker."
From YahooNews: Why does COVID-19 kill some people and hardly affects others?
From YahooNews: Yahoo has a dedicated page of links updating news about COVID-19.
From Deadline: The news site "Deadline" has a dedicated page for news about coronavirus and the film, TV, and entertainment industries.
From TheNewYorker: The venerable magazine has a dedicate COVID-19 page free to all readers.
From YahooNews: Re: the federal government's response to COVID-19: What if the most important election of our lifetime was the last one - 2016?
From YahooLife: What is "happy hypoxia?" And do you have this COVID-19 symptom?
From JuanCole: Remeber when President Donald went crazy and suggested that we ingest household cleaning supplies and UV light to fight COVID-19. Here is the video and commentary from Juan Cole.
From RSN: Former U.S. Secretary of Labor (under President Bill Clinton), Robert Reich, list the new "class divides" with their inequalities that he says the COVID-19 pandemic has created.
From Grist: The scientists that saw coronavirus coming are hunting for the next pandemic.
From YahooNews: Senate majority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (Republican of Kentucky) blames former President Obama for current President Donald's piss-poor response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 OBIT:
From CNN: Entertainer and magician, Roy Horn, has died at the age of 75, May 8, 2020 of complications of COVID-19. Horn was best known as one-half of the Las Vegas animal and magic act, "Siegfried & Roy," with his partner Seigfried Fischbacher.
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:
MOVIES - From Deadline: Oscar-winner Danny Boyle is set to direct Micheal B. Jordan in the film, "Methuselah," which is based on the Biblical character.
MOVIES - From Deadline: Warner Bros. is remaking director Blake Edwards' 1979 comedy, "10," which originally starred Julie Andrews, Dudley Moore, and Bo Derek.
MOVIES - From Variety: Universal Pictures has tapped Luca Guadagnino ("Call Me By Your Name") to direct its reboot of the film "Scarface." Joel Coen and Ethan Coen wrote the latest version of the script.
DISNEY - From Variety: Disney+ is in the early stages of developing the "Percy Jackson" book series as a live-action series. Fox previously produced two live-action films based on the books by Rick Riordan.
MOVIES - From CNN: Russell Crowe's thriller, "Unhinged," gets a July 1st, 2020 release date. This may make it the first new film to arrive in movie theaters during the pandemic.
DISNEY - From Deadline: Disney+ will stream a filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, "Hamilton." beginning July 3, 2020. Director Tommy Kail, who also directed the musical, comprised the film version by shooting three live performances of the musical. Disney paid $75 million for the worldwide rights to the movie.
From GQ: Robert Pattinson shot his own cover for the latest "GQ" magazine and its "A Dispatch from Isolation" interview with him. He talks about a number of things including his role in "The Batman" and his struggle to describe the plot of Christopher Nolan's "Tenet."
From THR: For its Fall 2020 schedule, Fox is picking on "L.A.'s Finest," a scripted original series for cable provider, Spectrum.
From Deadline: Ryan Murphy is working on an anthology spinoff of his hit FX series, "American Horror Story." It will be titles "American Horror Stories."
From Variety: There will be no Cannes Film Festival this year - even in the fall.
From Deadline: Not even a basket of horrid "X-Men" can stop writer-producer Simon Kinberg's career trajectory. Netflix has picked up his heist spec script, "Here Comes the Flood," for deal in the mid-7 figures.
From Deadline: Kal Penn talks about CBS' 2020-2021 TV sequel to the 1991 Oscar-winning film, "Silence of the Lambs."
From Deadline: CBS has picked up three new series for next season: The Equalizer reboot starring Queen Latifah; "Silence of the Lambs," sequel "Clarice," starring Rebecca Breeds; and the Chuck Lorre-Marco Pennette multi-camera comedy, "B Positive," headlined by Thomas Middleditch and Annaleigh Ashford.
OBITS:
From Deadline: Veteran film and television character actor, Fred Willard, has died at the age of 86, Friday, May 15, 2020. Willard was known for playing a long list of roles in various comedic films ("Best in Show" and "How High" to name a few) and television series ("Fernwood 2 Night" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" to name a few). On IMDb, Willard has 311 credits. He will be seen posthumously in the upcoming Netflix comedy, "Space Force," with Steve Carell.
From THR: The comedian and actor, Jerry Stiller, has died at the age of 92, Monday, May 11, 2020. He is best known for TV series. First is for the recurring role of "George Costanza's" father, "Frank," on the NBC series, "Seinfeld" (1989-1998), from 1993 to 1998. The second role is that of series regular, "Arthur Spooner," on CBS' "The King of Queens" (1998 to 2007). Decades ago, Stiller was best known for being part of the comedy team of Stiller and Meara with the late Ann Meara, who would become his wife. The couple had two children, actor and filmmaker, Ben Stiller, and
From Essence: Noted R&B and soul singer, Betty Wright, has died at the age of 66, Sunday, May 10, 2020. Noted for her use of the "whistle register," Wright had a number of hit songs. His signature single was "Clean Up Woman" (1974), a top 10 hit on "Billboard" magazine's "Hot 100" and "R&B" charts. In 1975, she had a hit with what is called a "proto-disco" song, "Where is the Love?" She won a "Best R&B Song" Grammy Award for composing the song with Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch of "KC & the Sunshine Band." Wright was also a prolific and prominent background vocalist who performed on recordings for a number of popular recording artists, including Gloria Estefan, Stevie Wonder, and David Byrne, to name a few.
From RollingStone: One of the founding fathers of rock and roll music, Little Richard, has died at the age of 87, Saturday, May 9, 2020. He combined blues and gospel music to create a thrilling new sound, and his flamboyant and gender-bending persona helped to create the sound and spirit of a new art form, rock and roll or rock 'n' roll music. His best known recordings included "Tutti Frutti" (1955), "Long Tall Song" (1956), and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" (1958). In 1986, Little Richard was among the first inductees of the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."
From RollingStone: Little Richard wrote this tribute to himself in 2010 for "Rolling Stone's" "100 Greatest Artists" issue.
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