By Terrance Afer-Anderson
For 12 weeks, prolific local playwright Terrance Afer-Anderson has been writing and publishing weekly editions of his first novel RESURRECTION: A Love Story in The New Journal and Guide. Now he is about to cease publishing and focus fully on completing his book. Over the last few months, NJ&G readers have been introduced to a host of engaging, well drawn characters that populate this compelling work of fiction.
By Kam Williams
Film Critic
“I love pizza. Who doesn’t? The idea of this book started to form after I completed a six-month journey into true pizza obsessiveness…
From the beginning, I decided this book was not going to be simply a Zagat-like guide to New York pizzerias… It was going to be two books in one--profiles of at least twenty pizza personalities, then honest reviews of as many pizzerias as I could visit.
You’ll learn a lot in this book [like] what kinds of cheese and tomatoes and ovens pizzerias use… If it opens your eyes to the great big pizza world out there, makes you suddenly crave a couple slices, or leads you to embark on your own sleepless search for the city’s best pizza, then I did my job.”
-- Excerpted from the Introduction (pgs. 1-3)
By Kam Williams
Film Critic
Melvin James Kaminsky was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on June 28, 1926, but found fame under the stage name you know him by, Mel Brooks. He started out in showbiz as a jazz drummer while still in his early teens, but encountered more success on stage alone upon trying his hand at stand-up at the urging of the owner desperately in need of a fill-in comedian at a resort up in the Catskills.
In a star-studded cast The Butler gives us a look at the life of Cecil Gains who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made according to IMDB.com.
The movie will be coming out in October of 2013.
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By Kam Williams
Film Critic
Richard Williams was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana where he was left traumatized by having a railroad spike driven through his leg for refusing to behave deferentially towards a gang of white racists. Understandably, that experience played a significant role in shaping the youngster into the highly-ambitious and fiercely-overprotective father he would later become.