The natural sequel to working on Fosse/Verdon. Lin-Manuel Miranda wants to be a part of it: New York, New York. According to Deadline, the Hamilton creator is working on a new Broadway musical alongside John Kander, who wrote music for classics like Chicago and Cabaret with his late collaborator Fred Ebb. The project is very loosely based on Martin Scorsese’s 1977 film New York, New York, which starred Liza Minnelli as a singer and Robert De Niro as a saxophone player, and had songs by Kander and Ebb (including, obviously, “New York, New York” — real ones know it’s originally Liza’s song, not Sinatra’s! Read More...
OKLAHOMA CITY — A judge for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma ruled in favor of citizenship for two descendants of Black slaves once owned by tribal members, potentially paving the way for hundreds of other descendants known as freedmen.
District Judge Denette Mouser, based in the tribe's headquarters in Okmulgee, ruled late Wednesday in favor of two Black Muscogee Nation freedmen, Rhonda Grayson and Jeff Kennedy, who had sued the tribe's citizenship board for denying their applications. Read More...
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Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, who was suspended indefinitely after a video surfaced earlier this year that showed him hitting his then-fiancee, has won an appeal and will be reinstated by the NFL.
In a statement issued by Rice later, he thanked his wife, Janay and acknowledged that he had "made an inexcusable mistake" and that he meant to "improve myself and be the best husband, father and friend, while giving back to my community and helping others to learn from my mistakes. Read More...