Archive for February, 2009

Original Northern Soul: The Flamingos!

Flamingos With Black History Month drawing to a close, it feels right to dig into the crates for a little classic Northern Soul.  Straight outta the streets of Chicago, the Flamingos were one of the cleanest, smoothest, most precise doo wop groups on the American scene.  Continue reading ‘Original Northern Soul: The Flamingos!’

Slumdog Revisited: On the Streets of Mumbai part 1!

obamaindiapic.jpgSlumdog Millionaire, the Little Movie that Could, chugged all the way to the Best Picture Oscar at the 81st Academy Awards.  Set in Mumbai, India, the Danny Boyle-directed rags to riches love story captured international interest.  Recently tomorrowpictures.TV was in Mumbai, talking to the people in the street about love, movies and politics!

Slumdog Revisited: On the Streets of Mumbai part 2!

indiablogpic_1.jpg Slumdog Millionaire, the Little Movie that Could, chugged all the way to the Best Picture Oscar at the 81st Academy Awards.  Set in Mumbai, India, the Danny Boyle-directed rags to riches love story captured international interest.  Recently tomorrowpictures.TV was in Mumbai, talking to the people in the street about love, movies and politics!

Hanging with the Pope of Hollywood and Hot Janet Planet at the Oscars!

Pope of HollywoodEvery year tomorrowpictures.TV visits Hollywood Blvd. on Oscar Sunday to check out the scene, and we love the amazing cross-section of people we meet there! This year our hosts DJ T-Rock and the lovely Dara Kenealy ran into everyone from Johnny Depp to Chewbacca! In this episode, T-Rock interviews the high energy Johnny C., from New York, NY, also known as the Pope of Hollywood.

Elvis is in the Building: Dara and T-Rock at the Oscars!

Elvis is in the Building: Dara and T-Rock at the Oscars!
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Dara at the Oscars! Every year during awards week it’s as if every circus in the world has come to Hollywood, and the Boulevard on Oscar Sunday is the Center Ring!  Here’s the lovely and talented duo of Dara and DJ T-Rock getting into all the weirdness with Gold Lamé Elvis, the Goodwill Ambassador of Beverly Hills and the world-famous Blueblocker Rapper!

Japanese Human Tetris at Put Me On!

Human Tetris! PUT ME ON is the show that collects the detritus of the internet and puts it together into one tasty nugget of short attention span theater! In this Very Special Japanese are Nutty episode, game show contestants submit themselves to humiliation and physical harm for your viewing pleasure! Continue reading ‘Japanese Human Tetris at Put Me On!’

Homeless in the 21st Century: Losing Home Part 4

Homeless in the 21st Century: Losing Home Part 4
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Homeless in the 21st Century Losing Your Home.  Out on the Streets.   Homeless.   It used to be a sort of  American Nightmare: the thought that a person could fall so far, so fast to end up living as a transient with no shelter from the Storm.  As more and more people are finding out these days, the fall isn’t nearly as far as they thought, and the person beside them in the soup kitchen line was their neighbor in the suburbs just a few months before… 

Bjork: Big Time Sensuality

Bjork! Bjork.  Just the name makes us smile.  Bjork.  It’s like the sound Moe makes when he bops Curly on the head.  Abstract 3 Stooges references aside, we dig smart, quirky Icelandic singers who proudly wear swan costumes in public.  Call us goofy that way… Continue reading ‘Bjork: Big Time Sensuality’

Amos and Andy: The Antique Shop part 2!

Amos and Andy: The Antique Shop part 2!
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Amos & AndyIt’s Black History Month in America, and the names and faces we celebrate run the gamut from the Inspiring (Thurgood Marshall) to the Tragic (Medgar Evers).  Somewhere in between those two poles lies the Curious Case of Amos and Andy.  Was it a groundbreaking television sitcom that portrayed for the first time normal African-American lives, or was it an impossibly racist depiction of the worst stereotypes of black culture?  Watch this episode from December, 1952 and decide for yourself.

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An Exclusive Interview with the late James Whitmore!

An Exclusive Interview with the late James Whitmore!
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James Whitmore James Whitmore, one of the leading American actors of the post-World War II generation, has passed away in Hollywood after a short battle with lung cancer.  In 2003, tomorrowpictures.TV was fortunate enough to sit down for an intimate converstaion with the actor/activist about subjects ranging from Love and Romance to the Nature of God and the place of Religion in the world today.  Continue reading ‘An Exclusive Interview with the late James Whitmore!’