They was one of the nation’s premier composers and bandleaders, particularly in the early days of American popular song and theater.
As the Dixie Duo, Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake were the first African American act to perform without darkening their faces with burnt cork in the style of blackface minstrelsy.
During their extensive tours they met Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles, a veteran comedy and dance duo who had gotten their start in theatrics at the historically black Fisk University in Nashville. The two acts joined forces, expanding Miller and Lyles’s sketch “The Mayor of Dixie” (later called “The Mayor of Jimtown”) and adding songs by Sissle and Blake to create the musical Shuffle Along, a pioneer musical featuring Josephine Baker, Florence Mills, Caterina Jarboro, William Grant Still, and Hal Johnson.
The production also helped propel the Harlem Renaissance of the early 20th century.
Do people want me to cover the Menendez brothers case when Monsters premieres? This entire case is breaking my heart so many times, and I am very passionate about Erik and Lyle being set free. I still have a lot to learn and discover about the case, but if this show shines a light on familial incest and male sexual abuse, I am all for that. I really hope that they give this story the dignity that it deserves, because both Lyle and Erik were victims of prolonged sexual abuse by both their parents.
This Day In Hollywood July 22 1959 Ed Wood's cult classic "Plan 9 From Outer Space", called one of the worst films ever, premieres
The film stars Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, and "Vampira" (Maila Nurmi) and is narrated by Criswell. It also posthumously bills Bela Lugosi (before Lugosi's death in August 1956, Wood had shot silent footage of Lugosi for another, unfinished film, which was inserted into Plan 9). Other guest stars are Hollywood veterans Lyle Talbot, who said he never refused an acting job, and former cowboy star Tom Keene.
Netflix celebra la premiere de “Monstruos: La historia de Lyle y Erik Menendez”
El creador, productor y guionista Ryan Murphy y los protagonistas de la serie Cooper Koch, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Chloë Sevigny y Javier Bardem en la premiere el 16 de septiembre de 2024 en Los Ángeles, California.