News for
Angela Robinson (III) More at IMDbPro »

2009 | 2008 | 2005

9 articles from 2009

---

Visibility Matters: Entertaining the Future

25 October 2009 9:30 PM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

Visibility Matters is a monthly-ish column by AfterEllen.com Founder Sarah Warn about larger trends affecting lesbian/bi women in entertainment and the media.

Visibility Matters: Entertaining the Future

Lesbian/bi visibility in entertainment today is a mass of contradictions. It's both better and worse than it was when I started writing about it more than seven years ago.

There are more lesbian talk show hosts than ever before on network TV, but still very few fictional lesbian characters on broadcast or cable TV.

We now have well-developed, prominent lesbian characters and superheroes in comics — from Willow to Batwoman — but even the most minor lesbian characters are missing from, or "straightened out" in, most studio theatrical releases. Sometimes an entire lesbian subculture is de-gayed, as demonstrated in Whip It.

Female musicians are coming out left and right as gay or bisexual, as we saw when Brandi Carlile finally confirmed last week that she's a lesbian, »

- sarahwarn

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Ask AfterEllen.com (September 29, 2009)

28 September 2009 10:40 PM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

Want to know the status of a particular movie, TV show, or band? Wondering what a certain actress is up to these days? Send your entertainment-related questions to askafterellen@gmail.com — with your first name, city and country — and we'll try to answer as many as we can.

Question: I absolutely loved Linda Villarosa's book, Passing For Black. I was wondering if she's working on another novel.

― Janay, Detroit, Mi

Linda Villarosa

Answer: Linda Villarosa is a busy woman, but I tracked her down and asked her to give us the scoop on how she'll be following up on the success of her first novel:

Thank you for asking! I have another novel in my head but that's the only place it is right now. I'm teaching writing and media studies full time at City College in New York, so my time is short these days.

And I'm co-writing a »

- karman

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Tyler Perry to write and direct a feature film version of "For Colored Girls"

7 September 2009 2:53 PM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

A few months ago I wrote about Jasmine Guy directing a stage version of Ntozake Shange's famous 1976 play For Girls Who Have Committed Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf in Atlanta this summer.

Now Lionsgate has announced a feature film version of the play to be adapted, directed and produced by Tyler Perry.

Tyler Perry plans to tell us about black women's experiences

Yes, that Tyler Perry — the man who made $125 million last year by bringing us movies like Madea Goes to Jail, the latest in his popular franchise of wacky-grandma movies he has written, produced, and starred in.

Because there's nothing funnier than movies starring a black man in a dress — especially to all the talented black actresses who can't get good roles if their names aren't Halle Berry, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, or Beyoncé.

Perry as Madea in Madea Goes to Jail

To be fair, Perry has »

- sarahwarn

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Review of "And Then Came Lola"

24 August 2009 1:51 AM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

And Then Came Lola is a sugar rush of a lesbian movie.

Starring Ashleigh Sumner, Jill Bennett,and Cathy DeBuono, and directed by Ellen Seidler and Megan Siler, it plays out like a twisty, lighter Run Lola Run with a massive dose of queerness.

Lola (Sumner) is a laid back photographer who’s on the verge of a romantic breakthrough with her new girlfriend, Casey (Bennett), who is the straitlaced Bert to Lola’s Ernie. As the film begins, we witness a fantastic sex scene between the two dissolve into a dream, as Lola’s phone interrupts her reverie. It’s Casey, and she needs Lola to pick up a set of all-important prints for a crucial business meeting with Danielle (DeBuono), who also happens to be Casey’s ex-girlfriend.

Lola runs out the door &#8212 quite literally &#8212 and encounters a tragic-comedy of obstacles keeping her from being punctual the one time she needs to be. »

- danieller

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Spoiler Guy – HBO's Hung For The Month of August

15 July 2009 9:17 AM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »

Next month on HBO's daring new Comedy Hung, Ray (Thomas Jane) returns home to find his family murdered and uses his special forces training to go on a murderous revenge spree.  Okay, I made that up, and I know I will score no points with the comic geeks but Thomas Jane was my favorite Punisher.  Now, as for what will really happen in this new series concerning an economically embattled divorcee who turns to using his enormous penis to turn things around – not literally, although they seem to insinuate he could – read on.

Just look at some of these titles: Do it Monkey, You Cum Just Right, The Indelible Stench.  You can't tell me the Hung producers aren't in touch with some of the unsavory realities of poor Ray's gig.  Ick.

On a serious note, if you have not watch Hung yet – you really should.  It's as exploitative as you would think it could be, »

- SpoilerGuy

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Ask AfterEllen.com (May 19, 2009)

18 May 2009 8:15 PM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

Want to know the status of a particular movie, TV show, or band? Wondering what a certain actress is up to these days? Send your entertainment-related questions to askafterellen@gmail.com — with your first name, city and country — and we'll try to answer as many as we can.

Question: Is it true? There is going to be a Girltrash! movie? We've read on Killola's page that Lisa is starting shooting in October so it must be true and she also hinted that the whole cast is going to be back in. Do you know anything more? Isn't this exciting?

― Nathalie, Toronto

Answer: Yes, the rumors are true, and, yes, also exciting! For official confirmation, I checked in with Girltrash! creator Angela Robinson, and here's what she told me:

We are in talks with producers to shoot a (very low budget) Girltrash! movie in December, starring the original cast, plus some new characters. »

- karman

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Power Up! opens itself up to gay men

18 May 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

If you've seen Itty Bitty Titty Committee or D.E.B.S., you've seen the fruits of Power Up!'s labor. Power Up! is a lesbian-film based non-profit organization that raises funds to put out films by gay female directors, writers and actors. Both Itty director Jamie Babbit and Angela Robinson (D.E.B.S.) are on the honorary board of directors, in good company with the likes of Debra Chasnoff.

Now Power Up! has made a new surprising move: They are opening up the organization to gay men as well. Founder and executive director Stacy Codikow released a statement regarding why she felt that it was time to bring men into the organization:

With the current climate, Power Up saw this as a time, more than any other, where our Glbtq community - Women & Men - needs to be unified to help achieve our collective goal of equality, representation and acceptance. Power Up knows that »

- Trish Bendix

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Remember D.E.B.S? Ready For a Sequel Comic Book Series?

14 January 2009 8:00 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Angela Robinson’s D.E.B.S was like Charlie’s Angels, So Close or maybe Totally Spies! but, well, gay.  Robinson is a lesbian and has tackled issues of gender representation, stereotyped sexuality and gay and lesbian relationships in most of her films - the notable exception being the Lindsay Lohan vehicle Herbie: Fully Loaded (and I can see the comments making that connection for you is going to provoke already, though I just wanted to make the ‘vehicle’ pun).

The film was quite unlikely, in some respects, being developed by Screen Gems from a pretty bold and ‘out’ original short that Robinson had garnered a nice streak of success with at festivals.  Not a surprise of the same order as Sony seeing a short about some homosexual kickboxers and greenlighting a feature spin-off but, at the time, it gave me pause none the less.  By all acounts, however, »

- Brendon Connelly

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Ask AfterEllen.com (Jan. 6, 2009)

5 January 2009 9:14 PM, PST | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

Taking a page from our friends at AfterElton.com, who have a weekly entertainment column called "Ask the Flying Monkey," we're introducing a weekly column to answer your entertainment-related questions.

Want to know the status of a particular movie, TV show, or band? Wondering what a certain actress is up to these days? Want to know if someone is openly gay? (We won't out anyone, but we'll let you know what they've said publicly.)

Send your questions to askafterellen@gmail.com — with your first name, city and country — and Karman Kregloe and I will try to hunt down the answers for you (we'll trade off writing this column each week). Not all questions will be answered, and it may take a few weeks to answer some of them, but we'll try to get to as many as we can.

Note: this isn't a personal advice column — please post your dating »

- sarahwarn

Permalink | Report a problem

---

2009 | 2008 | 2005

9 articles from 2009

---