Word: brandon
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...Madonna, Toni Braxton and others--produced it with his wife Tracey. Fox 2000 head Laura Ziskin gave the project the green light just days after reading the screenplay. The film was a labor of love for Tracey Edmonds, who was pregnant throughout preproduction and gave birth to a son, Brandon, shortly before shooting began. Says she: "Kenny and I had the same vision and the same tastes. Most people expect that if you make a movie with your husband, it would ruin your marriage, but thank God we did it together because it consumed four months of our lives...
...movie's center is a wise child: Ahmad, 10, brings the warring family together. As Ahmad, Brandon Hammond is superb: his serious eyes are alert, his bearing natural. He points the film up the road it should have taken. Didn't, though. The dialogue plays like song cues without the songs, and the rest of a talented cast is wasted. Soul Food aims to be a banquet of feelings, but mostly it serves up tripe...
...DIED. BRANDON TARTIKOFF, 48, NBC's programming wunderkind who gave the peacock network reason to strut; of Hodgkin's disease; in Los Angeles. Only 31 when he became NBC's entertainment president in 1980, Tartikoff turned the struggling network into The Place To Be with such hits as The Cosby Show and Hill Street Blues. (See Eulogy below...
...last saw BRANDON TARTIKOFF in June, when we met for a drink in Los Angeles. He had just come through a brutal series of chemotherapy sessions (battling a recurrence of the cancer that had first struck him when he was 23), but was eager to do what he always loved--talk about TV. Walking into the bar of the Four Seasons Hotel, he looked gaunt and thin, a baseball cap covering his bald head. It took real guts to show up at this sybaritic show-biz haunt so boldly announcing his illness. But for Tartikoff, it was a statement...
DIED: Former NBC Entertainment wunderkind Brandon Tartikoff, of Hodgkins disease. He had recently been undergoing chemotherapy for his third recurrence of Hodgkins disease. Tartikoff in 1980 became the youngest entertainment president in network history when he took over NBC at age 30. In just a few years he took a network that was a laughing stock, and moved it to the top of the prime-time heap, by programming such shows as "L.A. Law" and "The Cosby Show." In March of this year, Tartikoff moved to the Internet and America Online to help develop the service's entertainment content...