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Recently, it seems that our campus been a magnet for Hollywood A-listers, but it wasn’t until last week that one of them decided to truly slum it like a college kid by ditching the usual four-star accommodations for a walk-through in Winthrop. Best known for his roles on “L.A. Law” and “Sex and the City,” award-winning actor, producer, director, and humanitarian Blair Underwood spent last week roaming campus as the Office for the Arts’ Artist in Residence, co-sponsored...

Author: By MARIETTA M COBURN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with Blair Underwood | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...bubble. It’s incumbent upon my wife and I to give them a certain sense of the real world and giving back. Every once in awhile, they want to go somewhere. I took my son to the premiere party of the “Star Trek” DVD release, something I would not usually go to, but he’s a big fan. The day before, I took my daughter to the premiere of “The Princess and The Frog” because she loves Disney...

Author: By MARIETTA M COBURN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with Blair Underwood | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...most challenging is probably, now, directing. I love it, I just haven’t done a lot of it. Next, I guest star on a show called “The New Adventures of Old Christine.” I am shooting that next week. Beyond that, our production company is always raising money to turn the book series that I have into films. We are producing some reality television and creating hopefully something called a vook—a video book. It’s basically taking the experience of a digital book and adding a visual short...

Author: By MARIETTA M COBURN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with Blair Underwood | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...that first paragraph. She thought of Alex and her husband Carlos and her nephew at Fort Hood. She thought about the long parade of the poor who arrive each day at her work seeking care, and she thought about the fact that she was a member of a Gold Star family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Afghan War Through a Marine Mother's Eyes | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...Groomed for greatness from infancy, Woods is the rare phenom to fulfill his promise. He's a multiethnic star with a megawatt smile and what was a clean-living image - qualities he harnessed to become the consummate corporate pitchman, the world's richest athlete for eight years running and the target of unending idolatry. When athletes meet the stratospheric expectations heaped upon them, we have fewer incentives to unwrap their shiny packaging. Now that Tiger's brand has been dented, fans who bought Nikes or quaffed Gatorade at his urging may be channeling their disillusionment into moral outrage. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Down by a Tiger We Never Knew | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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