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Octavia Spencer s Production Company Boards HIV Cure Documentary Right to Try (EXCLUSIVE)
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Octavia Spencer has joined “Right to Try,” a documentary short about an HIV cure treatment trial, as a producer through her production company Orit Entertainment. Spencer will produce along with her partner Brian Clisham and creative executive Stephanie Kluft.
The doc, directed by “The Late Late Show With James Corden” producer Zeberiah Newman, tells the story of casting director Jeffrey Drew’s participation in an experimental trial for an HIV cure.
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“The sacrifices and the potential sacrifices that Jeffrey made in an effort to cure HIV, which 38 million people worldwide are battling, is a heroic journey that everyone should know about,” Clisham tells
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TV series such as “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “NCIS” and “Criminal Minds” he has been an inspiration to a younger generation trying to break into the business.
But in interviews with The Times, nine people who worked with Shepperd, 58, painted a different portrait of the artistic director, and two men accused Shepperd of sexual misconduct in incidents spanning 13 years. The men also allege Celebration mishandled complaints about Shepperd’s behavior and ultimately chose to keep him in his leadership position until this week, when the theater announced his termination and said an internal investigation had found credibl
LOS ANGELES — As the longtime artistic director of Celebration Theatre, the city s leading LGBTQ stage, Michael A. Shepperd has been an outspoken advocate for social justice. As a gay
The Blazing World Review: Carlson Young s Exhaustively Art-Directed but Enervating Adult Fantasy The Blazing World Review: Carlson Young s Exhaustively Art-Directed but Enervating Adult Fantasy
Writer-director-star Carlson Young pours much effort and feeling into this loose riff on a 17th-century sci-fi text, but who is it for?
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