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Andre Braugher died on Monday after a short illness. News of his passing wasn’t made available until the following day, prompting an avalanche of tributes to the acclaimed, Emmy-winning actor, who starred on two very different cop shows: the gritty drama Homicide: Life on the Street and the comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He was brilliant on both, and in much else besides, and when people learned of his death, they made sure people knew that.

Among those who mourned Braugher were some of his colleagues. That includes Terry Crews, his fellow Brooklyn Nine-Nine alum.

“Can’t believe you’re gone so soon. I’m honored to have known you, laughed with you, worked with you and shared 8 glorious years watching your irreplaceable talent,” Crews wrote. “This hurts. You left us too soon. You taught me so much. I will be forever grateful for the experience of knowing you.”

Marc Evan Johnson, who played his character’s husband on Nine-Nine, shared a photo of them together on set.

David Simon, who wrote the book Homicide is based on, and which he wrote for, also paid tribute. “Andre Braugher. God,” Simon wrote. “I’ve worked with a lot of wonderful actors. I’ll never work with one better. Stunned and thinking of Ami and his sons and so many memories of this good man that are now a blessing. But too damn soon.”

Fans of Braugher also paid tribute.

Many shared clips of his storied work, including his first appearance as Detective Frank Pemberton on Homicide, which started his seven-year run off with a bang.

And of course, there were lots of Brooklyn Nine-Nine shares, showing he could bring both the yuks and some unexpected gravitas.

Rest in peace, Andre Braugher.

(Via Deadline)

Andre Braugher died on Monday after a short illness. News of his passing wasn’t made available until the following day, prompting an avalanche of tributes to the acclaimed, Emmy-winning actor, who starred on two very different cop shows: the gritty drama Homicide: Life on the Street and the comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He was brilliant on both, and in much else besides, and when people learned of his death, they made sure people knew that.

Among those who mourned Braugher were some of his colleagues. That includes Terry Crews, his fellow Brooklyn Nine-Nine alum.

“Can’t believe you’re gone so soon. I’m honored to have known you, laughed with you, worked with you and shared 8 glorious years watching your irreplaceable talent,” Crews wrote. “This hurts. You left us too soon. You taught me so much. I will be forever grateful for the experience of knowing you.”

Marc Evan Johnson, who played his character’s husband on Nine-Nine, shared a photo of them together on set.

David Simon, who wrote the book Homicide is based on, and which he wrote for, also paid tribute. “Andre Braugher. God,” Simon wrote. “I’ve worked with a lot of wonderful actors. I’ll never work with one better. Stunned and thinking of Ami and his sons and so many memories of this good man that are now a blessing. But too damn soon.”

Fans of Braugher also paid tribute.

Many shared clips of his storied work, including his first appearance as Detective Frank Pemberton on Homicide, which started his seven-year run off with a bang.

And of course, there were lots of Brooklyn Nine-Nine shares, showing he could bring both the yuks and some unexpected gravitas.

Rest in peace, Andre Braugher.

(Via Deadline)

Andre Braugher died on Monday after a short illness. News of his passing wasn’t made available until the following day, prompting an avalanche of tributes to the acclaimed, Emmy-winning actor, who starred on two very different cop shows: the gritty drama Homicide: Life on the Street and the comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He was brilliant on both, and in much else besides, and when people learned of his death, they made sure people knew that.

Among those who mourned Braugher were some of his colleagues. That includes Terry Crews, his fellow Brooklyn Nine-Nine alum.

“Can’t believe you’re gone so soon. I’m honored to have known you, laughed with you, worked with you and shared 8 glorious years watching your irreplaceable talent,” Crews wrote. “This hurts. You left us too soon. You taught me so much. I will be forever grateful for the experience of knowing you.”

Marc Evan Johnson, who played his character’s husband on Nine-Nine, shared a photo of them together on set.

David Simon, who wrote the book Homicide is based on, and which he wrote for, also paid tribute. “Andre Braugher. God,” Simon wrote. “I’ve worked with a lot of wonderful actors. I’ll never work with one better. Stunned and thinking of Ami and his sons and so many memories of this good man that are now a blessing. But too damn soon.”

Fans of Braugher also paid tribute.

Many shared clips of his storied work, including his first appearance as Detective Frank Pemberton on Homicide, which started his seven-year run off with a bang.

And of course, there were lots of Brooklyn Nine-Nine shares, showing he could bring both the yuks and some unexpected gravitas.

Rest in peace, Andre Braugher.

(Via Deadline)

Mathew Knowles, music manager and father of Beyoncé and Solange, is venturing into television. Variety is reporting that his 2017 memoir Racism From The Eyes Of A Child, will be adapted into both a feature film and limited series.

The show and film will arrive by way of a partnership between Knowles and Say Unkel Entertainment. According to Variety, the film will cover the first half of the book, detailing Knowles’ childhood in Alabama in the early ’60s. During this time, the race riots took place in Alabama, and Knowles was one of six black students at an all-white school. In the book, Knowles details his participation in peaceful protests, and recalls being burnt with a cattle prod, as well as getting arrested four times in one day.

The book also covers Knowles and his admiration for key figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Turner, and Ralph Abernathy. Knowles also details his father and his mother, the latter of whom was a classmate of Coretta Scott King.

“These are the men who made me proud and women who taught me to fight back,” Knowles said.

In Beyoncé’s Renaissance documentary, Bey also shares brief anecdotes about her father’s Alabama upbringing, which was also noted on her 2016 single, “Formation.”

Mathew Knowles, music manager and father of Beyoncé and Solange, is venturing into television. Variety is reporting that his 2017 memoir Racism From The Eyes Of A Child, will be adapted into both a feature film and limited series.

The show and film will arrive by way of a partnership between Knowles and Say Unkel Entertainment. According to Variety, the film will cover the first half of the book, detailing Knowles’ childhood in Alabama in the early ’60s. During this time, the race riots took place in Alabama, and Knowles was one of six black students at an all-white school. In the book, Knowles details his participation in peaceful protests, and recalls being burnt with a cattle prod, as well as getting arrested four times in one day.

The book also covers Knowles and his admiration for key figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Turner, and Ralph Abernathy. Knowles also details his father and his mother, the latter of whom was a classmate of Coretta Scott King.

“These are the men who made me proud and women who taught me to fight back,” Knowles said.

In Beyoncé’s Renaissance documentary, Bey also shares brief anecdotes about her father’s Alabama upbringing, which was also noted on her 2016 single, “Formation.”

On Tuesday it was revealed that Andre Braugher, beloved and award-winning thespian, has died after a short illness. He was 61.

Braugher had a storied and diverse career, spanning stage and screen, both big and small. He’s best known, though, for two cop shows, each very different from the other. The first is Homicide: Life on the Streets, the gritty procedural about the Baltimore Police Department, which catapulted him to fame an Emmy. The other is Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a comedy in which he brought the same level of intensity as he had on Homicide, holding his own with seasoned comics like Andy Samberg, Joe Lo Truglio, and Terry Crews.

A graduate of Stanford and Juilliard, Braugher got his start with a meaty role in 1989’s Civil War drama Glory, in which he played an educated freed slave who joins the Union’s all-black regiment.

It was his turn as Detective Frank Pemberton across seven seasons of Homicide that made him a staple of film and TV. He had always welcome supporting roles in Primal Fear with Richard Gere and Edward Norton, in Spike Lee’s Get on the Bus, in City of Angels and Frequency and Poseidon. His last film was She Said, which documented the New York Times investigation that uncovered the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

On TV he appeared in the WWII movie The Tuskegee Airmen, on the TNT drama Men of a Certain Age, and made appearances on the likes of House, New Girl, BoJack Horseman, and The Good Fight. He reprised Pemberton on Law & Order, as his Homicide costar Richard Belzer did.

Braugher also had one of the great voices.

That Braugher was on two big cop shows does not mean he was necessarily pro-cop. Brooklyn Nine-Nine headed into its eighth and final season in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, when a comedy about police no longer seemed so funny. Braugher addressed the “new challenge” facing the show, which had to find a way to tell jokes without parroting false ideas.

“It’s a very complicated subject, but I think they have to be portrayed much more realistically, in terms of this: The convention… that police breaking the law is okay because somehow it’s in the service of some greater good, is a myth that needs to be destroyed,” he told Entertainment Weekly at the time.

Braugher left behind a vast body of work that will be studied and shared for time immemorial. We leave you with some of his most beautiful line readings, of too many to count, from Brooklyn Nine-Nine. RIP to a legend.

(Via Deadline)

On Tuesday it was revealed that Andre Braugher, beloved and award-winning thespian, has died after a short illness. He was 61.

Braugher had a storied and diverse career, spanning stage and screen, both big and small. He’s best known, though, for two cop shows, each very different from the other. The first is Homicide: Life on the Streets, the gritty procedural about the Baltimore Police Department, which catapulted him to fame an Emmy. The other is Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a comedy in which he brought the same level of intensity as he had on Homicide, holding his own with seasoned comics like Andy Samberg, Joe Lo Truglio, and Terry Crews.

A graduate of Stanford and Juilliard, Braugher got his start with a meaty role in 1989’s Civil War drama Glory, in which he played an educated freed slave who joins the Union’s all-black regiment.

It was his turn as Detective Frank Pemberton across seven seasons of Homicide that made him a staple of film and TV. He had always welcome supporting roles in Primal Fear with Richard Gere and Edward Norton, in Spike Lee’s Get on the Bus, in City of Angels and Frequency and Poseidon. His last film was She Said, which documented the New York Times investigation that uncovered the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

On TV he appeared in the WWII movie The Tuskegee Airmen, on the TNT drama Men of a Certain Age, and made appearances on the likes of House, New Girl, BoJack Horseman, and The Good Fight. He reprised Pemberton on Law & Order, as his Homicide costar Richard Belzer did.

Braugher also had one of the great voices.

That Braugher was on two big cop shows does not mean he was necessarily pro-cop. Brooklyn Nine-Nine headed into its eighth and final season in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, when a comedy about police no longer seemed so funny. Braugher addressed the “new challenge” facing the show, which had to find a way to tell jokes without parroting false ideas.

“It’s a very complicated subject, but I think they have to be portrayed much more realistically, in terms of this: The convention… that police breaking the law is okay because somehow it’s in the service of some greater good, is a myth that needs to be destroyed,” he told Entertainment Weekly at the time.

Braugher left behind a vast body of work that will be studied and shared for time immemorial. We leave you with some of his most beautiful line readings, of too many to count, from Brooklyn Nine-Nine. RIP to a legend.

(Via Deadline)

Nikola Jokic has turned into one of the most must-watch athletes in the world. Few athletes in any sport are able to mix Jokic’s size with his total mastery of his game, and whenever he goes into an opposing arena, fans who want to see him lose pay money to watch a genius go to work.

Unfortunately for fans of the Chicago Bulls, their enjoyment of Jokic was cut extremely short on Tuesday night. Jokic and the Denver Nuggets made their way to the Windy City, and late in the second quarter, Jokic took umbrage with a no-call that occurred while he tried to finish through contact from Nikola Vucevic. He expressed his frustrations to the referee, but didn’t really seem to go overboard with it. But despite that, Jokic got a technical foul, and not long after, he was ejected.

As you can hear, the fans in Chicago were pretty upset that their one time getting to see the reigning NBA Finals MVP in their city this year ended so abruptly.

Some credit here definitely goes to Adam Amin and Stacey King, the broadcasters for NBA Sports Chicago who were just as frustrated as anyone in the building that Jokic’s night came to an end. Anyway, I hope any fans in Chicago who paid to watch the officials instead of Jokic on Tuesday night enjoyed getting their money’s worth.

Nikola Jokic has turned into one of the most must-watch athletes in the world. Few athletes in any sport are able to mix Jokic’s size with his total mastery of his game, and whenever he goes into an opposing arena, fans who want to see him lose pay money to watch a genius go to work.

Unfortunately for fans of the Chicago Bulls, their enjoyment of Jokic was cut extremely short on Tuesday night. Jokic and the Denver Nuggets made their way to the Windy City, and late in the second quarter, Jokic took umbrage with a no-call that occurred while he tried to finish through contact from Nikola Vucevic. He expressed his frustrations to the referee, but didn’t really seem to go overboard with it. But despite that, Jokic got a technical foul, and not long after, he was ejected.

As you can hear, the fans in Chicago were pretty upset that their one time getting to see the reigning NBA Finals MVP in their city this year ended so abruptly.

Some credit here definitely goes to Adam Amin and Stacey King, the broadcasters for NBA Sports Chicago who were just as frustrated as anyone in the building that Jokic’s night came to an end. Anyway, I hope any fans in Chicago who paid to watch the officials instead of Jokic on Tuesday night enjoyed getting their money’s worth.

The NBA has cracked down on technical fouls for players hanging on the rim after dunks this season. It’s been a source of frustration for players and fans, because while there have always been rules that are designed to prevent guys from hanging on the rim unless they’re trying to avoid falling in a way that would cause them to get hurt, referees have been quick with T’s this year, even when guys are just trying to be safe.

We got one of those moments on Tuesday night as the Dallas Mavericks played host to the Los Angeles Lakers. Tim Hardaway Jr. dunked in transition, then held onto the rim just a tick too long and got hit with a technical — you can see that there’s a tiny bit of contact from Anthony Davis that looks like it pushed Hardaway forward, and he waited until his momentum brought him backwards before he landed.

It is, to put it bluntly, one of the worst calls you will ever see. And in the immediate aftermath, Reggie Miller of TNT — who is not the kind of person to really tear into referees on a broadcast — said this was the worst technical foul he’s ever seen for hanging on the rim.

“That is terrible by these officials, and for them to have six eyes and not huddle up and correct themselves, that’s terrible,” Miller said.

Reggie Miller is right.