James Edwards

'James Edwards: African American Hollywood Icon' by Pamala S. Deane

2010-03-18 00:00:00

For much of the 1950s and '60s, Sidney Poitier was the standard-bearer for all of black Hollywood, his stardom held aloft as a beacon of integration and progress. In reality, the movie industry remained largely segregated and out of step with the...

The extreme-right way to make a buck

2008-08-16 00:00:00

The fact that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson's famous friendship recovered from the acrimonious presidential campaigns of 1796 and 1800 is a monument to 18th century detachment and the mysterious power of genuine human fellowship. From those first two...

DeMarco accounts for 5 TDs, ODU outlasts VMI 42-35

2009-11-22 00:00:00

ODU coach Bobby Wilder must not have read the memo that it was Military Appreciation Day at VMI on Saturday. The visiting Monarchs treated their hosts rather rudely, defeating VMI 42-35 in the season finale for both teams. The Monarchs, who won the first...

'Drive the Dream' at O.C. Fairgrounds

2010-07-02 21:02:00

The Childhelp "Drive the Dream" gala debuted last week at the Orange County Fairgrounds and Event Center. Chaired by Patti and James Edwards III, Diana and Chris Miner, and Priscilla and Dick Marconi, the evening was a smashing success, raising more...

Científicos lanzan "macro observatorio" gracias a las redes sociales de internet

2009-06-01 00:00:00

Ask Sam Smith

2006-05-17 12:27:00

This week will be the first day of the rest of the Bulls' lives. Coffee mugs, anyone? The draft lottery is Tuesday night and the Bulls will find out their pick from the Knicks. I'm guessing it's top three, but it could fall as low as five. They need...

Revenge of the Mummy - The Ride

2004-05-24 08:32:44

You know a ride is great when your soul is sucked from your body. Universal Orlando's new psychological thrill ride, Revenge of the Mummy, blends the most advanced coaster technology, animatronics, screen effects and Egyptian art to plunge you into...

'Men in Black'

1997-07-01 00:00:00

Go ahead, admit what you've always suspected: A certain percentage of people met in daily life are so strange, so out-and-out weird, they have to be aliens from another universe. Now, at last, comes a major motion picture that dares to tell you it's all...

Movie review, 'Patton'

2002-07-03 00:00:00

George C. Scott's performance in the title role of the 1970 Oscar-winning bio-epic "Patton" � revived at the Music Box Theatre Wednesday through Sunday � is such a remarkable feat of acting that it may have all but obliterated in the public mind the image...

Oscar-nominated actor Paul Winfield dies

2004-03-09 05:23:00

Paul Winfield, the award-winning actor who came to fame during the renaissance of African American cinema in the 1970s in such films as "Sounder" and "A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich," died of a heart attack Sunday night at Queen of Angels-Hollywood...

James Edwards played on the Detroit Pistons teams that won NBA championships in 1989 and 1990 and the Chicago Bulls team that took home the Larry O'Brien Trophy in 1996. Even though he put up respectable numbers, the photographers must have been focused on some other player on those teams because

2008-06-06 19:31:24

Helen McCain Smith is shown in Washington in this October 1969 file photo. Smith, First Lady Pat Nixon's press secretary during the Watergate scandal and President Nixon's resignation, died of vascular disease on Friday, April 9, 2004. She was 84.

2004-04-15 00:00:00

James Edwards shows his wife, Dotti, where he was when Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941 during a reunion of Pearl Harbor Survivors in Ft. Mitchell, Ky. on Dec. 5, 2000. Edwards was on the USS New Orleans on Dec. 7, 1941 during the Japanese attack.

2000-12-07 06:47:00