News about Billy Dee Williams

Billy Dee Williams defended the right of actors to portray characters using Blackface while chatting with Bill Maher. The 87-year-old Star Wars actor dropped by Maher's podcast Club Random in an episode released Sunday on its YouTube channel. When the subject turned to Laurence Olivier's portrayal of the title role in the 1965 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, Williams was delighted at what he saw as Olivier's parodies of stereotypes associated with Black people.

Billy Dee Williams, a veteran of the Hollywood Rebellion, has opened up about his struggle with gay rumors in the 1970s. The 86-year-old actress, who admitted to philandering early this month, had another confession: she said she did not care if people assumed he was homosexual during his heyday in Hollywood. On Sunday, he spoke out about the gay rumors that may have ended his acting career with Page Six, including: "I've been called a 'Closet Queen.' However, I don't pay much attention to any of that stuff.'

Billy has made no secret of his turbulent personal life over the years. Infidelity has played a role in the breakdown of all three of his marriages, as well as fatherhood. But the actor has now dished yet more dirt on his love life in his new memoir titled What Have We Here? Portraits of a Life. The book, which will chronicle his seven-plus decades, openly addresses his association with threesomes, orgies, and an open marriage as well as revealing that'sparks flew' with Diana Ross. Billy Billy wrote about his wild love life here.

Billy Dee Williams, a veteran of Star Wars, has opened up about his infidelity. The 86-year-old actor, who is writing a memoir about his nearly eight-decade career, spoke openly and directly about being a ladies' man and the part that cheating has played in his life. It all started at an early age,' he said in a People magazine on Wednesday, 'I'm always falling in love.' Billy admitted that although he struggled with school, he achieved great success in both art and romance, but he truly hit his stride when he co-starred Diana Ross in a 1972 biographical drama film.

Billy Dee Williams is releasing What Have We Here?, looking back on his glittering, almost eight-decade career in show business. Star Wars fans adore the 86-year-old for his role as the silver-tongued Lando Calrissian, the head of the airborne settlement Cloud City. Billy Dee twirls about on the recently published front page of What Have We Here? He's wearing a cape that is clearly reminiscent of the one he wore in the sci-fi franchise. He told People that he realised how absurd my life has been at times in writing the autobiography. And how grateful it has been. Those memories were amusing. I hope it brings back memories for readers, too.' Knopf, the publishers, said the book would explore a career'unchecked by bigotry and typecasting so rife in the predominantly white sector in which he excelled.'

Contrary to popular belief, Black cinema was rich and plentiful before the burgeoning of blaxploitation films in the late 1970s and '70s. "Is That Black Enough For You?! "What" a recent Netflix documentary that premiered on September 11th, not only gives these films their flowers, but it also highlights the cultural revolution behind Black cinema, which has often gone unheard. "Is That Black Enough For You?" says archived footage and interviews with Black film legends such as Whoopi Goldberg, Laurence Fishburne, Samuel L. Jackson, and others. Elvis Mitchell, a filmmaker and historian, explores the splendor of Black creators in film, from the beginnings of the 1900s to the 1970s — from their roots in the early 1900s to the modern era of the '70s. Mitchell tells POPSUGAR that it took him nearly 23 years to bring his kaleidoscopic film to life. Alain Locke's lectures at Harvard University in 2002 sparked a lot of his research. Nearly two decades later, he worked with filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, David Fincher, and Netflix to inform a crucial part of Black cinematic history that he wasn't told.