News about Mario Van Peebles

After being found guilty of a string of violent sexual crimes, NBA talent and 'Semi-Pro' actor Rashid Byrd has been sentenced to 90 years in jail.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 3, 2024
Byrd, a veteran of the NBA's D-League (now G-League), with the Lakers' D-Fenders and Rockets' Vipers, was sentenced to four years in prison since his deposition in 2020 in Los Angeles. Los Angeles and Santa Clara Counties police officers said their probe revealed "a string of violent sexual crimes between 2015 and 2020," according to a tweet released by the police chief on the same day as Byrd's arrest.'

Chinese actor Galen Yuen - who appeared alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger - has a secret past as a San Francisco gangster

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 24, 2023
Galen Yuen, a 55-year-old boy who died in 2015, established himself as a minor role stalwart during the 1980s, when he appeared alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger. But before becoming a spian, Yuen was a founding member of the Suey Sing gang in Chinatown, pimping out sex employees and carrying a pistol. Yuen battled heroin use and went to prison when he was forced into a life of crime in the 1960s. Since his niece, journalist Maya Lin Sugarman, began a podcast about his life, the late actor's unknown past has gained renewed attention.

18 of Pamela Anderson's Candid Netflix Documentary's Top Revelations

www.popsugar.co.uk, February 1, 2023
In a recent candid Netflix documentary, Pamela Anderson is finally sharing her side of the tale. "Pamela, a Love Story" by Ryan White and produced by Anderson's brother, Brandon Thomas Lee, explores the fullness of her life. For the first time, the film gives new information about her work, love life, and more, straight from the source — including her sons, Brandon, 26, and Dylan, 25. Netflix bills the documentary, which premiered on Jan. 31 as "Love, Pamela," Anderson's memoir, as an "intimate and humanizing portrait of one of the world's most popular blonde bombshells," as well as noting Anderson's life and career "from small town girl to international sex symbol, actress, and doting mother." Not only does the documentary highlight Anderson's ascension to fame as a Playboy model-turned-actor, but also include diary entries that detail the traumatic events she suffered as a child. It delves into other key aspects of Anderson's life, including her celebrity, Tommy Lee's sex tape, the men she's courted over the years (which include Mario Van Peebles and Kelly Slater), how Hulu's "Pam & Tommy" series retraumatized her decades later, and, of course, the constant talk about her body in the media.

"Is That Black Enough For You?!? "For His Ode to Black Cinema, the producer of Tapping Movie Icons."

www.popsugar.co.uk, November 15, 2022
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.

In TikTok's lands, a Kentucky man who gained internet fame 'posing as a dead body' has landed a role as a corpse

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 24, 2022
Since being cast to play a dead man on CSI, Josh Nalley, 42, from Kentucky, has become an expert at acting 'dead'. Since earning national attention on social media for posing as a corpse, he earned his role on CBS' famous CBS show CSI: Vegas. Josh said in an interview with USA Today that he didn't even know'his 'un-alive' skits were finally getting acknowledge from producers. The restaurant manager confirmed that he had received multiple offers from other music video and low-budget movie developers, but that he is considering his options. Josh announced that he would continue working as a manager and continue to produce TikTok videos that see him playing 'dead'.