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Muhammad Ali appeared on British talk show host Michael Parkinson’s show four times. His first visit was in 1971, where he famously asked “Why is Jesus white?” Ali was one of the first black celebrities to openly speak about race. Ali visited “The Tonight Show” in 1972 to promote his match with Bob Foster. He ended up charming Johnny Carson, demonstrating his wit was as fast as his fists. Ali returned to Parkinson’s show in 1974, where he again articulated his thoughts on race and religion. Decades later, Parkinson would remember Ali his most “remarkable” guest. Ali surprised Sylvester Stallone during the.

There’s change and there’s more of the same at the Animation Guild after the Executive elections last night. Like the WGA West and WGA East’s recent elections, it was a largely uncontested vote at the Animation Guild Tuesday. DreamWorks Animation Tech Director Nathan Loofbourrow takes over as the Guild Local Iatse 839’s new President. The former Guild VP and first tech director to be President replaces Bob Foster in the position. Also in an uncontested election, DreamWorks Animation writer and Guild Executive Board member Jack Thomas takes over as the new VP. Without opposition, Steve Hulett was re-elected as Business Representative, a position he has held since 1989. Executive Board member and retake animation editor Karen Carnegie Johnson won the Sergeant-At-Arms job unopposed. No one sought the nomination for the Recording Secretary job and the position will be filled by appointment. The new officers will be sworn in...

Steve Hulett has been elected to his eighth term as Business Representative of the Animation Guild, which is Local 839 of Iatse. He defeated challenger Karen Nugent, a member of the guild’s executive board.

Ballots for contested positions were counted Saturday. Previously, at the guild’s membership meeting Sept. 28, executive board member Bob Foster was elected without opposition as the guild’s president, replacing Kevin Koch, who stepped down after three terms. Also elected without opposition were vp Earl Kress, recording secretary Jeff Massie and sergeant-at-arms Jan Browning, all incumbents.

For the guild’s executive board, six incumbents were re-elected: Bronwen Barry, John Cataldi, Nicole Dubuc, John Cataldi, Karen Carnegie Johnson and Cathy Jones. Also elected was Nathan Loofbourrow, who served on the board in the 2004-07 term, and four newcomers: Gordon Kent, Mike Roth, Chris Simmons and Jack Thomas.

The Animation Guild represents about 2,800 animation artists, writers and technicians...

The Boys in the Photograph is the new Andrew Lloyd Webber/Ben Elton musical, and it is currently enjoying its' final week at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre.  An original musical about a group of friends playing on a Catholic football team around the time that various conflicts started between the Protestants and Catholics in Ireland, this musical has enjoyed great success in Toronto.  Tony LePage plays John Kelly, the male lead and character whom the show is centered around.  Mr. LePage was kind enough to sit down with Bww and give us some insight into what it is like being in this production.

First, congratulations on the success of The Boys in the Photograph! How have you been enjoying the run so far?

It has been a pretty magic run.  When we first started doing the show out in Winnipeg we didn't even know if we were going to be...