The 7th Annual Ed Asner & Friends Poker Tournament Celebrity Night was sold out and a huge success raising in excess of $150,000 in much needed funds for The Ed Asner Family Center, (Teafc) dedicated to helping differently “abled” individuals with autism, developmental delays and other special needs and their families.
Ed Begley Jr and Ed Asner
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Approximately 500 guests, including celebrities, friends and members of the entertainment industry, attended this year’s star-studded event which took place on Saturday, June 1, 2019 at the CBS Radford Studio soundstages where The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Lou Grant Show, both which starred Ed Asner, were taped.
Emmy-winning actor and autism advocate Ed Asner, who has a son and grandson on the autism spectrum, hosted the event and was joined by Don Cheadle (Avengers: End Game), Thomas Gibson (Criminal Minds), Peter Gallagher (Grace and Frankie), Max Burkholder (Parenthood), Richard Schiff...
Ed Begley Jr and Ed Asner
Credit/Copyright: Craig Mathews PR
Approximately 500 guests, including celebrities, friends and members of the entertainment industry, attended this year’s star-studded event which took place on Saturday, June 1, 2019 at the CBS Radford Studio soundstages where The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Lou Grant Show, both which starred Ed Asner, were taped.
Emmy-winning actor and autism advocate Ed Asner, who has a son and grandson on the autism spectrum, hosted the event and was joined by Don Cheadle (Avengers: End Game), Thomas Gibson (Criminal Minds), Peter Gallagher (Grace and Frankie), Max Burkholder (Parenthood), Richard Schiff...
- 6/6/2019
- Look to the Stars
Stars: Dominique Purdy, Sheila Tejada, John Mead, Joseph Ansalvish, Richard Assad, Julian Bane, Mayank Bhatter, Joni Bovill | Written by Dominique Purdy | Directed by Paul Sapiano
What to say about Driving While Black..? A dark comedy spending a week in the life with a young black male living in Los Angeles, having to deal with the trials and tribulations of racial profiling. Making that job interview is ten times harder when he is always being pulled over for being young and black. Doesn’t sound much like a comedy right? But a comedy Driving While Black most certainly is!
Dimitri (Dominique Purdy) is a young 20 something black male living in La. He is a talented artist who is getting all manner of grief from his mum and overbearing girlfriend about his dead end pizza delivery job and his unrealistic dreams of becoming and actual paid artist, when all he really wants to do is smoke weed…...
What to say about Driving While Black..? A dark comedy spending a week in the life with a young black male living in Los Angeles, having to deal with the trials and tribulations of racial profiling. Making that job interview is ten times harder when he is always being pulled over for being young and black. Doesn’t sound much like a comedy right? But a comedy Driving While Black most certainly is!
Dimitri (Dominique Purdy) is a young 20 something black male living in La. He is a talented artist who is getting all manner of grief from his mum and overbearing girlfriend about his dead end pizza delivery job and his unrealistic dreams of becoming and actual paid artist, when all he really wants to do is smoke weed…...
- 1/2/2018
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
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