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[[tmz:video id="0_svsnf839"]] Jim Brown is softening his opinion on Colin Kaepernick's kneeling demonstration -- telling TMZ Sports he's decided he's "fine" with NFL players protesting during the national anthem. The NFL legend had previously lashed out against the protesters back in August -- saying, "I'm an American. I don't desecrate my flag and my national anthem." But that was months ago ... and when the Cleveland Browns icon was leaving Mastro's Steakhouse in Bev Hills on Sunday,...

[[tmz:video id="0_kuqzzf0g"]] Jim Brown ain't ready to give up on the Cleveland Browns just yet ... 'cause the NFL legend tells TMZ Sports he "absolutely" believes the Brownies can get at least one win this season. We spoke with the Hall of Famer outside Il Pastaio in Bev. Hills about the 0-8 Browns ... and while it might seem impossible to Cleveland fans, J.B. has faith the team will turn things around. While Brown didn't have much to...

Jamie Foxx will be working once again with Ray helmer Taylor Hackford as he has joined the cast of his latest film project Signal Hill. The cop scandal drama was written by David McMillan and Foxx will join the previously cast Anthony Mackie as attorney Johnnie Cochran, and Elizabeth Banks as an investigative newspaper reporter who investigated and broke stories on the coverup.

Long before he defended O.J. Simpson in the trial of the century, Cochran established himself as a legal superhero because of his unrelenting pursuit of justice in the Signal Hill police brutality case in 1981.

Foxx will take on the role of Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt. He was a former Black Panther party leader and Vietnam vet who was convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison for 27 years. Cochran was the lawyer who helped Pratt to settle a false imprisonment suit for $4.5 million back in 1992. The news comes from Deadline,...

[[tmz:video id="0_kwtmmnqb"]] Jim Brown tells TMZ Sports he's got a big problem with the 8-year-old football team that took a knee during the national anthem this week ... saying, "I thought that was exploitation." The NFL legend has previously spoken out against Colin Kaepernick's national anthem demonstration and feels the kids who emulated him in Illinois on Sept. 17 were manipulated by coaches and parents.  "I don't personally do anything against my country, against my flag, against my national anthem,...

[[tmz:video id="0_41igoquj"]] Shannon Sharpe says he "1,000% wholeheartedly disagrees" with every word Jim Brown said about Colin Kaepernick ... telling TMZ Sports he's incredibly disappointed in the NFL Hall of Famer. As we previously reported, Jim spoke out Against Colin's national anthem protest -- saying he would never disrespect the anthem by taking a knee -- and told Colin he needs to choose whether he wants to be an activist or a football player. The comments Definitely didn't sit...

Jim Brown says he Wants to support Colin Kaepernick's cause -- but admits he would Never disrespect the national anthem by taking a knee during a game. Brown opened up about Kaep to The Post Game ... saying, "I want to be in his corner, and I do think, 'God bless him' -- but noting, "Colin has to make up his mind whether he's truly an activist or he's a football player." "Football is commercial.

In The Show, a thriller directed by Giancarlo Esposito (of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul fame), Josh Duhamel plays Adam Rogers, a reality show host who finds himself in an unusual situation.

Rogers is a Chris Harrison-like figure who hosts a dating show that ends in an attempted murder, wherein the runner-up tries to shoot and kill the winner.

As a result of Rogers' quick thinking, he is heralded as a "national hero" (here, James Franco plays an excitable morning show host who heaps praise on Rogers), and...

Thursday’s parole board hearing marks the latest twist in the saga of O.J. Simpson‘s fall from grace, which began in 1994 with the killing of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman.

Prior to the killings, Simpson, now 70, was an American hero, his former prowess on the football field matched by his charm as a celebrity pitchman and actor. But after the slayings, in which Simpson quickly became the suspect, details about rage-filled fights with his ex-wife that were fueled by jealousy began to emerge.

In 1995, after the “Trial of the Century,” Simpson was famously acquitted of double murder,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of NFL Hall of Famers that his approach to peace is "no different" from how a football player prepares for victory ... be strong or else. The meeting was arranged by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft -- who's leading a team of NFL legends including Joe Montana, Jim Brown and Jerome Bettis on a goodwill trip to Israel.  Part of the trip was a meeting with Netanyahu...

[[tmz:video id="0_ncpxragt"]] Jim Brown is a huge fan of LeBron James -- saying he's not only a "great champion" ... but a hero off the court.  We saw the Cleveland Browns legend at Lax Monday and asked for his thoughts on LeBron's home getting vandalized with racist graffiti. Brown boiled it down to a matter of right and wrong.  Then Brown showered the Cavs star with praise -- and shot down any comparison to himself of Muhammad Ali ... saying quite simply,...

Some filmmakers are notorious control freaks who forbid improvisation on set and want everything to go exactly according to their vision. Quentin Tarantino is one of those filmmakers.

During a stop at The Howard Stern Show this month to promote his new Fox game show “Beat Shazam,” Jamie Foxx reminisced on just how controlling Tarantino could be by quoting one of his moments on the set of “Django Unchained.”

Read More: The ‘Django Unchained’ Cheat Sheet: 10 Things That Will Help You Understand Tarantino’s Referential Bloodfest

Tarantino, who Foxx lovingly refers to as a “tyrant” on set, did not like the way the actor was interpreting Django. Instead of playing a long-suffering slave at the beginning of the movie, Foxx was leaning into the character’s coolness, much to the disapproval of Tarantino. Let’s just say the director made sure Foxx got the message.

According to Foxx’s spot-on impersonation,...

[[tmz:video id="0_1at2vkzx"]] Jim Brown's teenage son is following in his father's footsteps ... as a killer lacrosse player -- and TMZ Sports has the video! Fyi, Jim has been hailed as one of the Greatest lacrosse players of all time (in addition to that whole NFL Hall of Fame thing) ... and it's clear his son, Aris, has his father's gifts. Aris is a sophomore at Sierra Canyon High School in L.A. where he's already crushed a...

Showtime is developing a scripted limited series centered on boxing icon Muhammad Ali’s conscientious objection to the Vietnam War draft. In 1967, a dozen of the nation’s top black intellectuals and athletes — including Jim Brown, Bill Russell and Lew Alcindor (soon to become Kareem Abdul Jabbar — gathered to vet Ali’s stance on the issue. Eventually, the group supported his cause. “The Ali Summit” explores the intersection of civil rights and sports that continues to resonate today, and tracks the FBI’s crusade against Ali, Brown and other black leaders in the lead-up to Ali’s arrest for draft evasion at the peak.

[[tmz:video id="0_quknzyph"]] Call him the eternal optimist ... but Jim Brown says he sincerely believes the Cleveland Browns can turn things around next year.  The NFL legend was leaving Craig's in West Hollywood when he spelled out why the Browns won't be a smoldering dumpster fire in 2017.  For what it's worth, we shot Robert Griffin III a few weeks ago and he told us he's more motivated than ever to rack up some Ws next season.  [[tmz:video id="0_2vmwz0gm"]] Read more...

Rapper T.I. believes that Donald Trump is meeting with people like Kanye West, Steve Harvey, Martin Luther King III and Jim Brown in order to appeal to African-Americans — and divide them. The rapper aka Tip uploaded a series of videos to his social media account on Monday in which he called on the black population to not accept invitations to meet with the President-elect — because even if the meeting seems friendly, there’s always a hidden agenda. “I’m gonna tell all you celebrities — black, minority, all of you, athletes — there’s a strategic plan that people are trying to make.

The immensely popular trio provides an extremely pleasant eighty minutes of musical nostalgia – with plenty of full performances but also the full variety of their music through the years. Interviews with the principals give us the back story, light but not superficial, while film clips show their political activism through the years.

50 Years with Peter Paul and Mary

DVD

Mvd Visual

2014 / B&W + Color / 1:33 flat full frame / 78 min. / Street Date December 9, 2016 / 19.95

Starring Peter Yarrow, Noel (Paul) Stookey, Mary Allin Travers.

Film Editor Pat Murphy

Produced by Jim Brown, Heather A. Smith

Directed by Jim Brown

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

When we watch movies about music groups we can be looking for historical and personal insights, or we could just want happy nostalgia, to hear the music and see our favorites as they appeared through the years. Many of us instantly recognize groups from the 1960s when we hear them,...

[[tmz:video id="0_tlrbep5n"]] N.Y. Giants star Jonathan Casillas thinks Jim Brown and Ray Lewis' meeting with Donald Trump was a great idea 'cause it opened up lines of communication with the soon-to-be prez. Casillas -- a 2 time Super Bowl champ -- is aware of the Trump haters ... but says, like it or not, he's gonna be Potus, so America must get behind him. "We have to accept him and we gotta be able to support some...

LeBron James is ending 2016 on an impressive note.

This year alone, the Cleveland Cavaliers star pledged a $2.5 million donation to the Muhammad Ali exhibit at the recently opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, announced he’ll be the executive producer of an HBO documentary on Muhammad Ali, spoke out multiple times on gun violence and social justice and, on Monday night, accepted his second Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year award (the only other athlete to do so is Tiger Woods).

“It’s never about the individual,” James, 31, said during his acceptance speech at...

Three sports legends who have battled racial inequality for decades are set to receive the Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award.

Recognized for their incredible athletic achievements as well as their social activism, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jim Brown and Bill Russell will be honored at Si‘s Sportsperson of the Year event on Dec. 12.

“In 2016, we learned that the consequences of speaking out on hard issues were often painful ones, but also how deeply athletes can impact and advance the conversation on those same, hard issues. Jim Brown, Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar all recognized, and acted on this in a far harder time in America,...

Bounce TV has unveiled plans for Brown Sugar, a subscription-video-on-demand streaming service with a large collection of African-American movies. The service, which launched Thursday, features an extensive library of iconic black cinema, unedited and commercial free, such as “The Mack,” “Foxy Brown,” “Shaft,” “Dolemite” and much, much more.

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Brown Sugar curates its extensive library into a series of fun themes for the enjoyment of its consumers, such as “War in Harlem,” “Foxy Mamas,” “Jive Ass Turkeys” and “Good Cop, Bad Cop.” The films in question also feature many actors that were emblematic of the era, including Jim Brown, Richard Pyror, Billy Dee Williams, Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, and more.

Actors Fred “The Hammer” Williamson and Pam Grier, as well as rapper and producer Rick Ross, act as the official ambassadors of the service and tout its bona fides.

Over the weekend, Tim Burton’s adaptation of the novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by author Ransom Riggs hits theaters. Reviews are tepid but not 2016 summer blockbuster bad. With its PG-13 rating and lack of significant demographic competition at the cinema, the box office draw could be decent. All that has to happen is for no one involved in the film to say something horrible and/or racist. Dammit, Tim Burton! When speaking to The Bustle about Miss Peregrine, the topic of on-screen diversity came up. After all, with the exception of Samuel L. Jackson as the villainous Barron, the film is very white. Tim Burton had…words…to say: “Nowadays, people are talking about it more […]things either call for things, or they don’t. I remember back when I was a child watching The Brady Bunch and they started to get all politically correct, like,...

Interested in having 84 Ounces of solid gold hanging around your crotch??? You're in luck ... because Ken Stabler's legendary "Hickok Belt" just hit the auction block.  The belts were given away to the top U.S. athlete from 1950 to 1976 -- and feature 84 ounces of solid gold with a 3 carat diamond, 3 carat ruby, 3 carat sapphire and 26 diamond chips.  Stabler was the Last person to win the belt -- following his spectacular '76 season in which he...

The 2016 Espy Awards opened with a powerful Black Lives Matter message from four of the biggest names in the NBA. Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James took the stage on Wednesday to spread a message of love and acceptance during a week riddled with gun violence and fear - including the shooting of 12 police officers at a Dallas Black Lives Matter march and the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Anthony, a forward on the New York Knicks, opened with a statement on behalf of Paul, Wade and James. "The four of us we cannot ignore...

The 2016 Espy Awards opened with a powerful Black Lives Matter message from four of the biggest names in the NBA. Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James took the stage on Wednesday to spread a message of love and acceptance during a week riddled with gun violence and fear - including the shooting of 12 police officers at a Dallas Black Lives Matter march and the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Anthony, a forward on the New York Knicks, opened with a statement on behalf of Paul, Wade and James. "The four of us we cannot ignore...

On Friday morning, following the murders of five police officers in Dallas during protests over the killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, NBA star Carmelo Anthony took to Instagram and asked other athletes to take a stand with him. “I’m all about rallying, protesting, fighting for Our people,” he wrote. “Look I’ll even lead the charge, By Any Means Necessary.” In the post, which invoked Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Anthony included a picture of the famed 1967 Cleveland summit where black athletes including Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Jim Brown voiced their support of Muhammad Ali and his.

Jim Brown did it big for his 80th bday Thursday night -- with tons of Huge Stars showing up to party ... and toasting the NFL legend with some of the most expensive booze at the bar!  It all went down at the St. Regis in San Fran -- where stars like Ray Lewis, Emmitt Smith, Ronnie Lott, Ludacris and Swizz Beatz and more partied at the event thrown by Haute Living.   But the highlight was...

Johnny Manziel still has one strong supporter in Cleveland ... the greatest Browns player of all time, Jim Brown ... who says he wants his team to Keep Johnny Football ... no matter what.  "To be honest, I don't want to see him traded or anything like that," Brown said at the 16th Annual Greater Cleveland Sports Awards.  "I just never feel that's the answer to anything. But that's my opinion and I don't expect you to feel that way.

Legendary Browns running back Jim Brown switched to defense Tuesday ... coming to the rescue of Johnny Manziel ... saying his partying ways won't keep him from being great. Brown appeared on "The Herd" on FS1 ... and when guest host Jason Whitlock turned the topic to Johnny Football ... Jim seriously gushed about the young Qb. Manziel has yet to fully win over the Cleveland fan base ... so an endorsement from the franchise's most celebrated player is a Big deal.

It even comes with an overture and intermission! It was too square for late sixties audiences but seen now it plays like a relic from the fifties, as comfortable as an old shoe and just as unfashionable. Shrewd casting paired Hollywood icon Rock Hudson with newly minted action star Jim Brown and 60’s cult favorite Patrick McGoohan in the leads.

A joke Clint Eastwood made at Caitlyn Jenner's expense will not air during the broadcast of Spike TV's Guys' Choice 2015 Awards next month.

While pre-taping the ceremony on Saturday night, Eastwood, 85, was introducing actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and remarked on the San Andreas star's transition from athlete to actor. According to USA Today, Eastwood then reportedly compared Johnson's career leap to those of "Jim Brown and Caitlyn Somebody."

The show, which was filmed at Sony Pictures Studio in Culver City, California, was dubbed "unpredictable" by Spike TV in press materials, USA Today reported.

The joke will be...

Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood isn’t immune to flops, as evidenced by a joke the director made at Caitlyn Jenner’s expense on Saturday during the taping of Spike TV’s “Guys Choice Awards.” Eastwood was on hand to present a trophy to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and during his introduction, the legendary actor-director referenced other athletes who went on to acting careers. “ Jim Brown or Caitlyn-somebody,” Eastwood said, referring to the former Bruce Jenner who revealed her female form last week on the cover of Vanity Fair. The joke failed to amuse the crowd, which included Salma Hayek, Jake Gyllenhaal,...

Clint Eastwood's Caitlyn Jenner quip is being forced off Spike TV's lawn. According to USA Today, the network plans to cut a joke Eastwood made about Jenner in the "Guys' Choice" awards broadcast that airs June 18.

The event itself was held Saturday night. When introducing Dwayne Johnson for an award, Eastwood compared The Rock to former athletes who have become actors, "like Jim Brown and Caitlyn Somebody..." USA Today heard from David Schwarz, Spike TV senior vice president of communications, who confirmed Eastwood's quote and said, "We will remove the reference in the version that will air."

Censorship. But Spike can do what it wants with its content. In that way, it's like Comedy Central cutting Paul Walker jokes from Justin Bieber's roast, although of course Caitlyn Jenner is still alive, it's a very different kind of sensitivity. It's a shame, though, because it's only going to...

Johnny Manziel has a Big Big supporter in his camp -- Cleveland Browns legend Jim Brown ... who says he still believes the young Qb ... and explains why the water bottle incident was no big deal.  The 79-year-old NFL Hall of Famer was at Book Soup in L.A. supporting his friend Lea Black when we asked about the drama surrounding Manziel.  "He's doing the right thing. His intentions are great," Brown said ... "He went to...

Cinema Retro issue #32 has now shipped worldwide to subscribers. Subscribe or renew your subscription today and help support the world's most unique film magazine!

Highlights Of Issue #32 Include:

Ray Morton looks at the revivals of King Kong beginning in the 1960s, with special emphasis on his two-part report on the making of the 1976 big budget remake.  Howard Hughes takes an in-depth look at the making of 100 Rifles  starring Raquel Welch, Jim Brown and Burt Reynolds. Matthew Field interviews iconic producer Anthony Waye about his work on the Star Wars and James Bond series.

Ernie Magnotta goes overboard and analyzes the merits of Orca, The Killer Whale Tim Greaves goes undercover to examine the Charles Vine spy films of the 1960s and talks with star Tom Adams. Adrian Smith interviews screen sex siren Caron Gardner and reviews Our Man in Marrakesh (aka Bang! Bang! You're Dead!) Raymond Benson's Top Ten...

Johnny Manziel is getting some major support from the greatest Brown of them all ... Jim Brown ... who tells TMZ Sports he's proud of the Qb for extending his stay in a treatment program.  The Cleveland Browns legend was leaving Craig's in West Hollywood last night when he told us, "I think [Manziel] made a great move to go into therapy ... I'm very happy for him." Fyi -- the Browns recently announced that Manziel has decided to...

It's Martin Luther King Jr day here in the USA - which means, TV programming highlights on the "black experience" in America, amongst other kinds of celebrations. While flipping through TV channels this morning, I had to stop on TCM (Turner Classic Movies), thanks to an image of Jim Brown, in a sheriff's hat, in the drivers seat of an oldie of some sort. Not immediately certain of what the film was, I of course looked it up - Ralph Nelson's 1970 crime drama "...tick...tick...tick...," which starred Brown as an African American man elected sheriff of a racially-divided rural county in Mississippi. Elected thanks to a healthy turnout of black voters, he finds himself, as...

Boxing great Muhammad Ali was hospitalized with a mild case of pneumonia that was caught early and should result in a short hospital stay, an Ali spokesman said Saturday night. The three-time world heavyweight champion, who is battling Parkinson's disease, is being treated by his team of doctors and is in stable condition, said his spokesman, Bob Gunnell. "He went into the hospital this morning," Gunnell said in a phone interview. "He has a mild case of pneumonia and the prognosis is good." His daughter, Laila Ali, Tweeted Sunday that her father was doing well and thanked everyone for the positive thoughts.

Mandingo, a 1975 movie based on the best-selling period potboiler by Kyle Onstott about sexual shenanigans between masters and slaves on the Falconhurst slave-breeding plantation, was savaged by critics who saw it as nothing but degrading, big-budget exploitation. Roger Ebert called it “racist trash”, a “piece of manure”, and “excruciating to sit through”. Mandingo certainly had it all; brutal violence, interracial sex, rape, infanticide, lynchings, and abundant nudity including full-frontal shots of it’s male star, boxer Ken Norton. But of course it was a huge hit and inspired a brief run of “slaverysploitation” films such as Passion Plantation (1975 aka Black Emmanuelle, White Emmanuelle ) and the cleverly titled Mandiga (1976). Mandingo was overwrought melodrama to be sure, but it’s a model of subtlety compared to its official sequel, the more lascivious Drum, a mean-spirited trash epic from 1976 that would never fly in today’s politically correct climate. Despite its spaghetti western trappings,...

“I Guess it wasn’t the dove!”

Exciting news for movie lovers, gastronomes, and bubble-headed men from Mars! After a brief hiatus, Movies for Foodies, a regular film series put on by Chef Liz Schuster and the other talented chefs at Tenacious Eats, is back in a new location and a fresh slate of films to write menus around. Enjoy a five-course gourmet meal (and five unique cocktails from Eclipse Mixologist Seth Wahlman) while enjoying one of your favorite movies! That’s the Tenacious Eats way! The movie starts at 8pm. The doors open at 5:30 for the pre-show which includes an hour of Super-8 Movie Madness!

The hot new locale is The Loop – specifically the main dining room at Eclipse, on the ground floor of the Moonrise Hotel in the University City Loop (6177 Delmar Boulevard, St Louis, Mo 63112). The next Tenacious Eats ‘Movies for Foodies’ event will be a...

“I Guess it wasn’t the dove!”

Exciting news for movie lovers, gastronomes, and bubble-headed men from Mars! After a brief hiatus, Movies for Foodies, a regular film series put on by Chef Liz Schuster and the other talented chefs at Tenacious Eats, is back in a new location and a fresh slate of films to write menus around. Enjoy a five-course gourmet meal (and five unique cocktails from Eclipse Mixologist Seth Wahlman) while enjoying one of your favorite movies! That’s the Tenacious Eats way! The movie starts at 8pm. The doors open at 5:30 for the pre-show which includes an hour of Super-8 Movie Madness!

The hot new locale is The Loop – specifically the main dining room at Eclipse, on the ground floor of the Moonrise Hotel in the University City Loop (6177 Delmar Boulevard, St Louis, Mo 63112). The next Tenacious Eats ‘Movies for Foodies’ event will be a...

The St. Louis Rams have cut Michael Sam, the first openly gay player drafted by an NFL team. The seventh-round draft pick has been outspoken and confident as his progress was watched as closely as any rookie in the league. He has been cheered by athletes and celebrities. In the end, the defensive end couldn't make a team stocked with pass-rushers. The news was first reported by Espn. Sam still has a chance to get picked up by another team or to make the Rams' practice squad. On Saturday, he attended Missouri's opener in Columbia and was introduced to the...

[As you probably already know, starting on Thursday, August 21, Fxx is running the Every Simpsons Ever Marathon, running through all 552 episodes of "The Simpsons," plus "The Simpsons Movie." To aid in your viewing process, Team HitFix is selecting our favorite episodes from each day, plus an episode or two that you can skip and use as a bathroom or nap break.] Picking episodes for Day 1 of Fxx's Every Simpsons Ever Marathon was relatively easy. Yes, "The Simpsons" was quite fine right off the bat and it only improved as the show moved into its second season, but the fans here at HitFix were able to cobble together a clear list of favorites without any hugely disappointing exclusions. Day 2 was far more difficult. We have five participants picking episodes here and we each snagged two favorites for the day, which stretches from "Bart's Dog Gets an F" through to "Last Exit to Springfield," or from Episode 29 through Episode 76. I think we represented many of the best episodes from this fertile early period, but if I had been about to select four or five, I could have easily done it. My greatest regret is that we didn't have room for "Selma's Choice," which has possibly my favorite opening of the entire series --...

Jim Brown's 1964 NFL Championship ring fell into the hands of an auction house because his ex-wife hocked it way back in the 1980s ... this according to the auction house Brown is suing.The Cleveland Browns great sued Lelands Collectibles last month to block an upcoming auction of the ring. He alleged it had been stolen from him decades ago ... and therefore Lelands had no right to sell it.Now Lelands has filed a countersuit,...