Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Townsend has never stopped moving. For a recent Zoom interview, he is on his phone from his (parked) car so he can go for ...

Actor/director Robert Townsend arrives at the “Jubilee” show’s grand re-opening at Bally’s Las Vegas on March 29, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/FilmMagic) *Robert Townsend made ...

Spending an hour with Robert Townsend—producer-director–writer-star of the anarchic shoestring extravaganza Hollywood Shuffle—is like watching a television commandeered by a hyperactive ten-year-old ...

How scarce were opportunities for Black filmmakers when Robert Townsend and Keenen Ivory Wayans dreamt up the idea for Hollywood Shuffle in the mid-1980s? Townsend, who had a solid acting career at ...

The "American Fiction" writer-director dives into the films and people who inspired his work and influenced his Oscar-nominated directorial debut. With his directorial debut American Fiction, Cord ...

William Okuwah Garrett, film editor on Hollywood Shuffle and director of music videos during the “Black Pack” era of the early ’90s, has died. He was 73. His wife, producer-director Marlene McCurtis, ...

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Thirty-six years ago, “Hollywood Shuffle,” the debut film from writer/director/comedian/star Robert Townsend, played art-house theaters around the country ...

I first became introduced to the work of Robert Townsend unceremoniously when his family sitcom, The Parent ‘Hood, premiered on The WB network in 1995. A professorial father figure with a wife and ...

Robert Townsend has never stopped moving. For a recent Zoom interview, he is on his phone from his (parked) car so he can go for one of his regular walks around a local L.A. lake once he’s finished.