http://tvoneblogs.com/coolfactor Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:22:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In 2009, people are still asking the question: "Where is Lauryn Hill?" Well, in 1993, the question was more like "Who IS Lauryn Hill?" The world soon found out when the future Grammy-winning singer/rapper made her debut in Whoopi Goldberg's hit Sister Act 2 (premiering on TV One Saturday at 8pm ... http://tvoneblogs.com/coolfactor/?p=126 When you think of Morris Chestnut, there may be several words that spring to mind: RICKY!, Sexy chocolate, Great actor. Pretty much no one ever says "bad buy." That is, unless they've seen this scene from Half Past Dead (premiering Sat. at 8pm [ET]). [flv:10105.flv http://tvoneblogs.com/ourhistory/poster/brandwall.jpg 320 240] We bet Ricky would never shoot ... http://tvoneblogs.com/coolfactor/?p=119 Welcome to March Movie Madness, the month TV One airs some of the biggest premieres with some of the biggest stars including Samuel L. Jackson in The Cleaner, Terrence Howard in Spark, Pam Grier in Friday Foster and more. Each week in March, we pit two of our biggest stars against ... http://tvoneblogs.com/coolfactor/?p=112 Welcome to March Movie Madness, the month TV One airs some of the biggest premieres with some of the biggest stars including Samuel L. Jackson in The Cleaner, Terrence Howard in Spark, Pam Grier in Friday Foster and more. Each week in March, we pit two of our biggest stars against ... http://tvoneblogs.com/coolfactor/?p=106 Welcome to March Movie Madness, the month TV One airs some of the biggest premieres with some of the biggest stars including Samuel L. Jackson in The Cleaner, Terrence Howard in Spark, Pam Grier in Friday Foster and more. Each week in March, we pit two of our biggest stars against ... http://tvoneblogs.com/coolfactor/?p=97 Welcome to March Movie Madness, the month TV One airs some of the biggest premieres with some of the biggest stars including Samuel L. Jackson in The Cleaner, Terrence Howard in Spark, Pam Grier in Friday Foster and more. Each week in March, we pit two of our biggest stars against ... http://tvoneblogs.com/coolfactor/?p=92 We premiered this film back in February, but in case you missed it, The Cleaner (Sunday at 5pm [ET])airing is probably the best Sam Jackson film you've NEVER seen. As a crime-scene cleaner, Jackson keeps a low profile, that is until he cleans up a crime scene in Eva Mendes' ... http://tvoneblogs.com/coolfactor/?p=81 [flv:8106_BroadbandPlayer.flv http://tvoneblogs.com/coolfactor/poster/tvonevideo.jpg 320 240] Making movies is hard to do, especially if you're damn near broke. Still, that didn't stop Robert Townsend who hooked up with a few of his friends to create a modern classic. Hollywood Shuffle, a funny, but scathing look at 1980's Hollywood treatment of Black actors and ... http://tvoneblogs.com/coolfactor/?p=75 Four years before Sidney Poitier stood tall and proclaimed "They Call me MR. TIBBS!" he was already doing his thing in the film Lilies of the Field. In Lilies (which airs Saturday at 7pm [ET]), Poitier plays an ex-GI officer who is believed to be a holy messenger, sent to ... http://tvoneblogs.com/coolfactor/?p=61 It should be no surprise that a movie named Cooley High (airing Saturday at 8pm [ET]) would have a ton of, well, cool moments in it. I mean, the 1975 classic had everything going for it. The cast included Lawrence Hilton Jacobs who went on to become the coolest guy in Welcome ... http://tvoneblogs.com/coolfactor/?p=55