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THE BULLETIN • FEBRUARY 4 - 10, 2021
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“Movie: The Heart of Nuba”
From director Kenneth A. Carlson
(“Go Tigers!”) comes this 2016
documentary that follows American
doctor Tom Catena, who courageously
and selflessly tends to the needs of
the people of the war-torn Nuba
Mountains of Sudan, even as they’re
being bombed relentlessly by indicted
war criminal Omar al-Bashir. Catena’s
family also appears.
Checking in with
CRESS WILLIAMS
BY GEORGE DICKIE
“Movie: Soufra”
This joint U.S./Lebanon documentary
from director Thomas A. Morgan
(“Storied Streets”) goes inside a Beirut
camp housing refugees from Palestine,
Syria and Iraq, to meet Mariam
AlShaar, who organized the women
there to start the first refugee food
truck, a journey of many ups and
downs and lots of political opposition.
“Movie: Super Dark Times”
Teenage best friends find their
relationship put to the test when a
gruesome accident and subsequent
cover-up plunges them into a vortex of
of escalating paranoia and violence in
this 2017 crime drama from director
Kevin Phillips (“III”). Owen Campbell
(“Depraved”), Charlie Tahan (“Ozark”)
and Elizabeth Cappuccino (“Jessica
Jones”) head the cast.
Even when he’s not in character as “Black Lightning,” Cress
Williams likes to keep his body in top condition.
Indeed, the 50-year-old star of The CW action series, which returns
for its fourth and final season Monday, Feb. 8, watches what he eats
and works out six days a week in the gym in his Atlanta-area home.
It’s a habit that’s deeply ingrained in his lifestyle and something he
misses when he can’t do it.
“Even before the show came about, I think right around when
I turned 40, I really got into health and fitness and really kind of
cracked the codebook, diet and exercise-wise,” the 50-year-old actor
explains. “And I built a home gym like back in 2013 so I’ve always
had one, which is really good during these COVID times, so working
out is something I just have always done and it’s like a big part of my
life and I really enjoy it. So that’s been easy and it’s something I’ll just
maintain long after the show is gone.”
Details are few regarding what’s in store for the series’ final season,
save that one episode will reportedly serve as a backdoor pilot for
Jordan Calloway’s character of Painkiller, who was revealed to still be
alive at the end of Season 3.
As for Jefferson/Black Lightning, he’ll be dealing with the loss of
Chief Henderson (former cast member Damon Gupton), who was
killed saving Black Lightning’s life in the Season 3 finale.
“(He’s) feeling guilty about that and just trying to reconcile that ...,”
Williams says. “Henderson was like his closest male friend so that’s
really what he’s wrestling with in the very beginning.”
“Property Brothers: Forever
Home”
Twin stars Jonathan and Drew Scott
help turn the ordinary residences
of featured families into the homes
of which they’ve always dreamed in
Season 1 of this renovation series from
HGTV. In each episode, the brothers
take the chosen couple on a tour of
renovated homes to discover what
features their clients love, then get to
work.
Name: Cress Williams
Birth date: July 26, 1970
Birthplace: Heidelberg, Germany (raised in Orange County,
Calif.)
Family ties: Married actress Kristen Torrianni in 2013; has
a son and a daughter from a previous marriage
Education: Has a B.A. in theater from UCLA
Other TV credits: “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “Beverly
Hills, 90210,” “NYPD Blue,” “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures
of Superman,” “JAG,” “Living Single,” “Leaving L.A.,” “Becker,”
“Sports Night,” “Nash Bridges,” “Philly,” “Providence,”
“Presidio Med,” “Touched by an Angel,” “The Lyon’s Den,” “Law
& Orer: Special Victims Unit,” “House,” “Veronica Mars,” “The
West Wing,” “Close to Home,” “ER,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Prison
Break,” “Cold Case,” “Friday Night Lights,” “Hart of Dixie,”
“Code Black,” “The Flash,” “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”
Movie credits: “The Doom Generation” (1994), “2 Days
in the Valley” (1996), “Never Been Kissed” (1999), “The
Dogwalker” (1999), “Pursuit of Happiness” (2001), “Little Black
Book” (2004), “Ball Don’t Lie” (2008), “In Your Eyes” (2014),
“Lowriders” (2016), “Reign of Supermen” (2019), “The Violent
Heart” (2020)