Back On The Fantastic Voyage!

I love the Tom Joyner Cruise.  It’s a well run event that is drenched in blackness.  I hosted a screening of DJANGO and led a discussion, which went great but the highlights for me was a) the hang, and b) the great musical performances.

Jamie Foxx kicked it off with a variety show of a performance with music and comedy guest stars ranging from Jay Anthony Brown, Guy Torry and Kym Whitley to Tank, Little Kim, Biz Markie and Trey Songz.  He seamlessly weaves comedy and music together like no one else.

Jamie is a world class total entertainer and a great guy on top of it.  Afterwards, Tom Joyner told me he didn’t expect Jamie to do all that, and we didn’t know how any other act could follow him.

I also got to hang out with Mike Phillips, one of the stars of my man Steve McKeever’s Hidden Beach label.  Anyone who has toured with Prince AND Cirque de Soilel has to be a heck of a performer but man I still wasn’t ready for what he brought.

He was so good I came back the next night.  He straight up tore the house down.

Talk about it on HEF – the Hudlin Entertainment Forum

Enter The Dragon 40th Anniversary

The Academy had a special screening of ENTER THE DRAGON with key surviving cast and crew present.  They told great stories, then we watched the movie again…which I had not seen in its entirely since I was a kid.

Damn it holds up!  What a great time!  It is lean and mean as a mug!

Afterwards we enjoyed the amazing exhibit of classic kung fu movie posters donated to the Motion Picture Academy by Stephen Chin.

Here’s a picture of Selwyn Hines with John Singleton and his son, who is now a student at USC.

Talk about it on HEF – the Hudlin Entertainment Forum