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Anika Noni Rose, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, and more star in the Manhattan Theatre Club production.
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The reduced season at the New Jersey venue will coincide with the conclusion of the theatre's multi-year renovation.
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 Paramount released the first photographic evidence of its Rosemary's Baby prequel, Apartment 7A. Telling the story of another poor pixie-haired woman manipulated by creepy neighbors and, presumably, a man who is one sick SOB in league with the devil, the show described as a prequel looks like a remake.
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 In a new interview with InStyle, Rashida Jones says her parents, Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton, protected her and her siblings from the glare of the spotlight when they were young. Though she enjoyed the safety and privilege of her parents' position, fame "wasn't that much a part of my reality," Rashida says. That…
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Gabrielle Union knows the value of a sturdy support system. But she also knows that not everyone has one.
She made this point at Monday night's 11th Annual Night of Opportunity Gala held in New York City for The Opportunity Network, a nonprofit that works with students from historically and systematically underrepresented communities achieve their college and career goals.
Union, 45, was an honoree at the event, and in her acceptance speech, she spoke about expanding the idea of what a support system can be. She explained that she learned the hard way that "your people" are not always who you thought they would be. She referenced the time she was raped as a sophomore in college.
"When I was raped at gunpoint, one of the most lonely and debilitating experiences of my life, I had to redefine what it meant to be a part of a community because my ‘people' didn't have a ton of experience with rape survivors," the Being Mary Jane star and producer said to Cipriani's packed but silent dining room. "So I had to expand my idea of what and who my people were. I needed a different kind of support. I needed different opportunities, opportunities to heal and then the ability to want to continue living."
The summer before starting her sophomore year of college at UCLA, the actress was raped at gunpoint by a stranger in the Payless store where she worked.
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But that wasn't the first time she realized she needed "different" opportunities.
"When I was at UCLA, a lot of the kids I was at school with, their parents got them internships and their parents had jobs lined up for them or they took over the family business," she explained to PEOPLE. "I don'
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