Theater review JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Barrymore Theatre, 243 West 47th Street. Almost without fail, the brilliance of August Wilson emerges even in mediocre stagings of his plays. That is the unshakable feeling at the revival of his “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” that … Read more
Cedric Hodges learned the hard way that backstabs happen on “Big Brother.” Despite being in the majority alliance, the 21-year-old ex-Marine became the fourth person to be voted out on Season 26 last week. Kimo Apaka and T’kor Clottey turned on Hodges after they learned from Quinn Martin that the two, along with Chelsie Baham, … Read more
Cedric the Entertainer looked no further than his own grandfather to inspire his first novel. “Flipping Boxcars,” out Sept. 12 (Amistad/HarperCollins), tells the story of Floyd “Babe” Boyce, a bootlegger in Caruthersville, Mo. (Cedric’s hometown), and unfolds over July 4th weekend in 1948. “Babe is my [maternal] grandfather and these would be stories that I … Read more