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Robin Thicke, Wife Paula Patton Team For Urban Drama About A Female Pimp

Written by admin on Monday, March 19th, 2007 in Movies, Robin Thicke.

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Robin Thicke and Paula Patton
According to Billboard, the Chart-topping R&B artist Robin Thicke is currently in negotiations to write his first film score for the urban drama “This Wednesday,” by writer-director Christine Crokos. Robin Thicke’s wife Paula Patton will be attached to star as a female pimp in the movie.

Thicke’s wife is known for her leading roles in “Deja Vu” alongside Denzel Washington and OutKast’s Andre Benjamin in “Idlewild.”

In the new movie “This Wednesday” Paula Patton will portray Wednesday, who is a “trick baby” of a pimp father and mother who is a hooker. The character Wednesday struggles in her day-to-day life with the help of a best friend where she learns to survive in the streets of Philadelphia.

The movie is based on a true story of a female pimp based in Atlanta.

Shooting is expected to begin late this year in Philadelphia.

Photographer Of Album Cover Art Remembered

Written by admin on Monday, March 19th, 2007 in Lifestyle.

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Jeol Brodsky Album Art Photographer
According to the Washington Post, photographer Joel Brodsky, famous for album cover shots of Jim Morrison, Isaac Hayes, Aretha Franklin, and numerous other musicians during the 60s and 70s, died of a heart attack on March 1st at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 67.

Gallery owner, Chris Murray, who gave Brodsky his first exhibition at Washingston’s Govinda Gallery in 2001, stated, “What Annie Leibovitz and David LaChapelle ended up doing, Joel was doing 30 years ago. Joel’s work was a precursor to the illustrated concept album, and he’s definitely a precursor to hip-hop.”

Brodsky was also official house photographer for Stax Records, a Memphis soul and rhythm and blues label. There, he photographed Booker T & the MG’s and Albert King’s 1971 album Lovejoy, which featured King’s aging tour bus.

Joel Brodsky was born in Brooklyn, New York on October 7, 1939, and did not discover his talent for photography until he took a course in it at Syracuse University, where he graduated in 1960. He got a job in a camera store and took pictures on the side, opening his own studio in 1964.

According to reports, Brodsky did not have a photographic specialty until a friend who managed a folk group asked him to take pictures for an album. Brodsky loved music and had an enormous record collection, but was not necessarily inspired by the artists he photographed. Sid Holt, his son-in-law and a former managing editor of Rolling Stone claimed, “I never actually heard him listen to the music he shot. He didn’t particularly like the Doors.”

After nearly a decade of working, Brodsky left the rock-and-roll industry for more commercial work. He retired in 2001.

Brodsky is survived by his wife of 43 years, Valerie, and three daughters, Jill Holt, Brooke Brodsky, and Alexandra Alland, his sister, and three grandchildren.