Out on more acting auditions today. Hoping God will bless me with a new and challenging role.

ATL FALCONS JONATHAN BABINEAUX SPOKESPERSON FOR LUPUS

Atlanta Falcons Jonathan Babineaux

 

Altanta Falcons Jonathan Babineaux

Spokesperson for Lupus Foundation

Georgia Chapter 

NFL star Jonathan Babineaux has joined forces with the Lupus Foundation of America, Georgia Chapter to help raise awareness for lupus, one of the least recognizable and most misunderstood diseases affecting 55,000 Georgians and more than 1.5 million Americans.

 

Jonathan, who was recently inducted into the Port Arthur Hall of Fame along with his brother Jordan who plays for the Seattle Seahawks, through their Babineaux Brothers Foundation have been sponsoring fundraisers in their hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, to benefit lupus research for four years. Jonathan is now assisting Georgians living with lupus by helping highlight the programs, services and events provided by the Georgia chapter.

 

The Lupus Foundation of America, Georgia Chapter (LFAGA) is the only statewide valuable resource for lupus patients, providing thousands with educational information, physician referrals, resources, support groups and educational programs. 90% of every dollar raised stays in Georgia to support chapter programs.

 

Monday, Sept. 22, 2008, the LFAGA is hosting its first annual “Drive for Lupus Now” Golf Tournament at Towne Lake Hills Golf Club with PGA Tour’s Jason Bohn and Mark Strickland, the 2007 Georgia State Golf Association, Player of the Year. To play golf, sponsor a golfer or for more information on all chapter programs and how to get involved and make a difference for those living with lupus, visit http://www.lfaga.org or call 770-333-5930 or email info@lfaga.org

 

Due to the alarming increase in the number of people affected by lupus in their hometown, the Babineaux family raise funds to benefit lupus programs as well as building a community recreation center.

Bernie Mac’s Funeral Service-RIP

Georgia Film,Music and Digital Entertainment Newsletter

New Film Soul Men – Starring Bernie Mac and Isac Hayes

 

Bernie Mac and Issac Hayes were both starring in Malcom D. Lee’s new film entitled “Soul Men”.

The premise of the movie is a disjointed singing group agrees to reunite for a Reunion Preformance at the Apollo Theatre. The release date is November 2008. Grammy Award winner John Legend is also in this film.

Rmember these great actors in Novemember and go see

 ”Soul Men”

 

 

Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes- Legacy.Com-Express Your Condolences

As you most certainly know, two well-known African-American artists and entertainers, have passed away.

Legacy.com has featured Guest Books for Mr. Isaac Hayes and Mr. Bernie Mac on its site. In your coverage of either celebrity, please consider offering a way to allow the general public to express their condolences.

You may find the Guest Books at http://www.legacy.com/gb/guestbookview.aspx?personId=115344639 a
http://www.legacy.com/gb/guestbookview.aspx?personId=115220922, respectively

 Both of these talented men will be missed by all.

Bernie Mac’s Guest Book has drawn hundreds of photos and thousands of Guest Book entries already.

 

Go to http://www.legacy.com

Kal Cauthen “Ruth”

 

New Movie”Ruth” Starring Kal Cauthen

Comedian/Actor Bernie Mac – Hospitalized

Bernine Mac

Comedian/Actor Bernie Mac was hospitalized in Chicago with pneumonia. His publicist Danica Smith said that he is responding well to treatment and is expected to be released from the hospital soon.

Well wishes go out to Bernie and his family.

Talented Actor Morgan Freeman Injured in Car Accident

Actor Morgan Freeman was injured in a car accident in Mississippi. Freeman is in critical condition. The incident took place shortly before midnight on Sunday.

My prayers go out to him and his family.

Actor Morgan Freeman injured in car accident in Mississippi

Atlanta’s ‘cold cases’ get TV treatment

CRIME/TELEVISION

Atlanta’s ‘cold cases’ get TV treatment
New cable series based on true crimes filming in Roswell

By JEFFRY SCOTT
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 06/20/2008

 

 

The idea is to take crimes from the streets and put a fictional spin on them to produce an Atlanta cop drama that will alter the image of this city the way the HBO series “The Wire” has reimagined Baltimore.

But there are problems on the set of “Atlanta Investigations: HD,” a shoestring production that, at this moment, is shooting an episode in an abandoned gym without air-conditioning on a boiling June afternoon that makes everyone on the set feel like something in the oven for dinner.

 

The generator powering the lights just ran out of gas. Carl Millender, the show’s creator and video camera operator, groans. “I only brought enough gas to run it [the generator] two and a half hours,” he tells the actors.

He pauses, thinks a second.

“Everybody move over by the window — we’ll shoot it there.”

If there’s an instinct vital to survival in the industry of TV on the cheap it’s knowing how to adapt. Millender, 38, the owner of Alpharetta-based StarMaxx Media, has honed that instinct in nine years of trying to survive on the margins of television production in Atlanta.

“They say we’re supposed to shoot an episode on a budget of $100,000,” he says of the show, which will begin airing on The Dish satellite network Thursday. “We’re more like $20,000.”

There’s no disguising the cut corners from viewers used to watching slick cop productions such as “CSI” or “Law & Order,” which carries an average per episode production budget of $4 million.

In early episodes of “Atlanta Investigations: HD,” the lighting, camera work and sound are patchy. And for actors — who are unpaid until the series airs — the work has been a test of mettle.

“We’ve been at both extremes shooting in this gym,” says Chris Durant, 34, who plays strictly-by-the-books Detective Stephen Winslow. “In January we were freezing. The beginning of June we’re sweating our tails off.”

Yet, says Millender, “Atlanta Investigations: HD” (the HD stands for homcide division) is about more than just making a hit show.

About 90 shows and series have been shot in Atlanta in the last 35 years, most recently Tyler Perry’s “House of Payne,” but “Atlanta Investigtions: HD” would be the first dramatic series set and shot in the city with Atlanta in the name.

And that’s huge, Millender says.

“Atlanta is the Mecca of the South, and the center of the music industry, but there’s no TV show ever been based here, and there’s no TV industry here. This is what we’re trying to do. And we’ve been getting a lot of help.”

And they’ve needed it. Millender and co-creator and director Hattie Lemon know their way around the TV business. And they’re doing what they can to juice the show’s appeal, such as casting celebrity guest appearances (comic Arnez J) and hiring Michael Moore — who produced music for episodes of “The Sopranos” — to write the show’s high-energy theme.

But, when it came to running even a fictional homicide division, Millender and Lemon were complete tyros.

They asked for help in a most unexpected place: The Andrew Young Foundation. Millender got in touch with former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young’s brother, Walter, an Atlanta dentist who works with the Foundation, and told him he was trying to produce a cop show in Atlanta that would help solve crimes and give the city a lot of publicity.

Within two days Walter Young arranged a meeting with local police chiefs. Over dinner at the Four Seasons restaurant, Millender bounced his ideas off Atlanta Police Chief Richard J. Pennington, DeKalb Chief Terrell Bolton and former Atlanta chief and current Clayton County Commission Chairman Eldrin Bell.

Bolton, for one, told the producer Millender he should change the name of the show, which was originally titled “Atlanta Homicide,” recalls Millender. “He said that wasn’t the right image for the city.”

With Pennington’s blessing, Millender met with the head of the Atlanta Police Department’s homicide division, Lt. Keith Meadows, who watched one of the early episodes and offered advice.

“I thought it was pretty good, though you could tell it was low budget,” said Meadows, who teaches a crime scene class in the department’s Citizens Academy. “But they had a lot of unrealistic parts I told them they needed to fix.”

Meadows told Millender and Lemon, who attended this crime scene class, to clean up the language — “Homicide detectives don’t talk in the kind of slang they did” — and put coats and ties on the crime scene detectives.

“Their investigators were wearing T-shirts and bandannas,” Meadow said. “That’s a no-no. If an investigator of mine showed up like that I’d send him home.”

The show now has a full-time cop consultant and, for script ideas, a pipeline to Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue’s “Rewards Office,” which offers money to help solve hard-to-crack crimes.

At the end of each episode, which are fictionalized versions of the real-life crimes, viewers are asked to come forward if they have evidence in the case.

“It’s a great show, good for the police and good for the city,” says Billy Johnson, a specialist in charge of extradition and rewards in the governor’s office who is also on the board of the Georgia Film, Video and Music Office.

The show is fictionalizing: gang-related drive-by shootings in Clayton County in 2005; a 2007 triple murder in Powder Springs; the case of a woman missing from LaFayette since 2007; and the case of a newborn found dead and abandoned in 2007.

All that will come to naught if the show doesn’t catch on with viewers, concedes Arthur Thomas Sr., VP of Colours TV, which is syndicating the show on The Dish satellite network. Locally, the show will air the evening of July 3 on The Dish at Channel 9407.

But the show’s appeal may be its lack of polish.

“It’s got a great cast, real stories, and a kind of gritty indie feel to it,” says Thomas. “If it’s a good story, people will accept the production values. And I think Atlanta is hungry for a show about Atlanta.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kal Cauthen as Detecive Bryce -Atlanta Homicide-Investigation TV Series

Clip of Kal in Atlanta Homicide Lastest Episode

D*jango’s, Party for A.I HD.

Kal Cauthen, SATARA, and Chris Durant

Kal Cauthen

Kal Cauthen- Can You Imagine – Equinox

 

Eposide: Swingers get together to have adult fun. What happens when someone gets too possessive? Last one out of the hot tub brings the body! Also, you’re driving along, stop to help a car that’s not moving and you find a dead man behind the wheel; what do you do?

 

Written and Directed by: Todd A. Parker

 

June 2008 – 2nd Season
The shooting of the 2nd Season of Atlanta Homicide (Atlanta HD) starts. Check the website often for information about casting calls and shoot locations.

Kal Cauthen – Atlanta Homicide – Intro2

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June 2008 – 2nd Season
The shooting of the 2nd Season of Atlanta Homicide (Atlanta HD) starts. Check the website often for information about casting calls and shoot locations.

Kal Cauthen’s Walks the Runway at “A Fashion Affair”

Atlanta Homicide (The Series)

 You all are invited to witness; even participate in the making of a new television series. Atlanta Homicide – The Series, is a Starr Maxx Media production currently filming in Atlanta.

 “Atlanta Homicide” is a television episodic drama about the police homicide department in Atlanta, Georgia. It centers around the lives of six officers as they investigate local murders and related crimes. The series is a blend of CSI and Unsolved Mysteries from the streets of the ATL.

 

 

WJXE TV – Thursday Nights @ 10:00PM

Detective Bryce has the grit and the determination to find the answers to resolve each case. “Atlanta Homicide” is a television episodic drama about the police homicide department in Atlanta, Georgia. It centers around the lives of officers as they investigate local murders and related crimes. The first season of “Atlanta Homicide” features rising talent from the Atlanta area. Kal Cauthen of “All My Children” and “American Gangster” plays Detective William Bryce; Chimere Love of “Three Can Play That Game” plays Detective Red Torrez; Megan Melgaard of “The Guardian” plays Detective Foley; and Angelina Cortez plays Detective Wilmore, Alexa Rae as Detective Martinez, Archie Hughes as the Public Defender, Mathew Francesconi as Detective McNamara, Allen Earls as the Chief of police are among those who grace the camera on the series. The series will also feature music by Jacksonville artists as a part of the closing credits. StarMaxx Media and Sweet Lemon Tree Films have joined forces to create one of the most exciting dramas to be shot in Atlanta. WJXE looks forward to airing the new series on its station. “We are thrilled to be the exclusive distributor of this fresh, new innovative program in the Jacksonville market,” said Mike Anapolsky, Vice President and General Manager of WJXE. “Atlanta Homicide” will be a welcome addition to our line up of culturally diverse programming.”

Kal Cauthen in the role of Detective William Bryce, leads the ensemble cast of Atlanta Homicide.

Atlanta Homicide Cast With Leading Actor Kal Cauthen