SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sidewalk Entertainment, an AI startup company based in Seoul, South Korea, announced on October 30 that their global K-Pop Dance AI Platform, STEPIN, ...

Stepin Fetchit, the character that Lincoln Theodore Perry created, made the Key West native a millionaire and gave him the life of a flamboyant celebrity during the Depression. But his trademark ...

During his time, Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry’s success could have been considered the epitome of any man’s dream, regardless of race. Born in Key West, Fla., in 1892 to Caribbean parents, ...

“The Americans are coming,” argued European Producers Club’s Alexandra Lebret during Locarno’s StepIn’s wrap-up session. And it can be a good thing. “They want to benefit from lower costs and tax ...

Although he never won an Oscar, Lincoln Perry was America's first black movie star. But for that distinction, Perry paid a heavy price -- he is best known as the character of Stepin Fetchit, a ...

Most performers don’t get to meet the figures from history they portray. Patti LuPone never said hello to Eva Peron. Tom Hulce didn’t shake hands with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. But Ben Vereen met both ...

Few pop consumers remember who Stepin Fetchit was. That must mean we’ve come a long way from the period when mass media trafficked in racist black stereotypes, because Stepin Fetchit was one of the ...

There’s a letter from Stepin Fetchit in the John Ford papers at the Lilly Library. It’s handwritten, articulate, dignified, very There’s a letter from Stepin Fetchit in the John Ford papers at the ...

To the extent that the black film comedian Stepin Fetchit is remembered at all today, it’s as a symbol of racism. Beginning his career in the late 1920s, Fetchit–whose real name was Lincoln Theodore ...

Theater Review | 'Fetch Clay, Make Man' By Charles Isherwood PRINCETON, N.J. The playwright Will Power places an unlikely pair of contenders in the theatrical ring in the new play “Fetch Clay, Make ...

The Locarno Film Festival‘s unique StepIn industry think tank, which is going online this year due to the pandemic, will delve into the future of the theatrical experience, production, film festivals ...

Locarno’s interdisciplinary and international think tank StepIn will welcome comedian and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid to its 14 th edition. In her introduction “Somewhere Over the Rainbow: ...