Showing 1 - 5 of 5 articles tagged "James McBride"

• Posted Saturday 10/03/20 at 7:13AM EDT

  Showtime's Ethan Hawke-led The Good Lord Bird is refreshingly quirky for a historical series

  "Too often, period pieces about the making of America treat the past with undue dignity, turning the raucousness and rambunctiousness...

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  Posted Thursday 10/01/20 at 3:00AM EDT

  Showtime's The Good Lord Bird Is a Raucous Tour de Farce

  For sheer knee-slapping, jaw-dropping, head-scratching entertainment, I’ve never read anything like James McBride’s historical farce, The Good Lord Bird.

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  Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 2:35PM EDT

  Showtime pushes back The Good Lord Bird to give it more context in wake of police brutality protests

  The miniseries starring Ethan Hawke as abolitionist John Brown, based on James McBride's 2013 novel, has been rescheduled from Aug.

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  Posted Monday 3/11/19 at 2:27PM EDT

  Ethan Hawke to play abolitionist John Brown on Showtime's Good Lord Bird

  The four-time Oscar nominee is co-writing, producing and starring in the eight-part limited series based on James McBride's 2013 novel...

• Posted Tuesday 6/12/18 at 1:37PM EDT

  Ethan Hawke to play abolitionist leader John Brown in a limited series he's co-writing

  Hawke is co-writing the Blumhouse TV project based on James McBride's 2013 book on the 19th century abolitionist leader titled...