“I’m an actor and I have no problem with playing different characters and I have no problem doing characters with different judgments and lifestyles. Other people have issues with that, then that’s their problem.  This decision is between me and my God,” exclaimed Dunbar emphatically. He discusses playing a gay character in new film Dirty Laundry. Check out the official trailer featuring Rockmond Dunbar [photo], Loretta Divine, Terri J. Vaughn, Jenifer Lewis, Maurice Jamal, Erica Watson and more. Here’s also a scene from the film Punks where Marcus and the guys take Darby (Rockmond Dunbar) to get ice cream, and a beautiful montage “I Feel Love” from that film. 

Sayers: My Life and Times. In 1971, a made-for-TV movie moved millions to tears: the friendship between two football teammates—both running backs, one white, one black—is put to the test and strengthened when one discovers he has terminal cancer. The movie was Brian’s Song, and the story was real. The cancer victim was Chicago Bear Brian Piccolo, and his teammate was Gale Sayers, a Hall-of-Famer who would become known as one of the best running backs of all time. In this as-told-to autobiography, Sayers tells his own story, paying modest homage to his own career while looking back at professional football at a time when every player wasn’t a millionaire. On camera, Pardon the Interruption host Mike Wilbon recommended the book. I loved the film. 

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. From the second that Tim Meadows appears from the shadows, as an elderly drummer, and says that Dewey Cox (John C. Reily) needs to think about his entire life before he plays to the last image we see of the “actual Dewey Cox,” there are more laughs than you can shake a stick at. Typically, a film of this nature, a biopic farce, would quickly run out of jokes and lose its magic somewhere in the second act. Not Walk Hard. It keeps the laughs coming from every direction and even when a joke is used multiple times, it’s altered in a perfect way to still be smart and funny. 

To a growing number of viewers, Frank Caliendo is no longer “Frank who?” An alumnus of “Mad TV,” rubber-faced, good-natured Caliendo has performed comic impersonations on most of the big late-night talk shows, especially “Late Show With David Letterman.” He has a new show, Frank TV. 

Only a week ago, New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas said he didn’t believe in criticizing his teams during tough times. Tough times have apparently changed.  

Destiny’s Child star Kelly Rowland failed to strike the right note – as her newly formed choir was voted off Clash of the Choirs. 

Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb denied telling FOX sideline reporter Pam Oliver “point-blank” that “my knee is not an issue” and “the next place I go I will win.”

“You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.” [Stella Adler]