A friend of mine recently issued a critic’s notebook challenge to me: Write about the most Blackfamous movie you know. I had an idea, but I thought of it so quickly that I questioned if I were right.

BernNadette Stanis is best known as Thelma from Good Times (1974), but there's much more to her than that. In the 1970s she was the personification of black beauty. As sophisticated and graceful as ...

In the Seventies, the ABC show “Good Times” was home to one of the hottest women in show business! Brooklyn-born Bern Nadette Stanis played middle sister Thelma Evans from 1974 to 1979, and was one of ...

Country singer and actor Red Steagall is 86. Guitarist Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick is 76. Actor BernNadette Stanis (“Good Times”) is 71. Rapper Luther Campbell (2 Live Crew) is 64. Guitarist Chuck ...

John Amos, the actor best known for his role on the sitcom “Good Times,” has died. He was 84. Amos passed away on August 21 in Los Angeles of natural causes, according to his son, film producer Kelly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. John Amos, who rose to fame as the father on Good Times before abruptly ...

He was the patriarch in one of the first sitcoms with an all-Black cast and an enslaved African in the American South in a blockbuster TV mini-series. By Ash Wu John Amos, who played a stern patriarch ...

Two weeks have passed since Netflix released the animated “Good Times” reboot, and its showrunner is weighing in on the audience reaction. Voicing the “Good Times” characters are (from left) Jay ...

To understand why Netflix’s new “Good Times: Black Again” is a cataclysmic shit show of a “reboot” is to first examine the original “Good Times” sitcom. Running from 1974 to 1979 as a spinoff of ...

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A cast member from the original "Good Times" series is calling out Netflix's "progressive" animated reboot of the beloved family show. A cast member from the original Good Times series is calling out ...