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It’s always tough for Emayatzy Corinealdi to choose her favourite scene from Middle of Nowhere. It’s no wonder, either. After all there are so…
Shawn Allen spent four and a half years working at Rockstar Games, one of the videogame industry’s major brand names. But after working on…
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It’s hard to imagine any woman turning down Shemar Moore. But Denise Boutte, or at least her character, does. She dumps him actually. In…