Music video for ‘Dog Day’ released
Dan Patlansky released a music video, that was shot in Pretoria, for the first single of his soon to be released album Perfection Kills. The video was directed by Dizzy Khaki. “The video features a performance element combined with a story line of a guy having a bad day in a first world, which isn’t so bad. His car won’t start, he runs through town to get home, only to learn his house keys are still in his car,” Patlansky said about the music video. He also praised Khaki for his ability to convert the song and it’s meaning into a visual format.
24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
The prestigious SAG Awards took place on 21 January to honour the work that female and male actors have done in that past year. The show was hosted by Kirstin Bell and featured predominantly female presenters. The executive producer of the ceremony Kathy Connell said, “There are some movements in town that say women should be 50-50 by 2020. And I said, ‘Well maybe for one night, the women will be more than 50-50 for two hours.’” The presenters included Halle Berry, Niecy Nash and Olivia Munn who recently spoke out about being sexually harassed.
After the amazing show of support for the Time’s Up and #metoo movements at the Golden Globes, actors kept the balls rolling for change and support of these movements at the SAG awards. Actor Sam Rockwell who won an award for his supporting role in the film Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri said in his acceptance speech that he “stands shoulder to shoulder with you (his co-star Frances McDormand) and all the incredible woman in this room, who are trying to make things better. It is long overdue.”
Other winners include Alison Janney for her role in I,Tonya, Alexander Skarsgard and Nicole Kidman for Big Little Lies and Golden Globe winner Sterling K Brown for his lead role in the television series This is Us.
Morgan Freeman was given the life time achievement award. Freeman concluded his acceptance speech with a quip about how the SAG trophy is too gender specific. The trophy is a sculpture of a naked male holding a trophy.
Dancing with the stars comes to South Africa
In late December of 2017 Mnet announced that the famous reality dance competition is coming to a television near you. Dancing with the stars has a cult following in countries like America and the UK. The premise of the show is that local celebrities Pair up with a professional dancer and compete for a trophy. South African celebrities who have joined the cast includes former Miss South Africa Liesl Laurie, actress Zola Nombona and Bafana Bafana legend Delron Buckly. The much anticipated show premiers on Sunday 4 February.
Compiled by Claudine Noppe
