TV Guide: Vanessa L. Williams

Listing: Treats!

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:00:00 -0400

Fri Oct 24 07:00 AM PBS An advertising team needs help creating a commercial. Guests include Vanessa Williams, Oliver Platt and Jon Stewart. Designated reader: Melissa Etheridge. Target vowel sound: “ea” as in the word treat.

Listing: Soul Food

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:00:00 -0400

Tue Oct 21 08:00 PM FMC

Listing: The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:30:00 -0400

Thu Oct 16 06:30 AM HBO2e

Photo: Vanessa Williams - The "Sleeping Beauty" 50th anniversary after party in New York City, September 28, 2008

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Video: Dance with Me

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:37:45 -0400

When the charming Rafael (Chayanne) meets cool Ruby (Vanessa L. Williams), his honesty and sensuality awake in her new and, at first, frightening passions. Though Rafael follows Ruby to Las Vegas for the World Open Dance Championships, she is destined to dance with another... and win. But Rafael is looking for more than just a dance partner and Ruby could take home something far more precious than a trophy in this steamy story of love and dance.

Photo: Jane Krakowski, Michael Bolton and Vanessa Williams - The 2008 Lincoln Center Spring Gala Honoring Robert Iger in New York City, April 9, 2008

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Video: Light It Up

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:13:00 -0400

Noted R&B artist and producer Kenneth (Babyface) Edmonds served as executive producer for this tough urban drama. After a shooting incident in a neglected inner-city school leaves a police officer wounded, a group of students holds the cop hostage, in a desperate effort to force improvements to their school. The cast includes another R&B hitmaker, Usher, as well as Forest Whitaker, Vanessa L. Williams, and Rosario Dawson. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

Video: Johnson Family Vacation

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:45:28 -0400

Comedian Cedric the Entertainer serves as both producer and star of this comedy about a family who discovers just how much can go wrong en route to a family get-together. When Nate Johnson (Cedric the Entertainer) is invited to a big family reunion in Missouri, he sees it as an opportunity to reconnect with his estranged wife and growing children, as well as a chance to show up his wealthier know-it-all brother, Mack (Steve Harvey). Nate takes delivery on an expensive new SUV, persuades his recently separated wife, Dorothy (Vanessa L. Williams), to tag along, and packs up his three kids -- nubile teenager Nikki (Solange Knowles), under-age wannabe rapper D.J. (Bow Wow), and precocious seven-year-old Destiny (Gabby Soleil) -- for what he imagines will be a leisurely drive from Los Angeles to St. Louis. However, between his wary wife, arguing kids, angry police officers, bizarre hitchhikers, bad diner food, and an unfortunate run-in with a cement mixer, getting from point A to point B proves to be just short of

Video: Dance With Me

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:30:19 -0400

Randa Haines directed this dance drama, focusing on young Cuban Rafael Infante (Latino singer Chayanne) after the death of his mother. Rafael leaves Cuba for Houston, where he meets his father John Burnett (Kris Kristofferson) for the first time. Burnette is unaware that the young man is his son, and Rafael can't figure out how to tell him. Rafael's mother was a singer on cruise ships where Burnett was a dance instructor. Burnett owns the Excelsior Dance Studio, and he gives Rafael a handyman job there, where he meets and falls for the Ruby (Vanessa L. Williams) a beautiful professional dancer. With the Las Vegas World Open Dance competition in a few weeks, dancers work on their routines, and Ruby aims for the Vegas prize. Rafael partners with Patricia (Jane Krakowski) after Burnett loses interest in the competition, and Ruby dances with her brutish ex-boyfriend, the father of her young son. Then it's on to Vegas. This film features great dance numbers and an homage to Gene Kelly beneath a sprinkler system. ~

Video: Hoodlum

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:56:16 -0400

The white-run Mafia and the black-run numbers game meet head on with explosive impact in this period crime thriller. Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) is an African-American ex-con who, after a stay in prison, returns to Harlem at the height of its renaissance before World War II. Looking for work, Bumpy becomes a lieutenant for Stephanie St. Clair (Cicely Tyson), the queen of Harlem's numbers racket. Bumpy's old friend Illinois Gordon (Chi McBride) gently expresses his concern about Bumpy's life of crime, and social worker Francine Hughes (Vanessa L. Williams), who is attracted to Bumpy (and vice versa), suggests he should be doing something more positive with his life. But Bumpy contends that the numbers game is the only business in the community that blacks are able to control themselves. The numbers game is very profitable -- enough so that mob boss Lucky Luciano (Andy Garcia) wants in on the action. He assigns one of his key men, Dutch Schultz (Tim Roth), to try to strike a deal with Stephanie

Photo: Vanessa Williams and Sasha Gabriella Fox - "Meet The Browns" premiere, March 13, 2008

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Video: Shaft

Video Detective — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:15:40 -0400

This action drama puts a new spin on Shaft, one of the key blaxploitation films of the 1970s. John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson), the namesake nephew of the legendary private eye (Richard Roundtree), is a street-smart police detective who with his partner Carmen Velez (Vanessa L. Williams) has been assigned to a racially motivated murder case, in which a black college student was killed in front of a restaurant by Walter Williams Jr. (Christian Bale), the sociopathic son of a New York construction tycoon, who then fled the country rather than face prosecution. Diane Palmieri (Toni Collette), a waitress on a smoke break, saw the murder, but she doesn't want to talk to the police. Two years later, Walter is forced to return to New York, but without Diane's testimony, the city doesn't have much of a case. Soon, Shaft, Walter Junior, and Walter Senior's goons are all looking for Diane, with Junior enlisting the help of Peoples Hernandez (Jeffrey Wright), a small-time drug dealer who will do anything to move into the

Video: Under The Gun

Video Detective — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:09:29 -0400

Singer and former Miss America Vanessa L. Williams makes her screen debut in this crime-action film. Mike Braxton (Sam Jones) is a policeman in St. Louis, Missouri. He responds to an urgent summons from his brother Tony (Nick Cassavetes), a cop in Los Angeles. Mike gets to L.A. and finds that his brother's been murdered. He learns that Tony was investigating the arms-smuggling operation of Simon Stone (John Russell). Mike forms an alliance with Stone's lawyer (Williams), who's learned such disturbing things about him that she's willing to violate client-lawyer confidentiality. The pair work together to bring the arms dealer to justice. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide.

Photo: Vanessa Williams - The 33rd Annual March of Dimes Beauty Ball at Cipriani in New York City, March 12, 2008

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Video: Dance with Me

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:58:28 -0400

Photo: Vanessa Williams - The Premiere of Disney's 'Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best Of Both Worlds' show, January 17, 2008

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Photo: Vanessa Williams and daughter Sasha Fox - The Disney Family Night at High School Musical, December 14, 2007

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Photo: Vanessa Williams - The 30th annual Kennedy Center Honors, December 2, 2007

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Photo: Vanessa Williams and Rebecca De Mornay - The Juicy Couture Shopping Day to Benefit Womens Cancer Research Fund, November 29, 2007

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Photo: Vanessa Williams and Rick Fox with their daughter - The Camp Ronald McDonald For Good Times 15th Annual Family Halloween Carnival, October 21, 2007

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Photo: Michael Urie and Vanessa L. Williams - TV Guide post-Emmy Awards party, Sept. 16, 2007

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Photo: America Ferrera and Vanessa Williams - The 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, September 16, 2007

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Photo: Vanessa Williams - Entertainment Weekly's 5th Annual Emmy Celebration, September 15, 2007

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Photo: Vanessa Williams - The Gotham And Hamptons Magazines Celebrate With Cover Star Vanessa Williams party in East Hampton, New York, August 4, 2007

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Photo: Vanessa Williams - The 61st Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, June 10, 2007

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Photo: Vanessa Williams - The 2007 CFDA Fashion Awards at The New York Public Library in New York City, June 4, 2007

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Photo: America Ferrera and Vanessa Williams - The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Presents An Evening with “Ugly Betty", April 30, 2007

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Photo: Vanessa Williams - Celebrates Her Birthday With a Star On The Hollywood Walk of Fame, March 19, 2007

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Photo: Becki Newton, America Ferrera, Vanessa Williams and Rebecca Romijn - The 24th Annual William S. Paley Television Festival's An Evening with "Ugly Betty", March 12, 2007

courtesy Kevin Parry/WireImage.com — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0400

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Photo: Vanessa Williams - The 24th Annual William S. Paley Television Festival's An Evening with "Ugly Betty", March 12, 2007

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Photo: Mary J. Blige and Vanessa Williams - The 38th Annual NAACP Image Awards, March 2, 2007

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Photo: Vanessa Williams - The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2007 Carmen Marc Valvo Collection, February 9, 2007

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Photo: Vanessa Williams - The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards, January 15, 2007

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Photo: Vanessa Williams - The 38th Annual NAACP Image Awards Nomination Press Conference, January 9, 2007

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Photo: Vanessa Williams - The 2006 Dallas Fashion Awards, October 28, 2006

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Photo: Vanessa Williams - The ABC All Star Party 2006, July 19, 2006

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Photo: Vanessa Williams - Launch for the Marshalls "Becoming Myself" Tour in New York City, May 8, 2006

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Photo: Vanessa L. Williams - Olympus Fashion Week, Feb. 8, 2006

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Photo: Vanessa L. Williams with Elmo - Sesame Workshop's Third Annual Benefit Gala, June 1, 2005

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Photo: Vanessa L. Williams, Rick Fox and family - "Johnson Family Vacation" Los Angeles Premiere, March 31, 2004

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