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It would not be Black History Month without a shout-out to Lewis Howard Latimer, the African-American inventor whose groundbreaking innovations led to lightbulbs and modern telecommunications. Or George Washington Carver, the scientist who helped revolutionize agriculture and whose work with crops, including peanuts, is credited with eventually leading to grocery-store shelves stocked with peanut butter. Or Adelaide Hall, the jazz singer who played a big part in the Harlem Renaissance. Or Sherman McDaniels, the legendary TV host who introduced major soul, hip-hop, R&b and funk artists into your home...

Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, and Ingrid Bergman: The 'Notorious' British (Hitchcock, Grant) and Swedish (Bergman) talent. British actors and directors in Hollywood; Hollywood actors and directors in Britain: Anthony Slide's 'A Special Relationship.' 'A Special Relationship' Q&A: Britain in Hollywood and Hollywood in Britain First of all, what made you think of a book on “the special relationship” between the American and British film industries – particularly on the British side? I was aware of a couple of books on the British in Hollywood, but I wanted to move beyond that somewhat limited discussion and document the whole British/American relationship as it applied to filmmaking. Growing up in England, I had always been interested in the history of the British cinema, but generally my writing on film history has been concentrated on America. I suppose to a certain extent I wanted to go back into my archives,...

Los Angeles - Mary Lambert has a little boast, for always, at every family reunion. "'Oh, your cousin went to Dartmouth? Well, I sang with Madonna at the Grammys.'" It's been a whirlwind of a year for the singer, who holds down the hook on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Same Love." Lambert stopped by the HitFix video studios for our premiere episode of HitFix Mix, our music interview and mixtape show. "I have different little life-hacks," Mary Lambert explained how she keeps her head together. This is an artist who called her forthcoming album "Heart On My Sleeve." And her new single "Secrets," in which she reveals personal "secrets" like having bipolar disorder. And her live show is deeply intimately vulnerable. "There's a series of things I do before... a complete meltdown." Take a deep breath, collect yourself, and watch our abridged chat, above. This show aims to have in-depth interviews with artists,...