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Good Times was a groundbreaking show with a beloved cast that redefined Black families on TV in the '70s. Lead actors like Esther Rolle and Ja'net DuBois created iconic characters that resonated with audiences. The passing of cast members like Johnny Brown and Ben Powers is a sad reminder of the show's impact on TV history.

Good Times was a beloved '70s American sitcom on CBS, and while a significant number of the cast remains working, a few notable deaths of the show's actors have since occurred. The Evans on Good Times is one of the families that helped redefine what it meant to be Black on TV when the sitcom premiered in February 1974. It lasted for six seasons, ending in August 1979. Good Times was the first African-American two-parent family sitcom on television, following Florida and James Evans, two hardworking Chicagoans, and their family of five.

A spinoff of All in the Family,...

Review by Dana Jung

Most people don.t know, or at least know very little, about the Pow camps that the United States

maintained during World War II. Numbering in the hundreds, in nearly every state of the Union, these

camps at their peak housed almost half a million German and Japanese prisoners. Films based on these

camps have been few (Summer Of My German Soldier, Farewell To Manzanar, Come See The

Paradise) and mostly grim reminders of a dark period in American history. Fort McCoy, a new movie

co-directed by Michael Worth and writer/star Kate Connor, tells a fact-based story set against the

backdrop of the Army base of the title, of one summer in the life of an American family, circa 1944.

The Stirns move to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin when the father, Frank (Eric Stoltz), takes a position as a

barber for the Army base. With his wife Ruby (Connor), sister-in-law Anna,...