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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

GIrls Star Lena Dunham is standing up against Racism

Lena Dunham is urging her fellow "Obies" to stick together as her alma mater in Ohio wrestles with reports of racism. The creator and star of HBO's "Girls" wrote on her Twitter account Monday after learning about racist graffiti at famously liberal Oberlin College.

The school about 30 miles from Cleveland was among the first to admit blacks. And the city of Oberlin was a stop on the Underground Railroad that aided escaped slaves. Dunham tweeted: "Hey Obies, remember the beautiful, inclusive and downright revolutionary history of the place you call home. Protect each other."

Racist and anti-Semitic messages have been found on campus, and classes were cancelled Monday after a report of someone wearing a Klan-type hooded robe.

"Girls" features several characters who met while attending Oberlin.

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TV Casting News: Kim Wayans Joins Reckless (CBS), Lenora Crichlow Joins Untitled ABC Comedy

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Kim Wayans has joined the cast of CBS’ drama pilot Reckless, which will be directed by Catherine Hardwicke, from a script penned by Dana Stevens.

Set in Charleston, South Carolina, Reckless centers on a beautiful big city litigator and a Southern attorney who struggle to hide their intense attraction to one another, while also professionally battling over a police sex scandal.

Ms Wayans will play a character named Vi, who is paralegal to our litigator from New York (the role hasn't been cast yet).

Cam Gigandet will play the Southern attorney.

Wayans was last seen on the big screen in Pariah, and on the small screen in an episode of Criminal Minds.
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Brit actress Lenora Crichlow continues to push her way into mainstream American consciousness, as she's joins the cast of an ABC pilot from the Cullen Brothers.

The star of BBC Three's critically-acclaimed supernatural drama series Being Human currently in its final season) has booked a role in the untitled Cullen Brothers comedy which centers on "Terry Gannon (Maggie Lawson), a recently divorced single mother who temporarily moves in with her estranged father (James Caan), a beer-swilling former baseball player."

Crichlow will play a character named Gigi, described as a mom whose son tries out for Little League with Terry’s son.

Deadline states that Crichlow is getting a lot of looks for various pilots here in the USA, so there might be more casting announcements coming.

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