Michael Gravesande

Opinion former? Raconteur? Fashionista? Or just a plain old #TV #News #Editor at the #BBC? Thoughts my own, ideas definitely borrowed. Any views expressed...

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

Helen McCrory styling out forgetting her glasses by presenting the Leading Actor category at the 2019 #BAFTATV awards in her sunnies!

RIP to one of our best screen and stage talents.

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

@lynnrusk Hi Lynn BBC News here could you follow me please?

Many thanks,
Mike

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

104-year-old Pauline Patton was born before women and Black people were guaranteed the right to VOTE.
#USElection2024
#Kamala
#Trump

[Rudolph Walker CBE @RudolphWalkerDA]

At last!! My Autobiography ‘Walking With Dignity’ is out 26 Sept. You can preorder on https://t.co/3kR0k7rL7o

I hope you enjoy. Do spread the word

#autobiography #mylife #actorslife #FamilyFirst

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

“I want them to know it was me,” her mumbled words, almost lost in a sea of helium as the balloons descended from the heavens like a confetti-filled apocalypse, turning the arena into a colorful, chaotic circus.
#DNC2024
#KamalaHarris
#DNC2024CHICAGO

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

@franklinleonard Former President Barack Obama and his team react backstage to Michelle Obama's "black jobs" line during her speech, which is being hailed as one of the greatest ever delivered at a convention, as the crowd at the #DNC responds.

[Richard Gaisford @richardgaisford]

Sunrise in Southport. A scene of devastation surrounding the mosque on St Luke’s Road after an angry mob attacked police last night. Bricks, bottles, fireworks sit alongside bits of a burnt out police vehicle - metal melted in the heat. @GMB

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

I think in America they call this a vibe shift.

New Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll for the US presidential election.

Michigan 🟦 Harris +11
Wisconsin 🟦 Harris +2
Arizona 🟦 Harris +2
Nevada 🟦 Harris +2
Georgia 🟨 TIED
North Carolina 🟥 Trump +2
#Kamala
#Trump

[Simon Jones @SimonJonesNews]

The row over Rwanda rumbles on…

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

In 24 hours, Kamala Harris has had 44,000 black women & 20,000 black men join a Zoom call for her election, raised $81 million, seen 30,000 new volunteers sign up for her campaign & has arguably articulated the Democrat’s best attack line of election year

Something is happening

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

In the UK, we have an overwhelming love for our vegetables
A turnip defined an England football manager
A lettuce lasted longer than a prime minister
And now an asparagus is predicting (possibly accurately) the next winner of the US presidential election
#JoeBiden
#KamalaHarris

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

@Bakari_Sellers Here’s an ad from Kamala Harris' primary campaign 5 years ago if anyone was curious what a general election against Trump would look like.
#JoeBiden
#Biden

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

@Acyn Here’s an ad from Kamala Harris' primary campaign 5 years ago if anyone was curious what a general election against Trump would look like.
#JoeBiden
#Biden

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

Here’s an ad from Kamala Harris' primary campaign 5 years ago if anyone was curious what a general election against Donald Trump would look like.
#JoeBiden

[Kiefer Sutherland @RealKiefer]

With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

Jaws was released 49 years ago today. Regarded the first summer blockbuster & a landmark of Hollywood.

One of the standout moments is the dolly zoom shot into Brody. Spielberg took it from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. It was created by Hitchcock’s camera operator, Irmin Roberts.

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

Amadou Onana. Born in Senegal. Raised in Belgium. Fluent in five languages, English, French, Dutch, German and "Don't Mess with me and my South London accent". #EURO2024

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

Best game of the Euro’s so far, end to end! Football at it's most beautiful!!
#Türkiye
#Euro2024    #TURGEO

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

Arsenal's Kevin Campbell along with Ian Wright were part of the new generation of Black footballers: “Being a footballer was a way out of Brixton, there was a lot of racism & police harassment going on & for someone who could play football, it was the only route I could see out”

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

Fred Astaire called this the greatest movie musical sequence he had ever seen.

Gregory Hines said if a biopic of the Nicholas Brothers was ever made, their dance routines would have to be computer-generated as no one alive could emulate them.

Stormy Weather (1943)

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

What's the greatest dance sequence in a movie you've ever seen?

[Michael Gravesande @OldBlackHack]

Sometimes Twitter (not X) is just amazing!

[It’s Levels To Thissss @FlawsofCouture]

Yes, her name is Nguyen Nguyen. My grade 6 classmate that sat in front of me. She never spoke to anyone. Not even the teacher. I mean, EVER. But she was brilliant & never needed help with anything. We would walk to school together, & even then—not a single word. Then one day…