Up Next in 2010: 3-D TV

Nothing sells during the holidays quite like TVs -- big screen, small screen, any screen -- but 2010 will be the Year of the TV is one manufacturer has anything to do with it. LG Electronics, which stakes its claim in telecom innovation, claims it will sell 400,000 big screen televisions in 2010, and all of them will have 3D capabilities. That means football games, commercials, even the evening news and the weatherman will JUMP OUT at you. Also in 2010 it is rumored that marijuana legalization will finally break though. So that would be 3D TV and legal weed across your neighborhood bar scene and everywhere. TV watching just took on a whole 'nother dimension. I don't know about you, but we may need reservations for best couch-potato positions.

Stan Lathan: The Hardest Working Man in Show Biz?

When we think about the greatest African-American contributor in cinema, people automatically jump to Spike Lee; more contemplative heads would opt for Melvin Van Peebles.
Both are impressive, but their resumes simply wilt under the force of one Stan Lathan, who's been in the business from a directorial perspective for nearly 40 years.
To ring out some of his titles is to exhaust the mind: "Hill Street Blues," "Miami Vice," "The Waltons," "Falcon Crest," "Remington Steele," "Fame," and "Roc," then the 1990s, "Martin," "Moesha," "The Parkers," "The Steve Harvey Show," "Amen," "Eve," and 'All of Us".. "Chapelle's Show", the list goes on.
He and Russell Simmons were responsible for "Def Comedy Jam" and are responsible for "Run's House."
And, yes, Sanaa is one of his five children.
These days Stan is busy molding the Simmons Lathan Media Group with mogul Russell Simmons.
Is Stan the hardest working black man in show business or what?