Film and Television
- Bryan Batt, actor
- Kitty Carlisle, entertainer
- John Carroll, actor and singer
- Patricia Clarkson, actor
- Marshall Colt, psychologist and former actor
- Ellen DeGeneres comedienne, talk show host
- Vance DeGeneres, actor and screenwriter
- Raquel "Rocsi" Diaz, television host and personality on BET's 106 and Park
- John Goodman, actor
- Cheryl Holdridge, actress and Mouseketeer
- Indigo (actress), actress
- Eddie Jemison,actor
- Bayn Johnson, former child actress and singer
- Leatrice Joy, actress
- Dorothy Lamour, actress
- John Larroquette, actor
- Sabrina LeBeauf,actress
- Anthony Mackie, actor
- Adah Isaacs Menken, actress
- Taylor Miller, actress
- Garrett Morris, comedian
- Arthel Neville, journalist
- Sid Noel, actor, portrayed Morgus the Magnificent
- Chris Owens, burlesque performer and entrepreneur
- Pauley Perrette, actress
- Tyler Perry, actor, director
- Wendell Pierce, actor, Detective Bunk Moreland in The Wire
- Godfrey Reggio, experimental filmmaker/documentarian (Qatsi trilogy)
- Sydney Shields stage actress
- Richard Simmons, entertainer
- Ian Somerhalder, actor
- Ben Turpin, silent film comedian
- Ray Walston, actor
- Carl Weathers, actor, football player
- Walter Williams, Creator of Mr. Bill
- Reese Witherspoon, actress
- Allison Harvard, the runner-up of twelfth cycle of America's Next Top Model
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“The obvious parallels between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz have frequently been noted: in both there is the orphan hero who is raised on a farm by an aunt and uncle and yearns to escape to adventure. Obi-wan Kenobi resembles the Wizard; the loyal, plucky little robot R2D2 is Toto; C3PO is the Tin Man; and Chewbacca is the Cowardly Lion. Darth Vader replaces the Wicked Witch: this is a patriarchy rather than a matriarchy.”
—Andrew Gordon, U.S. educator, critic. “The Inescapable Family in American Science Fiction and Fantasy Films,” Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1992)
“The obvious parallels between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz have frequently been noted: in both there is the orphan hero who is raised on a farm by an aunt and uncle and yearns to escape to adventure. Obi-wan Kenobi resembles the Wizard; the loyal, plucky little robot R2D2 is Toto; C3PO is the Tin Man; and Chewbacca is the Cowardly Lion. Darth Vader replaces the Wicked Witch: this is a patriarchy rather than a matriarchy.”
—Andrew Gordon, U.S. educator, critic. “The Inescapable Family in American Science Fiction and Fantasy Films,” Journal of Popular Film and Television (Summer 1992)
“All the old supports going, gone, this man reaches out a hand to steady himself on a ledge of rough brick that is warm in the sun: his hand feeds him messages of solidity, but his mind messages of destruction, for this breathing substance, made of earth, will be a dance of atoms, he knows it, his intelligence tells him so: there will soon be war, he is in the middle of war, where he stands will be a waste, mounds of rubble, and this solid earthy substance will be a film of dust on ruins.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)