Gina Telaroli
June 14, 2008 | 7:18 pm EST
Happy Father’s Day! (I hope you have a good one). Luckily for you these Top 10 Movie Dads are available all year round. Here’s the final Top 10, in a brands new order - including a new #1 and #2 that haven’t been listed yet. Keep in mind these Dads may not be the most typical (they’re all actually pretty unique) , but they are definitely the most dynamic and interesting to watch on the screen.
Be sure to look after the jump to see who are number 1 and 2 are!
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The sixth look at one of my favorite movie dads. (#1 #2 #3 #4 and #5)
Elliot Hopper (Ghost Dad) in Ghost Dad
Bill Cosby will always be one of the ultimate TV Dads, and any fan of Bill Cosby should be a fan of one of his fatherly movie ventures, Ghost Dad. It’s mostly silly and full of gags, but watching Cosby sink into the floor and ride the lines between our world and another is great fun. Plus, the film is about him looking out for his kids - so it’s good for the entire family. Admittedly, I haven’t seen the film since in quite some time, but I remember loving it when I was a kid. And interestingly enough I just learned that Sidney Poitier directed it, which earns major bonus points with the adult me.
takepart to learn about Bill Cosby’s charity the Ennis William Cosby Foundation and click click click for a video clue to how awesome Ghost Dad is
Richard Widmark, who debuted in Kiss of Death died at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, after a long illness. He was 93 and is survived by his wife, Susan Blanchard, and his daughter, Anne Heath Widmark, who was married to baseball player Sandy Koufax. Widmark would win an Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in Kiss of Death as Tommy Udo, who enjoyed pushing old ladies down the stairs.
But in real life, Widmark who made over 75 films, was a great guy. Widmark was embarrassed to play the racist character in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s No Way Out and would apologize to Sidney Poitier, with whom he became friends, after shooting scenes. The film was critical of of racism.
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A Raisin in the Sun, is the groundbreaking 1959 play written by Lorraine Hansberry, the first black woman to have a play produced on Broadway. In 1961, a film version of A Raisin in the Sun was released featuring its original Broadway cast of Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett, Jr. and John Fiedler. Hansberry wrote the screenplay, and the film was directed by Daniel Petrie.
Tonight the stage goes to screen again as the cast of the 2004 Broadway production of a Raisin in the Sun (Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, and Sanaa Lathan) reprise their roles for the ABC TV adaptation. Check out this trailer ( and a little promo from Sean Combs aka P. Diddy)
The story is about the Youngers, a family hopping to achieve their American dream while living on Chicago’s South Side in the 1950s. When Lena (Rashad) gets a $10,000 life insurance check, the family must figure out how to best use the money. Walter Lee Jr. (Combs) wants to start a business, his wife Ruth (McDonald) wants a new home, and his sister Beneatha (Lathan) wants to finish up college so she can become a doctor.
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Since the Academy Awards coincide with Black History Month, I thought it would be appropriate to highlight the top 10 black actors who have won Oscars for Best Actor/Actress in a Leading Role. So Hollywood–which harbors, aids and abets, politically-correct, identity-politics-spouting, hand-out giving, limousine liberals–can finally shut up about the so-called “racism” and all the other fake “isms” they claim exist and need to be addressed. Here’s the list of black Academy Award Winners for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Leading Role, in chronological order.
1. 1963: Sidney Poitier wins for his role as Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field, becoming the first African-American actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. 
1964-2000: Lots of white winners.
2. 2001: Denzel Washington wins Read the rest of this entry »for his role as civil rights luminary and martyr Malcolm X in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, wins for his role as Rubin Carter, the real life legendary boxer, convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, who overcomes the racist criminal justice system, police corruption and brutality, and proves his innocence through his persuasive and passionate autobiography in Hurricane, for his role as the corrupt, criminal, violent, lecherous cop, Alonzo Harris, in Training Day.