Denzel Knows the Power of a Good Debate

December 20, 2007

Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker showed off The Great Debaters in NYC last night. Newlyweds Harvey Weinstein and Georgina Chapman were also in the house but there was no sign of Oprah this time around. In the movie, Denzel plays a professor who helps get a debate team started at all-black Wiley College in Texas in 1935 and apparently he was still feeling his character's spirit this week. On Tuesday it was announced that he had donated $1 million to re-establish the debate team at Wiley. Sounds like Denzel's new movie can still teach us a lesson, even many decades later.

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26 Comments

ladybugrenee 5 years 21 weeks

whats the deal with him? nice or not?

IzzieG 5 years 21 weeks

p.s. I think this is because he doesn't have a giant company like Disney to actually run the business end of things. HW (and brother) are desperate to become the next Murdoch(s) of the world, which is never going to happen because they're nowhere near as smart or savvy. Trying to become a media mogul, not knowing how to run a business, losing nearly ten of your top executives within a year of starting your company, oh, and, getting totally distracted with your pretty young girlfriend's company is only going to cause almost all of the movies you make to fail. Too bad, they used to make some great things. They just got too greedy....

IzzieG 5 years 21 weeks

I kind of agree that this movie will bomb. Pretty much anything Harvey Weinstein touches these days turns to shit (movie-wise).

tiabia 5 years 21 weeks

j2ne1n9,how did you know, :rotfl:I don't think the movie will "bomb"...seriously, can anything be worse than The Golden Compass in terms of 2007 bombs...LOL

tiabia 5 years 21 weeks

j2ne1n9, how did you know, :rotfl: I don't think the movie will "bomb"...seriously, can anything be worse than The Golden Compass in terms of 2007 bombs...LOL

CaterpillarGirl 5 years 21 weeks

this movie will bomb

CaterpillarGirl 5 years 21 weeks

this movie will bomb

j2e1n9 5 years 21 weeks

Oh ok, and let me guess, he probably ended a long, long marriage to someone else so that he could marry the young girl. Classy.

pinkdragonfly 5 years 22 weeks

Denzel is amazing both on- and off-screen! He seems to be so grounded and REAL...nice to see in such a huge celebrity!

tkoblondee 5 years 22 weeks

I have lots of respect for Denzel!!

THoMaS_CRoWN 5 years 22 weeks

My man!!!

THoMaS_CRoWN 5 years 22 weeks

My man!!!

Jillness 5 years 22 weeks

The thought of fat, hairy, sweaty Weinstein with that beautiful young girl makes me ill. I could NEVER do that, no matter how much money he had!

Jillness 5 years 22 weeks

The thought of fat, hairy, sweaty Weinstein with that beautiful young girl makes me ill. I could NEVER do that, no matter how much money he had!

IzzieG 5 years 22 weeks

Yeah, true love. Oh, right, The Weinstein Company gave a nice amount of money to that brunette's fashion house...and made sure to get her dresses on the backs of all of those actresses who apparently need free clothing (J. Lo, Lindsay Lohan, etc). Yeah, they married for love. (oh, and she's kind of weird looking in person). Photographs well, but frozen in real life. Sorry, Silver.

IzzieG 5 years 22 weeks

tiabia 5 years 22 weeks

Little Jurnee Smollett has truly grown into a beautiful woman!!!