NGO OKAFOR STARS OPPOSITE JONAH HILL AND JAMES FRANCO

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NGO OKAFOR STARS OPPOSITE JONAH HILL AND JAMES FRANCO IN “TRUE STORY”, PRODUCED BY BRAD PITT

New York, New York, May 13th, 2013—The star meter for the most downloaded black male model,  Ngo Okafor, continues to skyrocket. Okafor’s body of work as an actor is stacking up at a furious pace. Ngo has just wrapped shooting his part in the feature film, “True Story”, opposite Hollywood heavy hitters Jonah Hill and James Franco. “True Story” is produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. Ngo Okafor plays the part of Ibrahim, an Ibo (Nigerian language) translator, in the film.

“True Story,” an adaptation of New York Times journalist Michael Finkel’s 2006 memoir of the same name, chronicles Finkel’s discovery that his identity had been stolen by Christian Longo, a fugitive who was placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list after murdering his family and fleeing to Mexico. Hill is portraying Finkel on screen, with James Franco playing the role of Longo.

Mr. Finkel was banished as a contributing writer for The New York Times in early 2002 for faking much of a magazine cover storyabout the travails of a young African plantation worker, who turned out to be a composite. Seeking redemption, he quickly struck up what proved to be a mutually exploitive relationship — mixing friendship, journalism and some bizarre exploration of shared reality — with one Christian Longo.

Mr. Longo had just murdered his wife and three children in Oregon. And then, improbably, Mr. Longo assumed Mr. Finkel’s identity as he went on the lam outside the United States.

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BRAZILIAN TODDLER WAKES UP AT HIS FUNERAL

I quickly browsed this story last week, but didn’t pay much attention to it because I thought that it was not true. It is real though. I’ve seen it a couple of more times and this time it held my attention.

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Back in the old days, when someone died, you’d have a “wake” for them. While we still do this today, the reasoning isn’t the same. These days, we do it to remember our lost loved one, to look at old pictures together and commiserate. Back then, though, wakes were held to make sure the person was really dead, which is the subject of this story. Earlier this month in Brazil, a two-year-old boy woke up at his own funeral, asked for some water, then laid back down, only this time, he was actually dead.

The child’s family was naturally devastated.

Santos said his son was a victim of medical malpractice, and said he has registered a complaint with the police.

The boy’s father, Antonio Santos, said, “Everybody started to scream, we couldn’t believe our eyes. Then we thought a miracle had taken place and our boy had come back to life. Then Kelvin just laid back down, the way he was. We couldn’t wake him. He was dead again.”

The family rushed the boy back to the hospital, where doctors reexamined him but pronounced him dead again, unfortunately.

“They assured me that he really was dead and gave me no explanation for what we had just seen and heard,” Santos said.

Kelvin Santos had supposedly died earlier that week, and the doctors said at the time that he had stopped breathing during pneumonia treatment. Santos said that his son was a victim of medical malpractice, and has registered a complaint with the police.

“Dead people don’t just wake up and talk. I’m determined to find out the truth,” Santos said.

The family delayed the funeral for a while just to make sure, but ended up burying the boy later that day.

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MIKE TYSON HEADED TO BROADWAY WITH “UNDISPUTED TRUTH”, A ONE MAN SHOW

Mike Tyson is making the popular move from the big screen to Broadway with his one-man show, “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth.”

The production, under the direction of Spike Lee, will play at the Longacre Theatre for six nights only starting July 31.

According to a website for the show, “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” is “a rare, personal look inside the life and mind of one of the most feared men ever to wear the heavyweight crown.” The site also assures ticket holders that they’ll be treated to a “riveting one-man show [that] goes beyond the headlines, behind-the-scenes and between the lines to deliver a must-see theatrical knockout.”

Tyson performed the show in Vegas earlier this year, and he told CNN at the time that “Undisputed Truth” is compiled from “the stories of my life that were basically in the headlines,” but also “the underlining story: My relationship with my wife, my conviction, my upbringing, the death of my mother … just who I was as a child back  then, and who I am now.”

According to Playbill.com, “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” was written by his wife, Kiki Tyson, and director Randy Johnson, and shows the good and the bad of Tyson’s history. The boxer said in a statement that to share the “highlights and lowlights of my life with New York is especially important to me as I was born and raised in Brooklyn.”

And according to director Lee, Tyson is a “great storyteller,” as he said in a statement.

“Human beings want to hear stories. Whether it’s a play, a documentary … a song, a musical, a novel or a movie, we love to hear stories,” Lee said. “And, with Mike Tyson on stage, you are going to hear a great American story.”

Tickets for the 90-minute show, which runs July 31 through August 5, are on sale now via Telecharge.com as well as by phone.

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