Wells Fargo Home Mortgage to sponsor second annual Evenings of Excellence

Free inspirational seminars are targeted to Caribbean and African-American communities in South Florida and New York

NEW YORK, United States, Friday July 18, 2014 - The second annual Evenings of Excellence series, supported by Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, is being planned for the fall in South Florida and the New York metropolitan area.
Slated for October 21, 2014 (Miami/Fort Lauderdale) and November 12, 2014 (New York City) from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., the two evenings will feature presentations from Caribbean author, economist and motivational speaker Zhivargo Laing, who delivers an inspiring message of personal empowerment and economic prosperity, as well as other well-known personalities and leaders from the media, entertainment, business and government sectors.

The overarching theme for Evenings of Excellence will be building and leveraging the intellectual, financial, spiritual and cultural strength of the Caribbean- and African-American communities.

“Wells Fargo is committed to diversity and inclusion, and we look forward to strengthening our relationship with Caribbean- and African-American communities in these two very important markets,” said Cerita Battles, senior vice president and head of retail diverse segments at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, announcing the company’s support for the 2014 series.

These events, which are free to the public, will serve as a platform for discussing serious, topical issues, but they will also be fun-filled and enjoyable, with musical entertainment and several Caribbean destinations and hotels offering prize giveaways.

“What we started last year was very inspirational and the messages shared with participants have the potential to positively impact large communities across the country,” said Battles.

The Evenings of Excellence series is also supported by Marketplace Excellence, the Caribbean Media Exchange (CMEx) and Finn Partners.

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Billy Bob Thornton for Fargo series

Entertainment

Saturday, August 03, 2013

BEVERLY HILLS, USA (AP) — Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton will star in the TV version of the film Fargo.FX network boss John Landgraf said Friday that Thornton has signed on to a limited series based on the 1996 crime comedy-drama. It’s scheduled for a 10-episode run on FX next spring.Thornton will play a rootless con artist.

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Billy Bob Thornton for Fargo series

Coen Brothers bring Fargo to TV

5 August 2013 Last updated at 04:11 ET Billy Bob Thornton previously starred in the Coen Brothers’ film The Man Who Wasn’t There The Coen Brothers are turning their Oscar-winning movie Fargo into a TV series, with long-term collaborator Billy Bob Thornton in the lead role.

The 1996 film starred Frances McDormand as a determined, pregnant police chief on the trail of two bumbling criminals.

She won an Oscar for the role, while Joel and Ethan Coen took home the best original screenplay award.

The 10-part TV series, for US channel FX, will involve brand new characters and a new scenario.

Thornton, 57, will play Lorne Malvo, described as a “a rootless, manipulative man who meets a small town insurance salesman and sets him on a path of destruction.”

The actor previously starred in the Coen Brothers’ films The Man Who Wasn’t There and Intolerable Cruelty. His other screen credits include Bad Santa and Monster’s Ball.

FX network boss John Landgraf said that, although there was no cross-over with the original, the Fargo TV show would be “remarkably true to the film”.

Joel and Ethan Coen’s films include O Brother, Where Art Thou? and True Grit

Filming will take place in Canada, and the drama is expected to be shown in the US next spring.

The Coen Brothers are executive producers, marking their first venture into television after a film career that his produced cult classics such as The Big Lebowski and box office hits like No Country For Old Men.

Fargo, regarded as their mainstream breakthrough, was included in the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest American Movies list, and inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2006.

It opens with a caption saying “this is a true story” but Joel Coen later admitted “it was actually all made up”.

“We thought that if we did something where we told the audience up front was a true story, that they’d allow you to do things they wouldn’t normally allow you to do, if they thought it was fiction,” he told Venice Magazine in 1998.

The Coen brother premiered their latest film Inside Llewyn Davis at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

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