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6C Wednesday, May 6, 2015 charlotteobserver.com The Charlotte Observer Entertainment CBS THIS MORNING: Nikki Haley; Willie Nelson; Kayvon Beyk- pour. (7 a.m., WBTV, channel 3) GOOD MORNING AMERICA: Bradley Cooper; Mariah Carey. (7 a.m., WSOC, channel 9) TODAY: Taryn Brumfitt; Alan Thicke; Cory Michael Smith; David Burtka; Tituss Burgess. (7 a.m., WCNC, channel 36) LIVE! WITH KELLY AND MICHAEL: Reese Witherspoon (9 a.m., WSOC, channel 9) RACHAEL RAY: Actor Jerry baby animals; Gina Rodri- guez the (10 a.m., WJZY, channel 46) CHARLOTTE TODAY WITH COLLEEN ODEGAARD AND EUGENE ROBINSON: Best tips for grilling; how much do you know about cholesterol, your knowledge. (11 a.m., WCNC, channel 36) THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW: Diane Keaton Flights Hailee Steinfeld Perfect (5 p.m., WCCB, channel 18) THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON: Kerry Wash- ington; Jesse Tyler Ferguson; Noel Gallagher.

(11:34 p.m., WCNC, channel 36) JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE: Adam Levine; Nicholas Hoult; Maroon 5 performs. (11:35 p.m., WSOC, channel 9) LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN: Actor Martin Short; Norah Jones performs. (11:35 p.m., WBTV, channel 3) LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS: Anna Wintour; Willie Nelson; Twin Shadow performs. (12:36 a.m., WCNC, channel 36) THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN: Actor Dana Car- vey. (12:37 a.m., WBTV, channel 3) THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA 8 p.m.

WCNC The slaying of a young nightclub frequenter is linked to robberies in New so-called Diamond District, giving Laura (Debra Mess- ing) and her comrades two cases in one in the new episode Mystery of the Crooked (Josh Lucas) intrusion on relationship with Tony (Neal Bledsoe) causes her to reconsider the state of her per- sonal life. Janel Parrish Little and Frankie Muniz in the guest star. CRIMINAL MINDS 9 p.m. WBTV A threat that has been looming over (Jennifer Love Hewitt) niece Meg (Hailey Sole) becomes real in the new episode the finale of the procedural 10th season. The youngster and her best friend are kidnapped, challenging Kate to stay focused and professional when the disap- pearances appear to be linked to an online predator.

Wednesday CHAN 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 WBTV Survivor A crazy tribal council. (N) cc Criminal Minds niece is kidnapped. (N) CSI: Cyber Click Your Poi- son (N) cc News at 11 PM Late Show Letterman WSOC The Middle (N) The Gold- bergs (N) Modern Family (N) blackish (9:31) (N) Nashville team worries about her. (N) News To- night Jimmy Kim- mel Live WCNC The Mysteries of Laura Stopping a robbery crew. Law Order: Special Vic- tims Unit (N) Chicago PD My Girl A cafe is bombed.

NBC Char- lotte Tonight Show 2 WCCB Arrow Oliver must com- plete two final tasks. (N) Supernatural Dark Dynasty (N) cc WCCB News at 10 WCCB News Edge The Simp- sons cc King of the Hill cc WJZY American Idol Top 3 Perform The top three perform; Martina McBride. (N) cc Fox 46 News at 10p (N) Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men WMYT The Walking Dead Secrets The Walking Dead The Jeffer- sons Sanford Son Engagement Family Guy cc WAXN Meet the Browns Meet the Browns Dr. Phil (N) cc Eyewitness News on TV-64 (N) cc Anger Man- agement Anger Man- agement WNSC Nature Pros and cons of caring for parrots. cc NOVA The wreck of a Ger- man submarine.

(N) Super Skyscrapers Build- ing the Future cc Tavis Smiley (N) cc BBC World News cc WTVI The Roosevelts: An Intimate History Cousins Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt. cc (DVS) Frontline How the Ebola outbreak began. (N) cc NOVA How police identify suspects. WUNG Nature Pros and cons of caring for parrots. cc NOVA The wreck of a Ger- man submarine.

(N) Super Skyscrapers Build- ing the Future cc Waiting for God cc BBC World News cc ESPN (7:00) MLB Baseball: Baltimore Orioles at New York Mets. From Citi Field in Flushing, N.Y. (Live) Profile (N) SportsCenter (N) (Live) cc FS1 (7:00) Golf: U.S. Amateur Four Ball, Match. (N) UFC Insider The Ultimate Fighter (N) cc FOX Sports Live (N) (Live) cc GOLF (7:00) Live From (N) (Live) Live From AMC Movie: I Am Legend (2007) Will Smith.

Bloodthirsty plague victims surround a lone survivor. Movie: Terminator Salvation (2009, Science Fiction) Christian Bale, Sam Worthington. cc HBO REAL Sports With Bryant Gumbel cc Movie: Draft Day (2014) Kevin Costner. The Cleveland GM goes after the top draft pick. Real Time With Bill Maher cc TCM Movie: The Killing (1956) Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray.

cc Movie The Asphalt Jungle (1950, Crime Drama) Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe. cc (DVS) Movie Wednesday Best BetsWednesday Talk Shows For more complete listings go to www.charlotteobserver.com/entertainment TS IE Paid for by Haywood County Tourism Development Authority 1-800-334-9036 www.VisitNCSmokies.com The 13th Annual Festival 2015 Flowering Baskets Vegetable Plants Herbs Perennials Trees Outdoor Decor Local Artisans Crafters Variety of Foods Local Growers Arts Crafts Music Entertainment Saturday, May 9th 9 a.m. 4 p.m. Historic Frog Level Sponsored by the Historic Frog Level Association Help Support Our Local Economy! Spring Festival No Dogs Allowed 1 8 4 3 9 -0 1 -1 Gatewood from Norfolk bought him, at age 15, at public auction. Gatewood had Fuller trained as a cook, and ap- pears to have apprenticed him to stellar caterer Eliza Seymour Lee, a free black woman (whose great-great- granddaughter attended the 2015 Feast).

There, he learned breadmaking, how to cook meats and create sauces, and showed a gift for butchering game, boning birds and cre- ating sculpt- ed nougat and meringues and fruit depicting, for example, a train crossing the bridge to Charleston, which he made for an 1857 banquet. A surprising number of his bills of fare survives. These tell us, among other things, he liked cooking veal more than his peers, preferred frying or poach- ing fish to broiling it, and used walnut and mush- room routinely. By the 1850s, still en- slaved, he was catering and selling game imported from New York (canvasback ducks, turkeys, grouse), with part of the money go- ing to Gatewood. In 1860, Fuller opened a end eating arranged by Gatewood.

The Retreat reigned as one great restaurant outside a hotel in the says Shields, until death in 1866. absolute lynchpin here is his 150 years, bridged 1865 feast com- bined his unusually complete training, his imagination as a businessman and foodstuffs only someone as well-con- nected as he could have pro- cured at a time when the rest of the city was reduced to daily rice rations. The 2015 version began with a cocktail reception in the Church Street building that once housed The Bach- Retreat, now a gallery. We sipped gin with bitters and brandy smashes of Full- design, and listened as re-enactors of the 54th Mas- sachusetts Regiment, one of the first African-American regiments in the war, sang songs. That regiment then led a procession to where diners sat at two long, ornately appointed tables and worked through course after course: Creamy oyster soup, sharp Bradford water- melon pickles (a heritage melon, only now reappear- ing), tiny shrimp pies con- cealing a bite within their buttery pastry, fried whiting of perfect crunch, aged duck with oranges, venison and lamb and beef on one plate, with individual sauces, poured individually.

Relent- lessly buttery potato puree. Finally, dessert plates arrived, splayed with Charlotte russe, punch cake and more, with ice creams flavored with va- nilla and with pineapple. Shields invited anyone so moved to speak at end, and ferried a micro- phone to each in turn. A poem was read, toasts were offered. A few peo- words touched on a more contemporary pain: Just two weeks earlier, a white North Charleston po- lice officer had shot and killed Walter Scott, a black man stopped for a non- working brake light.

Charleston historian Da- mon Fordham toasted to coming as people nodded and mur- mured softly. was need- ed 150 years ago, and still needed The Feast took place April 19, the day in Balti- more that Freddie Gray died. JONATHAN BONCEK Historian David Shields, left, and chef B.J. Dennis helped re-create the 1865 feast. FULLER from 1C Host, give, learn More on Nat Fuller and his times: ldhi.library.cofc.edu, search Nat Fuller.

Want to hold your own Nat Fuller Feast, or contribute to a Culinary Institute of Charleston scholarship, or a curatorial fellowship at the McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina? Contact chef Kevin Mitchell at kevin.mitchell@tridenttech.edu or Dr. David Shields: 803-576-5980; ONLINE See a video by Marcus Amaker of the Feast at www.charlotteobserver. ject, the biography of blues singer Bessie Smith in premier- ing May 16. The been in the works for 23 years. At first it was intend- ed to be an ambitious stu- dio movie, she says, but it never came to fruition.

Latifah rooted out a script, and collaborated with HBO. At 45, built a head- spinning resume from talk- show host to Academy Award nominee. Her bur- LOS ANGELES Before she became royalty Queen La- tifah was a troubled teen far from the kingdom she dreamed of. At 17 she found herself stranded one night in New York, with no money to get home to New Jersey. hopped the turnstile and went to my cou- house in the she says.

At the time Latifah (whose real name is Dana Owens) was making poor choices, she says. At her insist- ence, they sat down for a talk. was the first adult, adult conversation. It long after that talk that she began to meld her fascination with music and acting into an art form that elevated her to the ranks of hip-hop pioneers and an actress to reckon with. She proves that talent twice over in her latest pro- geoning singing career be- gan in the basement of friends, and by the time she was 20, her status was es- calating.

But two years lat- er tragedy struck when her brother was killed in a mo- torcycle accident. were very close, my older brother, Lance. I was probably on my second al- bum and had some pret- ty good success, but people would walk up to me and say, sorry about your brother, may I have an I felt disillu- sioned. I felt like people really care about me, all they want is an auto- graph. They care that broken right now.

I can barely function, but they want their she says. remember as clear as day, one day I was in one of those moods where I was just SO unhappy. I just heard it was like voice spoke to me as if He was sitting right next to me. He said, throw it all away. go- ing to get through I was drinking a lot.

I was driving myself crazy. I would wake up, go to my house, go to my friends in the neighbor- hood. go to the bas- ketball court. play bas- ketball every day just as hard as I could play, then drink or smoke weed. was numbing myself, but at the same time, I sit still.

I had to be near my mom, make sure she was OK, but I sit That voice resuscitated her. She forced herself to move on. to me is not like one thing happens, and it just stays that she nods. me self-confidence re- quires maintenance. not just confident constant- ly, you have to do things to lift yourself up and build your spirit up and receive positive vibes.

I know anyone constantly confident. Sometimes giv- ing and doing for other peo- ple makes you feel more positive inside, getting out of your own head, and worry- ing about someone May 16 on HBO Star drew on pain of her youth to play blues singer TNS Queen Latifah worked with HBO to resurrect a decades-old script for their film on Bessie Smith. By Luaine Lee Tribune News Service Queen Latifah Realty, will host a show 9 a.m. Sundays on WBT-AM (1110) about homeowner top- ics. Former Channel 9 an- chor Kim Brat- tain, who now runs Kim Brattain Media, was named one of five finalists in the Small video compe- tition, describing what her firm offers, sponsored by the National Association of Wo- men Business Owners.

Kimberly Lawson will leave Creative Loafing this month, two years after she took over as editor. She plans to return to Georgia and be a freelance writer. Photographer Kevin Ridley Joining (Chan- nel 64) morning newscast as anchor in Au- gust is John Paul, from sis- ter Cox sta- tion in Day- ton, Ohio, where he worked for seven years. Before Dayton, he worked at the Cox station in Steubenville, Ohio, with Allison Latos and Natalie Pasquarella of WSOC (Chan- nel 9) and WAXN. Paul, raised in Kalamazoo, graduated from Western Michigan University.

Trent Haston, president of the Roby and Ashley Davis, president of Roby leaves WCNC (Channel 36) after nine years for a job with corporate communications in Mooresville. Former Channel 9 anchor and WBT talk show host Vince Coakley is recovering from a heart attack Wednesday. WBTV (Channel 3) an- chor Jamie Boll will be off the air a few days, healing from a black eye and stitch- es from a collision with a pole during a home im- provement project. Washburn: 704-358-5007; Twitter: Media Movers Ch. 64 anchor arrives from Ohio Paul Brattain Coakley By Mark Washburn.