Jeremy Helligar

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Laurence Fishburne in 1979's 'Apocalypse Now' (left) and in March 2025. Photo: United Artists; Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Laurence Fishburne is sharing memories of a career that began when he was a child actor in the 1970s. In the new two-episode Apple TV+ documentary Number One on the Call Sheet, Fishburne, 63, who launched his professional acting career at the tender age of 10, recalls a particularly intense experience he had while filming his third big-screen movie.

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Gabrielle Union at the Vanity Fair Oscar party on March 2, 2025. Photo: Cindy Ord/VF25/Getty Gabrielle Union isn't someone to shy away from uncomfortable topics, and here's one that's on her radar: the impossible — and unfair — beauty standards Black actresses are held to in Hollywood.

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Eddie Murphy in 2023. Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Among his generation of stars, Eddie Murphy had an especially atypical Hollywood trajectory. At 19, he became only the second Black not-ready-for-prime-time player on Saturday Night Live (after original cast member Garrett Morris), and two years later, in 1982, he launched one of the most successful big-screen runs in Hollywood history.

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Gabourey Sidibe. Photo: Maarten de Boer/ABC via Getty Gabourey Sidibe didn't win best actress when she was nominated for the 2008 film Precious, but if Academy Awards were handed out for most on-point performance in a documentary, it would be hers to lose next year. In the new two-episode Apple TV+ documentary Number One on the Call Sheet, Sidibe gives a vocal impersonation of a phone-sex operator named Melody that is both hilarious and heartbreaking.

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From left: Whoopi Goldberg, Bruce Willis and Cher in the '80s. Photo: Nancy R. Schiff/Getty; ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty; Micheline PELLETIER/Gamma-Rapho via Getty  Whoopi Goldberg enjoyed massive critical acclaim and scored an Oscar nomination for best actress for her first major film role, in 1985's The Color Purple, directed by Steven Spielberg.