Information: - Beauty Shop is a 2005 American comedy film directed by Bille Woodruff. The film serves as a spin-off of the "Barbershop" film franchise, and stars Queen Latifah as Gina, a character first introduced in the 2004 film "". This film also stars Alicia Silverstone, Andie MacDowell, Mena Suvari, Kevin Bacon and Djimon Hounsou. - Television or TV is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black-and-white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. It can refer to a television set, a television program ("TV show"), or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium, for entertainment, education, news, and advertising. - Mekhi Phifer (born December 29, 1974) is an American actor. He portrayed Dr. Greg Pratt on NBC's long-running medical drama "ER" and had a co-starring role opposite Eminem in the feature film "8 Mile". He was a regular on the Fox crime show "Lie to Me" in the role of Ben Reynolds, before season three, and also starred as CIA agent Rex Matheson in "". - Irma Pamela Hall (born June 3, 1935) is an American actress who has appeared in numerous films and television shows since the 1970s. She is best known for playing matriarchal figures in the films "A Family Thing", "Soul Food", and "The Ladykillers". - A Family Thing is a 1996 film starring Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones and Irma P. Hall. It was written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson and directed by Richard Pearce. - An ensemble cast or main cast is made up of cast members in which the principal actors and performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and screen time in a dramatic production. - Third Watch is an American crime drama series which first aired on NBC from 1999 to 2005, for a total of 132 episodes, broadcast in six seasons of 22 episodes each. - Men of Honor (released in the UK and Ireland as Men of Honour) is a 2000 drama film, starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding, Jr. The film was directed by George Tillman, Jr. It is inspired by the true story of Master Chief Petty Officer Carl Brashear, the first African American master diver in the United States Navy. - Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (often stylized as EMINM), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Eminem is the best-selling artist of the 2000s in the United States. Throughout his career, he has had 10 number-one albums on the "Billboard" 200 and five number-one singles on the "Billboard" Hot 100. With US sales of 45.1 million albums and 42 million tracks as of June 2014, Eminem is the second best-selling male artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era, the sixth best-selling artist in the United States and the best-selling hip-hop artist. Globally, he has sold more than 172million albums, thus being one of the world's best-selling artists. "Rolling Stone" ranked him 83rd on its list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, calling him the King of Hip Hop. - Nitara Carlynn "Nia" Long (born October 30, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the television series "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and "Third Watch", and the films "In Too Deep", "Boyz n the Hood", "Friday", "Boiler Room", "Soul Food", "Love Jones", "The Best Man", "Big Momma's House", "Are We There Yet?" and the sequels to the latter three films. - Tracey Elaine Edmonds (nee McQuarn; February 18, 1967) is an American businesswoman, media mogul and television personality. She is the CEO of Edmonds Entertainment Group Inc and COO of Our Stories Films and is a host on the television show "Extra". She currently sits on the National board of directors for the Producers Guild of America. - Producers Guild of America (PGA) is a trade organization representing television producers, film producers and New Media producers in the United States. The PGA's membership includes over 7,000 members of the producing establishment worldwide. Its co-presidents are Gary Lucchesi and Lori McCreary. The PGA is overseen by a National Board of Directors. Vance Van Petten has served as the organization's National Executive Director since 2000. - The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage or in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a "former child actor". Closely associated is teenage actor or teen actor, an actor who reached popularity as a teenager. - Michael Anthony Beach (born October 30, 1963) is an American actor. He has appeared in films "Lean on Me" (1989), "One False Move" (1992), "Short Cuts" (1993), "Waiting to Exhale" (1995), "A Family Thing" (1996), and "Soul Food" (1997). On television, he starred as Monte Parker in the NBC drama series "Third Watch" from 1999 to 2005. - Gina Ravera (born May 20, 1966) is an American actress. She has appeared in films "Showgirls" (1995), "Soul Food" (1997), "Kiss the Girls" (1997), and "The Great Debaters" (2007), and well as co-starred as detective Irene Daniels in the TNT crime drama series, "The Closer" (2005-2009). - Lie to Me (stylized as Lie to me*) is an American crime drama television series. It originally ran on the Fox network from January 21, 2009 to January 31, 2011. In the show, Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) and his colleagues in The Lightman Group accept assignments from third parties (commonly local and federal law enforcement), and assist in investigations, reaching the truth through applied psychology: interpreting microexpressions, through the Facial Action Coding System, and body language. - Vivica Anjanetta Fox (born July 30, 1964) is an American actress, producer and television host. She began her career with roles on the daytime television soap operas "Days of Our Lives" (1988) and "Generations" (198991), and later moved to prime time, with starring role opposite Patti LaBelle in the NBC sitcom, "Out All Night" (199293). - Robert Teitel is an American film producer. Teitel produced the films "Soul Food" (1997), "Men of Honor" (2000), and the three films in the "Barbershop" series: "Barbersop", "", and "Beauty Shop". He also co-produced of the television series "". - The Closer is an American television police procedural, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, and CIA-trained, Brenda has a reputation as a closeran interrogator who not only solves a case, but obtains confessions that lead to convictions and so "closing" the case. Deputy Chief Johnson sometimes uses deceit and intimidation to persuade a suspect to confess. The series ran on TNT from June 13, 2005, to August 13, 2012. - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996. The show stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent to move in with his wealthy aunt and uncle in their Bel Air mansion after getting into a fight on a local basketball court. In the series, his lifestyle often clashes with the lifestyle of his relatives in Bel Air. The series ran for six seasons and aired 148 episodes. - Waiting to Exhale is a 1995 American romance film directed by Forest Whitaker (in his feature film directorial debut) and starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett. The film was adapted from the 1992 novel of the same name by Terry McMillan. Lela Rochon, Loretta Devine, Dennis Haysbert, Michael Beach, Gregory Hines, Donald Faison, and Mykelti Williamson rounded out the rest of the cast. The original music score was composed by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. The story centers on four female friends living in the Phoenix, Arizona area and their relationships with men and one another. All of them are "holding their breath" until the day they can feel comfortable in a committed relationship with a man. - A cast member is: Etymology. The word cast comes from the Old English word ' "casten" ' or ' "kasta" '(c.1230), to throw in, to consider, plot, imagine, and design. This ultimately led to its meaning when referring to a "group of actors in a play" (c.1631). - Brandon Hammond (born February 6, 1984) is an American former child actor who appeared in a string of high-profile projects in the 1990s. - Detective Irene Daniels is a fictional character featured in TNT's "The Closer", portrayed by Gina Ravera. Daniels is a Detective on the Los Angeles Police Department's (LAPD) Priority Homicide Department in seasons 1 through 4. - The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is headquartered in the Comcast Building (formerly known as the GE Building) at Rockefeller Center in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at Universal City Plaza), Chicago (at the NBC Tower) and soon in Philadelphia at Comcast Innovation and Technology Center. The network is part of the Big Three television networks. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, which was originally created in 1956 for its then-new color broadcasts and became the network's official emblem in 1979. - One False Move is a 1992 American thriller film co-written by Billy Bob Thornton. The film stars Thornton alongside Bill Paxton and Cynda Williams and was directed by Carl Franklin. The low-budget production was about to be released straight to home video when it was finished, but became popular through word of mouth, convincing the distributor to give the film a theatrical release. Film critic Gene Siskel voted this film as his favorite of 1992. - Dr. Gregory "Greg" Pratt is a fictional character on the United States television show "ER", portrayed by Mekhi Phifer from April 4, 2002 to September 25, 2008. Mekhi Phifer was removed from the main cast opening credits in the 2nd episode of season 15. - Patricia Louise Holt-Edwards (born May 24, 1944) better known under the stage name Patti LaBelle, is an American singer, author, actress, and entrepreneur. LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s as lead singer and front woman of the vocal group, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. Following the group's name change to Labelle in the early 1970s, she released the iconic disco song "Lady Marmalade" and the group later became the first African-American vocal group to land the cover of "Rolling Stone" magazine. After the group split in 1976, LaBelle began a successful solo career, starting with her critically acclaimed debut album, which included the career-defining song, "You Are My Friend". LaBelle became a mainstream solo star in 1984 following the success of the singles, "If Only You Knew", "New Attitude" and "Stir It Up", with the latter two crossing over to pop audiences becoming radio staples. - Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American teen hood drama film written and directed by John Singleton in his directorial debut, and starring Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne, Nia Long and Angela Bassett. This was the film debut for both Ice Cube and Morris Chestnut. - The Great Debaters is a 2007 American biographical drama film directed by and starring Denzel Washington. It is based on an article written about the Wiley College debate team by Tony Scherman for the spring 1997 issue of "American Legacy". - Jeffrey D. Sams (born September 1, 1966 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American actor known primarily for his television work. - An actor (or actress for females; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is, literally "one who answers". The actor's interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly; to act, is to create, a character in performance. - Showgirls is a 1995 French-American erotic drama film written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Paul Verhoeven. It stars former teen actress Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, and Gina Gershon. The film centers on a "street-smart" drifter who ventures to Las Vegas and climbs the seedy hierarchy from stripper to showgirl. - For the television series based upon this film , see Soul Food ( TV series ) . Soul Food is a 1997 American comedy - drama film , produced by Kenneth '' Babyface '' Edmonds , Tracey Edmonds , and Robert Teitel , and released by Fox 2000 Pictures . Featuring an ensemble cast , the film stars Vanessa Williams , Vivica A. Fox , Nia Long , Michael Beach , Mekhi Phifer , Jeffrey D. Sams , Irma P. Hall , Gina Ravera , and Brandon Hammond . Written and directed by George Tillman , Jr. ( in his major studio debut ) , the film centers on the trials of an extended African - American family , held together by longstanding family traditions which begin to fade as serious problems take center stage . Tillman based the family in the film on his own , and Soul Food was widely acclaimed for presenting a more positive image of African - Americans than is typically seen in Hollywood films . In 2000 , Showtime premiered a one - hour television series based upon the film . In 2015 , it was announced that 20th Century Fox is planning a sequel for film called More Soul Food writen by George Tillman Jr. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'soul food ' exhibits the relationship of 'genre'. Find the answer from the choices below. 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