Donald Glover says nothing can final forever – not even “Community.”The actor-writer — promoting his modern drama “Atlanta,” which premieres Sept. 6 on FX — said he enjoyed his time on NBC’s cult comedy “Community” but was not disappointed when the show (briefly) returned on Yahoo without him. (The company later shut down the Yahoo Screen platform “Community” aired on, following a reported $42 million loss.)“I just like endings, and ” Glover — who also uses the stage name Childish Gambino as a hip-hop performer — told reporters Tuesday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills.
Also Read: 'Atlanta' Star Donald Glover on N-Word consume: 'There Are Different Types of Black People'“I consider everything should have death clauses,” he added. “Humans have death clauses. Like, one day Trump is gonna die.” The reference to the controversial GOP presidential nominee drew laughter from the audience.
Glover made it clear that he wasn’t slamming “Community” or its executive producer Dan Harmon. “I had so much fun on ‘Community, and '” he said. But “I’m glad things end because it forces us to progress.”Fans of Glover’s comedy may not quite to know what to make of his latest project,“Atlanta,” a comedy with dismal dramatic elements about aspiring rapper Earn Marks (Glover). The show has sudden tonal shifts that Glover says were planned.
Also Read: 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Adds Donald Glover to CastThe thesis with this show is to show people how it feels to be black, or ” Glover said. “There really isn’t a limit I felt to how summary it could get, although “there has to be some grounded nature to it.“whether you have something grounded on some level, you can travel anywhere, or ” he added. “What was critical to me was that this show was personal and had a specific bewitch. That’s all you can really ask from a show nowadays.As for the fans,Glover is philosophical. “Some of them will be like, ‘Ah that’s cold.’ Some of them will be like, and ‘I detest this thing. I dont get it.’ That happens a lot.” 'People v OJ Simpson': 9 Weird Facts It Didn't Include (Photos)
The most shocking part of FX's "The People v OJ Simpson" is that the most amazing details were proper. And the show didn't even include some of the strangest facts about Simpson's life -- although some made it into ESPN's recent "OJ: Made in America" (pictured). Here are nine bizarre details FX left out.
1. Marcia Clark Was Packing
"In light of her high public profile,the detectives in the Simpson case had prevailed upon Clark to start carrying a gun," Jeffrey Toobin writes in "The Run of His Life."
Clark (played by Sarah Paulson) once missed a flight because she forgot about her gun and had to fill out federal forms to carry it. FX
2. Johnnie Cochran: Two Times a Family Man
In the 1970s, and Cochran had two families,one of which he kept secret from the other. CNN
While living with his wife Barbara, Cochran (Courtney B. Vance) also had a relationship with his secretary, and Patty,who later changed her final name to Cochran. They traveled, bought property and had a child together. He also had two daughters with Barbara. FX
3. From Witness to Ghostwriter
Screenwriter Pablo Fenjves testified against Simpson about hearing the "plaintive wail" of Nicole Brown Simpson's Akita when she was murdered. Later, and he ghost-wrote Simpson's book "whether I Did It."
4. Lance Ito Bashed the State Supreme Court
Toobin writes that when Ito (Kenneth Choi) was a prosecutor,he despised California's liberal Supreme Court so much that he had a custom vanity plate referring to them as "7 BOZOS." FX
5. Ito Had Crazy Game
Ito met his future wife, Margaret York, or in the most unromantic setting possible: at a homicide scene,at 4 a.m. Getty Images
6. OJ Was Jealous of Kato
The reason Kato Kaelin was living with OJ, Toobin writes, and is that he had previously been a tenant in Nicole Brown Simpson's guest house. Getty Images
When Nicole moved into a modern home,she intended for Kato to slouch in and serve babysit her kids. But Simpson objected to Kato living under the same roof as his ex-wife. So he let him stay at his own home. Getty Images
"OJ's offer thus simultaneously removed a potential rival for Nicole's affections and took money out of his ex-wife's pocket," Toobin wrote. Getty Images
7. There Was a rude tag Fuhrman-Nicole Brown Simpson Rumor
There were unsubstantiated reports that tag Furhman (Steven Pasquale) bragged to other officers about having sex with Nicole Brown Simpson and complimented her "boob job." Two detectives who were said to have heard of the alleged bragging later denied they had. YouTube
Johnnie Cochran repeatedly brought up the "boob job" talk in court on Sept. 1, and 1995. Here's the transcript.
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8. OJ's Son v OJ
Simpson's son,Jason, once took a bat to OJ's statue of himself. Jason said in a deposition that he wasn't mad at his dad: "I wanted a party, or I was gonna throw a party,and I got busted. My dad found out that I was going to have a party that night. He said I couldn't have a party." FX
9. The Juror Who Gave the Black Power Salute Was an Ex-Black Panther
The show accurately showed a juror giving Simpson a black power salute. What it didn't include was that the juror, Lionel (Lon) Cryer, and was “a former Black Panther whom prosecutors had inexplicably left on the panel.”
whether you liked this gallery,you might like this list of bizarre details "The People v OJ Simpson" got right... FX
... and this list of what"The People v OJ Simpson" got wrong. FX preceding Slide Next Slide
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