Kim Wayans

The Wayans family must be deeply alarmed: The Baldwins have surged back to claim the title of the most unavoidable family name in showbiz, with that icky Spears clan from Louisiana right behind 'em. But the Wayanses have a new hope and, no, it's not the director's cut DVD of "White Chicks": Kim Wayans (sister of Damon, Keenen, Shawn and Marlon) is getting attention for "A Handsome Woman Retreats," her one-woman play about a disaffected soul talked into attending a 10-day meditation program.

The Wayans family must be deeply alarmed: The Baldwins have surged back to claim the title of the most unavoidable family name in showbiz, with that icky Spears clan from Louisiana right behind 'em. But the Wayanses have a new hope and, no, it's not the director's cut DVD of "White Chicks": Kim Wayans (sister of Damon, Keenen, Shawn and Marlon) is getting attention for "A Handsome Woman Retreats," her one-woman play about a disaffected soul talked into attending a 10-day meditation program.

Kim Wayans and Tommy Davidson are sitting at a table in Edna's, a popular soul food restaurant on Chicago's West Side. Folks are strolling in and out, showing them much love. Wayans and Davidson are eating it up. They pose for pictures. They sign autographs. They mingle with the 100 or so people who have joined them for breakfast on this rainy Chicago morning as part of a radio promotion for the new movie "Juwanna Mann," which opened Friday.

Kim Wayans and Tommy Davidson are sitting at a table in Edna's, a popular soul food restaurant on Chicago's West Side. Folks are strolling in and out, showing them much love. Wayans and Davidson are eating it up. They pose for pictures. They sign autographs. They mingle with the 100 or so people who have joined them for breakfast on this rainy Chicago morning as part of a radio promotion for the new movie "Juwanna Mann," which opened Friday.

It's the season of giving and "Lou Rawls Parade of Stars" arrives asking for donations for the United Negro College Fund. The six-hour telethon begins today at 6 p.m. on Channels 13 and 10, 5 p.m. on WGN. Bill Cosby, Chaka Khan and James Ingram are among those performing. Stand-up comedian Sinbad leads another parade of African-American entertainers tonight at 8 (7)(3)(42) in "Sinbad & Friends All the Way Live . . . Almost."

Today Matt Bomer; Paula Deen; Tabatha Coffey; Anthony Mackie; James Morrison. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America Liam Neeson; Louis Van Amstel; "Celebrity Wife Swap. " 7 a.m. KABC Rachael Ray Elisabeth Hasselbeck. (N) 8 a.m. KCAL Live With Kelly Jessica Alba; Matt Bomer; co-host Seth Meyers. (N) 9 a.m. KABC The View Liam Neeson; doctors answer viewer questions. (N) 10 a.m. KABC The Talk Regina King; author Suzanne Somers. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS The Doctors Getting a healthier bathroom; potty training a toddler; "green" cleaning recipes.

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 7 - Oct. 13 in PDF format This week's TV Movies       SERIES Arrow: This new action drama, adapted from a DC Comics character, stars Stephen Amell as a billionaire playboy who returns home after five years as a shipwrecked castaway determined to right the wrongs of society in general and his past in particular. Paul Blackthorne, Katie Cassidy and David Ramsey also star (8 p.m. KTLA). Nature: Conservation ecologist Chris Morgan searches for the Siberian tiger in the season premiere (8 p.m. KOCE)

At its soulful heart, "Pariah" is a stinging street-smart story of an African American teen's struggle to come of age and come out — to the father who still calls her "daddy's little girl" and the mother who quotes the Bible and buys her pink frills. This emotionally ragged, slightly rough-around-the-edges indie starts in a packed lesbian dance club. Alike (Adepero Oduye), barely looking 17, cornrows tucked under a baseball cap, has bashful eyes, downcast as she takes in the scene.

WHEN it comes to the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival, it doesn't matter who you are; they've got you covered. There's Nafeesa Monroe's exploration of her multiracial identity in "Journey to Becoming a Super Woman," and Shyamala Moorty's complex and politically themed dance numbers such as "Balance," in which she marries Eastern and Western movements on alternate sides of her body.

In Keenen Ivory Wayans' "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" (citywide), there's sometimes a light line between sendup and near-celebration. The movie is a satire of the early '70s blaxploitation action movies: all the "Shafts," "Black Caesars" and "Superflys" with their natty, super-masculine heroes, flamboyant pimps and murderous drug czars. Its most obvious model is 1980's "Airplane!" But, where the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker "Airplane!"

Jobs ARE scarce. Water is even scarcer. Pollution, racial tensions and general poverty have transformed Los Angeles into a dystopian wasteland dotted by pockets of privilege. Sounds like a page right out of 2008, except for the fact that it was written back in 1993, as the setup for Octavia E. Butler's science fiction novel "Parable of the Sower," set in 2025. Writing at a time when there were few women writers and even fewer African American women in the sci-fi genre, the pathologically shy Butler produced a dozen novels and a handful of eerily prescient short stories before she died in 2006 at age 58. On Saturday, the second annual Leimert Park Book Fair will honor Butler, a Pasadena native, with a posthumous tribute.