By Eartha Watts-Hicks
When I first saw Steel Magnolias, it was 1989. I was a teenager, my mother’s daughter. I remember thinking the original was a good movie. Continue reading
By Eartha Watts-Hicks
When I first saw Steel Magnolias, it was 1989. I was a teenager, my mother’s daughter. I remember thinking the original was a good movie. Continue reading
Posted in Film, Harlem film, Harlem World Magazine, Video
Tagged Adepero Oduye, Alfre Woodard, Condola Rashad, Hollywood, hustlers, Jill Scott, Lifetime, maids, Phylicia Rashad, pimps, Queen Latifah, Slaves, Steel Magnolias, Terms of Endearment, whores
A Nina Simone biopic has been in the works for years now, with Cynthia Mort set to direct from her own script since 2005, and singer Mary J. Blige once attached for the lead role that has now apparently gone to Zoe Saldana… Continue reading
Posted in Harlem movie, HArlem music, movie, Music
Tagged Adepero Oduye, Angela Bassett, Anika Noni Rose, Betty Shabazz, Clifton Henderson, Curtis Institute of Music, Cynthia Mort, Eunice Kathleen Waymon, Eunice Waymon, Get By, Harlemite Anika Noni Rose, High Priestess of Soul, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Lauryn Hill, Lisa Celeste Stroud, Lorraine Hansberry, Mary J. Blige, Miriam Makeba, Music, Nina, Nina Simone film, NinaSimone, North Carolina, Shadow and Act, Stokely Carmichael, Talib Kweli's, The Allen School for Girls, The Brave One, The High Priestess of Soul, The Hollywood Reporter, Viola Davis
Last week, on a biting Wednesday night, I sat in a plush, comfy seat at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center and saw a masterpiece called Pariah. Continue reading