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Showing posts with label D-Entertainment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label D-Entertainment. Show all posts
Do you know that our people slept laying spoon fashion in
the filthy hatches of slave ships
in their own and in each other’s excrement and in their
urine
and menstrual flow so that you could live
200 years later?
Do you know that?
Do you know that our people stood on auction blocks
So that you could live?
When is the last time someone told you how important you
are?
Maya Angelou to Tupac
Shakur on the set of Poetic Justice. She repeated this story to Dave Chappelle
during the taping of the show Iconoclasts on the Sundance Channel, where she and he sat and talked.
This is a young African brother who is now living in America (name Mabasa) and aspiring to shoot a feature film. Check out his blog for more details: Tryone and Randy
In 2010 the Movie Stranded in the Motor City Directed by Dwayne Barnes was screened here in Los Angeles. You might remember me posting it about it and the interview I did with him. (If not you can click on the link above.) Now you can watch the full length movie online at the link below.
I had the shear pleasure of being invited to Kina's one woman show this evening. I've known Kina for awhile so this was a no brainer for me that I must be at this show. I was excited to attend. So excited that I thought the show was a day earlier than it actually was. No I didn't go to the theater Saturday. Thank goodness! It is almost midnight and I had to get this out while the feeling was still simmering inside me.
You may remember Kina from the group Brownstone and her solo career.
She was on hiatus for awhile and this was a performance that myself and her friends have been waiting for!
It was a one woman show where she dramatically, comedically and stoically detailed her life's journey thus far. Yes she sang during the show too. Of course she would, she's a singer. Not only is she a singer she is a performer. To top it off her characterizations of herself as a child opened your eyes to the beautiful little girl from Detroit. Add Actress to the slashes behind her name!!
Her timing in telling her story was on point! If anyone sat in that audience and didn't feel every single word and note that was melodically released from her lips, then there was something the hell wrong with them. The only way that would have been humanly possible is if, you've never known elation, sadness, confusion, success or empathy.
Have you ever been to a performance and once it was over you felt like … I gotta do something with my life! Well that was what I experienced tonight.
Thank you for letting me be apart of the audience Kina!!! I'm looking forward to supporting you in all that you do and waiting anxiously to see what you have in store for the WORLD next!
I hope it will hold up well against the original. From the looks of the woman playing Sista. I don't know if she can hold a candle to Lonnette McKee. Yes I'm a little partial…I love Lonnette!!!!
If you haven't read the book The Help, you should. It's funny, sad and distrubing. I read the book about 1 1/2 years ago and now as I'm sure you know its a movie. Just saw it today. I really enjoyed it. There were a lot of scenes left out of the book. However, if they had been left in the movie I think it would have been a looooooooooooong movie.
I must say that Wendy Williams is really doing it up! I loved the interview she did with Aretha. It was real unlike most interviewers who have this attitude that they are better than the person they're interviewing and have more insight into the world than the person their talking to. As if anyone has any real insight to the world at all. You just gotta live it the best way you know how.
Anyway, Kudos to Wendy Williams on a great interview!
I am old enough to remember when people referred to each other as colored. It's funny how it didn't mean very much back then and Black people weren't offended by it. I also, remember when being called colored was not a good thing, and Negro was the thing to be called. Then came Afro-American, Black and African-American. Our name changes signified change in our psyche.
No matter what we've been called we've suffered. Men and Women.
I saw the movie For Colored Girls today. If you've never read the book of poetry you should so that you hear it in your own voice and let it give you a vision of what the women in the poetry are feeling. When the book For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf was 1st published it was a voice for women who were in plain sight abused. I think if not for this voice Black women might see themselves differently than they do today. At least in their minds, if not in reality. In the past performances of this work the women do not interact. Personally I thought it was good to have them be connected in similar vein as the movie Crash.
Some reviewers will have you to believe that the story is dated and that some of the directorial choices are trite. See for yourselves and don't let others who have no reference whatsoever of some Black women's past that still exists but now covertly with subtle nuances that manage to hide the voices of Black women dealing with pain once again.
One might say that the poem and the movie paint a picture of Black men that we'd like to keep hidden not unlike our dirty laundry when company comes to visit. However, the images may offend and seem dramatic but in my opinion resonate a sickness that exists even today.
The performances in the movie were stellar. See for yourself before following a reviewer with probably no point of reference or color.
I attended Diva's Simply Singing again this year. For the life of me I don't know why this show is not on television. Then again maybe I do...that doesn't make it right though. View the youtube video below of little Harmony interviewing some of the Divas prior to the event. You'll also have the opportunity to listen to snippets of their performances. Some of my favorite Divas performed this year...Ledisi, Kelly Price, Chaka Khan, Shanice & her mother, Jodi Watley, Teena Marie & her daughter who performed (yes she can sang!), Debra Cox and more.
Anyone that visits my blog knows that normally my post are related to Black Men. Sometimes a Black woman who can sing. Like Ledisi...I love you Ledisi..lol
Anyway I'm breaking that pattern for this. If you love music like I do I think you'll get goosebumps too.
On a social note why are we accepting the mediocre talent that the music industry puts out there with a hot beat to make a song hot but the singers really can't sing? I guess I know the answer...get a one hit wonder don't pay them much and get another one right after that. Real singers they'd have to pay for a long time and the expense would increase with their popularity. sigh what a world what a world...Wicked Witch of the East.
After Thought: I just found out the Jessica Cornish does have a record deal now with a U.S. Company. She's from the U.K. I'll be looking for her cd like crazy!
One of my all time favorite movies has always been the Bad Seed. The Bad Seed was made in 1956. (before I was born!!!) This movie is so good even today. You should check out this little girl in action if you haven't already.
There have been other movies that have copied off of the concept of this movie like The Good Son. However, they have not come close until now. Orphan is excellent, if you like this genre of movies. I do!
Orphan even has a little extra than the original Bad Seed. Go see this movie. I recommend you see the Bad Seed 1st though so you can get an idea of the type of movie that Orphan is. Ooooooh it was good! I'm buying this movie when it comes on DVD.
I don't usually do movie reviews. However, I went to see American Violet tonight and it is an excellent movie. Correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't seen a movie like this in years and I think it is well overdue. Unfortunately, many will probably not get to see it until it is cranked out on to DVD and by that time may have forgotten about it.
The movie addresses the injustice that occurs in our legal system. The story is based on a true story about Dee Roberts in the year 2000. Of course I don't know what city all those that read my blog reside, so you may have a difficult time finding a theater that this movie is playing in. I'm in Los Angeles and it's only playing in a very few theaters. So I know in some cities you probably won't even have it playing at all. I checked in South Carolina and it's not there at all. Maybe they thought it might cause a civil unrest as I'm sure that subject addressed in this movie are probably still happening.
At any rate if it is not playing in your city and you can't go see it right now. Wait for it to come on DVD and do yourself a favor and see it. If nothing else you'll learn that things from the civil rights movement have changed things but that just caused racists to use different tactics to abuse Black people.
You can see the trailer by clicking on the link for American Violet.
Well Beyonce has another movie scheduled to come out on April 24th called Obsessed. It actually looks like it might be a decent movie. It stars she, Idris Elba and Ali Larter. Although some times movies look good in the trailer but could be a hot mess. Click on the word Obsessed to check out the trailer.
I just realized that Deonte'K posted on this movie too in January. Well I really have nothing else to say about it...don't want to make him mad...he thinks Beyonce is his 2nd wife..hee hee.
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