But I was admittedly taken in by the hype. WAS: Usually, the praise heaped on dubious films by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association - that gaggle of wall-eyed European glad hander - is reason enough to stay home and watch a basketball game. Now this is based on a stage musical inspired by Detroit's hit factory, Motown Records.ĭAVID WAS: As a Detroit native who grew up in the halcyon years of Motown Records, it was with an abiding skepticism that I went to see "Dreamgirls." Our resident musician David Was offers his personal assessment of the movie. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Ciera Crawford adapted it for the web.The big winner at last night's Golden Globe Awards, the musical "Dreamgirls." Three categories it won, including Best Comedy or Musical. Heidi Saman and Thea Chaloner produced and edited this interview for broadcast. And by the grace of God, that bullet, he carries a scar on his forehead, but he still has his leg and he's alive. But I look at my son every day and I know what a miracle is because my son's alive. And she looked at me and she said, "I wish my son was still alive." And I was just so sad at that moment because you can't help but be scarred by these things. And one day I was talking with Trayvon Martin's mom and we were talking about gun violence. And somebody used him for target practice. My son graduated from Drexel and one of those parties before graduation, too much drinking, ended up in the wrong neighborhood. On her son surviving being shot in Philadelphia And I was shocked that I was literally being challenged about caring for other human beings. And that's why I got involved in simply daring to care. And to me, it was an assault to my humanity.
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Great evangelists and Christians were OK with getting on TV and saying the most awful things about human beings ever just because. You'd have families just dump their dying children off on church stair steps like they were bags of used clothing for a rummage sale - and it was OK. It was a shock to the little church girl in me that people could be suffering, people could be dying, and human beings found it easy to not care, not love. On the impact of losing so many friends in the theater community to AIDS And what I could control was my body and what I ate - and so I didn't eat. You feel you cannot control it and what's going on around you, but you can control yourself. And I think what happens when you develop things like anorexia, which we did not know anything about at that time, it's because you feel out of control.
It's for us to just be fabulous and beautiful," which in some ways is Sheryl, too.
None of our pain needs to be shared with our audience. Let's go out there and entertain the people. I'm more the cheerleader with the velvet hammer: "Let's look beautiful. And then there are people who want to say, "Well, you can't sing." And it's like, it's not that I can't sing, it's that my character is not supposed to sing with the same sort of pain and feeling and power of Effie!.
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As an actor, you create a full character. I started to feel like I was not really seen. I think it was the fact that I started to feel like I was invisible. Jennifer Holliday, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Loretta Devine appeared in the Broadway production Dreamgirls, which debuted in 1981. On developing anorexia during the Dreamgirls Broadway run Just singing and a voice that I could represent and acknowledge - and I loved it. Oh, my God! All different shades and beauties of Black women. How could I not love a good girl group? And they just kept coming at me. So you're going to have to be ready yourself." Hence me always saying "I stay ready" – because he really, really taught me that I had to stay ready because they weren't going to do the job for me. Because he said, "They're not prepared for you.
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But as I left that set, he gave me this little makeup box that had everything in it for me to be able to continue to learn how to do my makeup and all the things that we might need as young actors of color. On what she learned on the set of Sidney Poitier's 1977 film, A Piece of the Action, her first big break
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