"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Remake of "Steel Magnolias" starring Queen Latifah, which is set in a beauty shop, much like the movie "Beauty Shop" which is set in a beauty shop and stars Queen Latifah.
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"He's the narrator. I'm guessing the real Che Guevara didn't stand around street corners telling idle walkers-by the story of Eva Peron's ascension." - henrikegerman
Nepotism or not, Condola Rashad is a phenomenal actress.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
I could see Queen Latifah as Truvy, Ouiser or maybe Claree. But as M'Lynn? That's miscast.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
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Sorry-Oscar nod or not, I think Latifah is an awful actress and there's not a maternal thing about her. Was Lynn Whitfleid not available?
I think Latifah's big screen career is drying up anyway. Her latest flicks have all been duds.
I was really hoping for Loretta Divine and Diahann Carroll in this, but oh well.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
Where in the hell is Jennifer Lewis or Loretta Devine?!
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"What's next? Snow Black and the 7 Swaggers? Shasquirta and the Beast? 101 Weavematians?
Willis in Ghettoland?" - Dave19, in reference to the new ANNIE remake.
We can "why wasn't so and so in this" all night long.
Loretta Devine Paula Patton Angela Bassett Chandra Wilson Vanessa Williams Whoopi Goldberg Regina King Taraji P Henson Gabrielle Union
I can go on, but the point is there are a finite amount of roles in this and, no matter what BettyBoy is grousing about, none of them are slouches in the acting department. While I whole-heartedly agree there are were some unusual choices casting-wise, but I don't think any of them are wrongly suited for this. A Lifetime remake of Steel Magnolias.
I love Gabrielle Union, actually I love that whole list. Paula Patton I feel doesn't get enough work, hopefully not being part of the next couple of MI movies it'll get her some more work.
Wasn't Whoopi approached and she turned it down due to The View schedule? I thought I read that some where or something.
I'm sorry to disagree with you Phyll-you know I love you, but IMHO Latifah plays everything, including her Pizza Hut, Cover Girl and Jenny Craig commercials like a lesbian basketball coach. I don't think its possible for her to shrug her shoulders or****her head or squint anymore than she already does. I actually made a drinking game out of it.
I'll probably play it during Steel Magnolias.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
BWW censored my saying c-ck her head. I wrote the word c-ck and it appeared with little stars on it. Hmmmm......
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
I wast trying to figure out what the **** was. Shlt her head makes mo sense so I was confused.
"I think Glee is way too sharp, smart, witty, clever and emotionally confronting for the masses." - Dave19 -
"What's next? Snow Black and the 7 Swaggers? Shasquirta and the Beast? 101 Weavematians?
Willis in Ghettoland?" - Dave19, in reference to the new ANNIE remake.
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Posted: 3/19/12 at 02:46pm