Debbie Allen’s all-black, Broadway production of the Tennessee Williams play (turned classic Paul Newman/Elizabeth Taylor movie), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, finally has a cast. LL Cool J was mentioned months ago as a contender for the role of Brick, an injured ex-football player who won’t have sex with his wife, but, thankfully, that’s not happening.
Terrence “T.P.” Howard has been given the roll (ha! get it?). Although I’m not his biggest fan, at least he has Broadway-caliber acting chops. Other confirmed cast members are Phylicia Rashad, Giancarlo Esposito and James Earl Jones. The lead female role will either go to Anika Noni Rose or Kerry Washington. I’m sure you know who I’m rooting for. []
Here’s something you may not know about me: I love a dance reality show. I was one of five people who watched Debbie Allen’s Fame competition show a few years back and probably the only one out of that group who mourned when it was canceled. So You
Think You Can Dance? I’m all about it. That said, news of Randy Jackson’s new hip hop dance competition show, World Moves on NBC, barely thrilled me at all. Is it because it’s Randy Jackson we’re talking here? Because after a season of American Idol, I can’t fathom voluntarily tuning into another show where I have to look at his foundation-slathered face and hear a series of “yo, dawgs” every time he speaks? Maybe I’m being a little hard on Randy, and also lying, because I know I’ll watch it. Still, I’m not sure how he’ll be able to weave the word “pitchy” into his dance critiques.
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How the mighty have fallen. Alright, Maia Campbell was never mighty, but her mother, novelist BeBe Moore Campbell was. Mighty and dignified. And sane. Two other things her daughter is not. Grand Theft Auto (of a 1998 Jeep Cherokee, no less) is the latest in a long string of embarrassing and unexplainable transgressions the missing-in-action In The House star has made recently. This should prompt someone close to her to get her some help, but with her mother gone there may not be anyone left. I know! Her old co-stars LL Cool J and Debbie Allen should cast her in their all-black production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
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