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[quote]It is a scathing satire on the publishing industry and its treatment of serious works by Black writers, one whose name is Thelonious “Monk” Ellison who with the made-up name Sinatra Golden decides to give them a stereotyped book “We’s Lives In Da Ghetto” as a protest but is horrified when it becomes a best seller.
This sounds like a plot the DL would have made up!
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 28, 2023 1:38 PM |
Is that Maxine Shaw, attorney at law? 😃
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 17, 2023 6:17 PM |
It's called "Home Cookin'" and it's gonna be about MOMMA!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 17, 2023 6:52 PM |
Saw this tonight at a Regal $5 mystery movie and it was terrific. Smart and funny and Jeffrey Wright was excellent.
My second favorite movie this year after Oppenheimer.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 28, 2023 5:31 AM |
Five bucks for a movie ticket seems like such a steal, I wish I had something like that where I live.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 28, 2023 5:41 AM |
The description in the OP is inaccurate -- the gist is correct but the specifics are way off.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 28, 2023 5:42 AM |
From the trailer, it doesn't seem like he does it out of protest, but because his publisher pressures him into doing so and then he just sort of goes along with it.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 28, 2023 5:47 AM |
Well, that's the wrong impression.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 28, 2023 5:57 AM |
Well, which specifics did OP's description get wrong, then? Can't be that many, we only have one sentence to work with here.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 28, 2023 6:04 AM |
Original title was, "I Wish I Was White".
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | November 28, 2023 6:10 AM |
>>Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, who with the made-up name Stagg R. Leigh, decides to give his publisher a stereotyped book "My Pafology" as a protest but is horrified when it becomes a celebrated best seller.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 28, 2023 6:15 AM |
No spoilers, but that's just part of the multilayered plot, which also includes the writer's mother (Leslie Uggams) and his brother and sister.
There's also a (surprise) gay character that figures into the story.
Really, so very well done, I expect it to be a big contender this awards season.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 28, 2023 6:19 AM |
This looks great! It's an adaptation of the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett. (I haven't read it but intend to now.)
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 28, 2023 6:36 AM |
Kinda impressed that sort of thing came out in 2001 already (a month before 9/11!), seems like something that would have been cooked up in the current atmosphere. Guess it's been a problem for much longer than I thought.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 28, 2023 9:33 AM |
[quote] "Jeffrey Wright was excellent."
I've really liked him since "Angels In America", R3. Though I'm sure I saw him before that.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 28, 2023 10:35 AM |
Is that Lupita?
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 28, 2023 11:18 AM |
Erika Alexander. Similar facial structure.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 28, 2023 11:21 AM |
And "Staggerlee" (sometimes "Stagolee") was a pimp, who figures in Black American folklore, so the pseudonym has extra resonance as a parody of tropes of Black masculinity. (There's a "murder ballad" about him.)
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 28, 2023 12:13 PM |
[quote]Jeffrey Wright was excellent.
No surprise there.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 28, 2023 1:09 PM |
In development: the theatrical verson of "White Like Me".
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 28, 2023 1:31 PM |
I guess the young'uns never heard this tune.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 28, 2023 1:38 PM |
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