It’s somewhere in the middle and that’s this movie. This doesn’t have the flash to sparkle and it’s not dark enough to be dangerous. The side characters don’t get much shine. Irene Cara is a great singer along with the other characters. The two leads are fine and they would go on to do bigger things. That’s really his day job while he dabbles in directing. The director has most of his credits as an editor. In the disco era, this must have stuck out like a sore thumb. It’s also a traditional music biopic construction. He becomes the manager of her and her two older sisters in a girl singing group. 15 year old Sparkle Williams (Irene Cara) falls for Stix (Philip M. So it’s in her memory I dedicate this review. Houston as the mother, my heart broke when I realized she wouldn’t live to see the result which will be released this August. When I read the obits of Whitney Houston yesterday and found out about her involvement in an upcoming remake with Jordin Sparks as the title character and Ms. The drama was maybe a little too quick the way they were presented but overall, I very much liked Sparkle. It was also a nice treat to see Don Bexley-best known to me and others as Bubba on “Sandford and Son”-as one of the M.C.’s. The presentations of the performances are very good especially when Ms. The original songs are by Curtis Mayfield who was from Chicago of which I’m also a native of. Philip Michael Thomas also appears as Stix who’s originally one of two male members of the group before becoming the groups’ manager later on. It’s about a trio of Harlem sisters consisting of Lonette McKee (Sister), Dwan Smith (Dolores), and Irene Cara (Sparkle). Sparkle Movie Reviews Sparkle is quite a charming musical drama about three sisters forming a groupĪfter several years of reading about this musical film, I finally watched Sparkle on Netflix Streaming. Vance‘s Corey, in August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences.Magnet:?xt=urn:btih:B66F47C556D74BB827A0FCDF0A0A2C73C6AE0B74 The distinguished Alice received her Tony for best featured actress in a play in 1987 for her turn as Rose, wife of James Earl Jones‘ Troy and mother of Courtney B. To explain the change in appearance, it was noted that The Oracle’s outer shell had been destroyed by the criminal program known as the Merovingian. “Only in her mid-30s when she played the role, Alice beautifully crystallized - and saluted - all the mothers who went the extra mile for their children,” Bob McCann wrote in 2009’s Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television.Īfter Gloria Foster, who portrayed The Oracle in the first two Matrix movies, died in 2001, Alice stepped in to lead the way to enlightenment in The Matrix Revolutions (2003). (In her final role, Whitney Houston played the character in the 2012 reboot.) In the cult favorite Sparkle (1976), the Harlem-set rags-to-riches story inspired by The Supremes, Alice was memorable as Effie, the single mom raising daughters played by Irene Cara, Lonette McKee and Dwan Smith. She also played dorm director Lettie Bostic in 1988-89 on the first two seasons of NBC’s A Different World the mother of Oprah Winfrey‘s Mattie Michael in 1989 on the ABC miniseries The Women of Brewster Place and the mother of Harold Perrineau Jr.’s Augustus Hill in 2002 on HBO’s Oz. The onetime Chicago schoolteacher received back-to-back Emmy nominations in 1992 and ’93 - winning in the second year - for her supporting turn as Marguerite Peck, whose child is murdered, on the Atlanta-set NBC legal drama I’ll Fly Away, starring Sam Waterston and Regina Taylor. Matthew Perry Died From Acute Effects of Ketamine, Autopsy Reveals In 1990 films, Alice played Nurse Margaret opposite Robin Williams and Robert De Niro in Awakenings, directed by Penny Marshall the family matriarch dealing with a disruptive guest ( Danny Glover) in Charles Burnett’s To Sleep With Anger and a woman whose son was struck by a car in the South Bronx in Brian De Palma‘s The Bonfire of the Vanities. She was 85.Īlice died Wednesday in her Manhattan apartment, an NYPD spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. Mary Alice, the Tony- and Emmy-winning actress who starred in the original Broadway production of Fences, portrayed the mother of three singing daughters in Sparkle and appeared as The Oracle in The Matrix Revolutions, has died.
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