'The Color Purple Tour' star Michelle Williams, who plays jook joint sensation Shug Avery, chats up party-goers at the post-opening reception held at the Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles.
I saw the Color Purple and Michelle was awesome. I was never really a Michelle fan until I saw her in that play. She was great! My cousin wanted her money back when she heard Michelle was in it (hater:-), however, after seeing it, even she had to admit that Michelle was awesome. It is obvious that those that are complaining about the "male bashing" did not see the play. The plays ending is altered from the book and I found it to be much more "male friendly".
There were monsters like Mister, adultresses like shug, all of the same characters that lived then live in real life today. "The more things change the more things stay the same". The movie carried a much more deeper meaning than just a mean man, loose women, etc. #15 lighten up and get real. We know, everyone wasn't like those characters but I'm sure there were some people who lived their lives that way, so please don't simplify it by saying, "The writer wanted to write a story about some abused black women in a specific period. Now you can't tell me that throughout that whole time period there was not one woman that was an adultrer, who did not claim that a man was her child's father knowing full well it was someone else? You also can't tell me that there weren't women who henpecked their husbands into the arms of other women, just like today. If this is true then the lyrics of some of the hip-hop songs are correct, arne't they?" That just the story she chose to tell, it doesn't speak for everone who lived at that time period.
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By: robin on 12/31/2007 7:58PM
I saw the Color Purple and Michelle was awesome. I was never really a Michelle fan until I saw her in that play. She was great! My cousin wanted her money back when she heard Michelle was in it (hater:-), however, after seeing it, even she had to admit that Michelle was awesome. It is obvious that those that are complaining about the "male bashing" did not see the play. The plays ending is altered from the book and I found it to be much more "male friendly".
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By: Jamo on 1/03/2008 5:35PM
There were monsters like Mister, adultresses like shug, all of the same characters that lived then live in real life today. "The more things change the more things stay the same". The movie carried a much more deeper meaning than just a mean man, loose women, etc. #15 lighten up and get real. We know, everyone wasn't like those characters but I'm sure there were some people who lived their lives that way, so please don't simplify it by saying, "The writer wanted to write a story about some abused black women in a specific period. Now you can't tell me that throughout that whole time period there was not one woman that was an adultrer, who did not claim that a man was her child's father knowing full well it was someone else? You also can't tell me that there weren't women who henpecked their husbands into the arms of other women, just like today. If this is true then the lyrics of some of the hip-hop songs are correct, arne't they?" That just the story she chose to tell, it doesn't speak for everone who lived at that time period.
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