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Teaser: Sam leaps into a member of a teenage singing group...Supreme's style! He is there to prevent one of the other girls in the group from signing a contract with a man who has a hidden agenda. Can Sam fix things so that she can still sing professionally and keep the relationship between her and her father alive? Great songs and great soul in this episode! |
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| Place: Chicago, Illinois |
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| Leap Date: April 7, 1963 |
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| Leapee: Cherea |
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| Broadcast Date: February 26, 1992 - Wednesday |
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April 7, 1963 – Chicago, Illinois. When Sam leaps in, he is on a stage with two other young ladies – it looks like they have just finished singing. As Sam exits, he hits his head on a stage lamp. The other two girls are excited and giggling. They are all dressed in black spaghetti-strap tea-length dresses. Sam sees himself in a mirror – he is a beautiful young black woman named Cherea (played by Tiffany Jameson). The crowd outside is loud and chants “Dovettes” to get them back on stage. The other two girls grab Sam to go back on stage. He doesn’t want to go, and as they pull him back, he looks at his reflection in the mirror and grimacingly says, “Oh boy.” When they get back on stage, the Dovettes get to sing again. They begin to sing “My Boyfriend’s Back”. Sam doesn’t seem to know the lyrics or movements the girls have practiced. Sam truly fumbles through the song – sometimes singing but mostly watching, and the crowd laughs. As Sam fumbles with the song, and the crowd gets antsy – the crowd begins to leave. The girls finish the song, and there’s some clapping. As they walk off, someone in the crowd yells, “Who did that hair?” We find out that the girls are participating in a contest hosted by Robert “Bobby” Z. Lee (played by Eric LaSalle). If they win the competition, they will use their winnings to get new costumes, $100, and they will also get a shot at the final. The girls discuss this as they walk down the street late at night. They have now changed into other dresses. Sam is in a white top with red sleeves, a white and pink puffy skirt, and a brown coat. Paula (played by T’Keyah "Crystal" Keymah) is in a flowery dress, and Lynell Walters (played by Tamara Townsend) is dressed in a blue and white plaid dress. The girls continue to complain about not winning the competition, and they also discuss how late they are up and how their parents would be upset about curfews. They passed a group of guys (played by Clyde R. Jones, Tommy Morgan, and Christopher M. Brown) who had been humming a song. The guys call out to the girls, wanting them to stop and talk to them. Sam keeps trying to make them move faster down the road, but the other two girls return to the boys. Paula keeps putting the boys down. TEEN #2: Hey baby, come over here and talk to me. PAULA: Who in the heck would want to talk to your ugly behind? TEEN #2: You are talking to me, Paula? Hey, come on, and why don’t you bring your fine brown body over here? PAULA: I don’t talk to night crawlers, so you can just crawl back into whatever cave you came from. One of the young men keeps trying to poke at Sam, and Sam slaps the hand down twice. Sam keeps trying to get Paula and Lynell to move down the street and finally has to grab Paula and tells her to keep walking. The three men follow and catch up to them, and the older man stops Sam. Sam is pushed up against a car, and Sam tells the girls to keep walking. Lynell says her father would be upset because she’s not home already. The older man then turns back on Sam to pull the sweater Sam has on down to pin his arms. Sam immediately kicks the guy in the groin with his knee. The other two men grab Sam by his arms. In a quick movement, Sam slams his hands back into their groins; then Roundhouse kicks the first in the face. Surprised by the attack, all three men ran away. Paula and Lynell are shocked and can’t believe what their friend did. They think that they need to take Sam to the hospital because of the head injury. They make fun of the roundhouse kick and wonder how he knew the move – all the while, Sam is doing his level best to get them moving to go home. They get to the house, and Lynell asks Sam (Cherea) if he wants to spend the night with her when Lynell’s father, Reverend Walters (played by Harrison Page), comes out onto the stoop, saying they need to get their behinds in the house and seriously explain why his fifteen-year-old daughter is out at two in the morning. They quickly get inside. Reverend Walters is pacing in front of them, half preaching/half castigating them as Sam narrates: Quantum Leaping has taught me a lot about people, and I knew right away that I liked this man. Even with all his blustering and bravado, Reverand Walters was saying everything I had wanted to say since the leap started, and his concern for his daughter's safety and well-being was grounded in as much reality as the walk we just took home. Since the girls were on the streets of Chicago, Reverend Walters said that he was taking it upon himself to call the other girls' parents to tell them what was happening—the late nights and the lying. Lynell tells her father they wouldn’t have to lie if he’d just come to hear them sing. The reverend doesn’t want his daughter to be singing in a brothel. Paula has to go home, but Sam can stay since the reverend cannot reach Cherea’s family. Lynell tells her father that he doesn’t understand how important this is for her, and he tells her that it’s nonsense to sing in a nightclub. Lynell tries to stand up for herself. Then her father tells her what is nonsense: “Not finishing school is nonsense. Not getting a degree is nonsense. Not making something of yourself is nonsense.” Lynell says that she wants other people to hear her sing. Her father says that she can sing in his church. Lynell even tells her father, “God gave me this gift. I can do with it what I want.” Reverend Walters lays down the law, “Not under my roof.” Lynell then threatens to leave. Sam tries to comfort and stop Lynell from leaving, but Lynell isn’t having it. She cries out, “I won’t let him lock me up in this miserable house. It killed Mama, and I won’t let it kill me, too!” She then runs out of the room. Paula tries to comfort the reverend, saying that Lynell didn’t mean to say the things she did. He loves his daughter and tries to do the right things, and hopefully, she’ll learn when she’s older. Reverend Walters says he’ll walk Paula home. Sam suggests that he will walk her home and that the reverend should speak to his daughter. Reverend Walters asks, “Then who will walk you back?” Paula tries to tell the Reverend about the kick when Sam shuts her up. Reverend Walters puts on his coat and leaves with Paula. The looks that Sam and Paula give each other are priceless. Sam then hears the squawk of the handlink and realizes that Al’s been there since the fireworks between Lynell and her father. Al is dressed in a tan jacket, tan suit pants, a dark sparkling shirt, a dark sparkling tie, and a square with an oval opal pin on his lapel. They talk about how angry Lynell is. When asked about their future, Al tells Sam that all they know is that Lynell’s mother died about five years ago of unknown causes. She went to bed and stayed there until she died. There was no autopsy. Sam thinks that he’s there to help Lynell with her mother’s death, but Al says he doesn’t know. SAM: What do you know? LYNELL: Know about what? SAM: Whatdoya know – you still have this old picture of us. AL: Good recovery, Sam. SAM: I just got that printed last week. AL: Not so good. SAM: Boy, time sure flies when you’re having fun. AL: Yeah, you should have quit while you were ahead. Lynell then tells Sam she feels she’s going crazy if she doesn’t leave this house. Al confirms with Ziggy, and we find out that she’ll run away the day after tomorrow. When asked what happened, Al shrugs, “No data.” Sam and Lynell talk about her father. Lynell thinks he controls her every move, and Sam thinks he’s just trying to protect her. The discussion goes back to Lynell’s mother. Lynell says her mother wasn’t allowed out—unless she went to the church. She had no friends. Lynell says she’s not angry but won’t let her father keep her locked up. When Sam asks Al what happened to Lynell, Al tells him Lynell runs away and tries to become a singer. She does get locked into a slave contract with Bobby Lee, and things go downhill after that. Her father dies in 1972 after the church burns down, and they never speak to each other ever again. We are now at the Reverend’s church. Sam is in the choir singing with the rest of the girls—all of the choir is in white robes. They sing, “He May Not Come When You Want Him, But He's Right on Time.” Everyone in the congregation is clapping and is with the Holy Spirit. The reverend then begins his sermon. He discusses how the church’s teens are singing God’s praises and doing good, but they could walk down the wrong path and that it’s their responsibility to be in the healing light of Jesus Christ. Al shows up dressed in a red fedora hat, a light blue shirt, a string tie, a multicolored vest with silver backing, red suit pants, and a red belt. As the reverend continues to preach, Al begins to react to it. REV. WALTERS: Hallelujah! AL: Hallelujah! REV. WALTERS: Glory, hallelujah! AL: Glory, hallelujah! All it takes is one good preacher to let you know that the devil is out to get you. Sam excuses himself as the choir continues to sing “Walk in the Light.” When Sam and Al are alone, this is the conversation: SAM: Al, I think I figured out why I’m here. AL: There’s a 90% chance that you're here to keep Lynelle out of show business. SAM: Wrong. AL: Wrong? SAM: Wrong. I think that I’m here to make sure that her father supports her, and if I can do that… that will keep their relationship intact. AL: No, no… Ziggy… no, no… SAM: Ziggy has been *known* to be *wrong*. (does a head nod that’s precious) AL: But we have to trust Ziggy’s statistics over yours. SAM: Why? AL: Why? Because Ziggy keeps better records. Al does tell Sam that he’s got to sing the day after tomorrow for a local contest. The winner receives $100 and a shot to sing at the Regal Theater. Lynell then goes to the contest and sings, but it’s a fiasco when her father shows up and pulls her off the stage, and they never talk again. SAM: Well, then, I’m right. I’m here to help Reverend Walters support his daughter to … to… to accept her and understand her. AL: So, how you gonna do that? SAM: Ehhh… well, I don’t know. I mean, maybe… maybe you know… if he heard how good they were… no no no no… then I’d have to sing! AL: So? SAM: First, I don’t know any of the songs or the routines, and second, I’m a man and not a sixteen-year-old girl! AL: That never stopped you before. Al then tells Sam he has a 50/50 chance of getting this right. Sam’s not so sure, but Al becomes adamant that he can show him how to do it right. AL: Well, I do. I can teach you some moves. SAM: You can teach me some moves? (laughing) AL: I was in the Regal Theatre in its heyday. I remember the Marvelettes, Smokey, Martha and the Vandellas, and James Brown – the hardest-working man in show business. You have to remember to keep your harmony tight and remember to say… (A song cuts him off with… "I can mash potato” in the background) There’s a montage of Sam teaching the girls how to dance to the song “Do you love me?” by the Contours while Lynell is singing. A cute moment occurs when Paula blurts out, “Damn, Cherea, you dance like a white girl.” After the montage, Lynell is upset that they are using an older song and would like something hot and fresh. Sam is trying to come up with a new song with Al’s help when Bobby Lee shows up in the doorway with a suggestion for them to sing – “Heat Wave" by Martha and the Vandellas. Lynell’s demeanor quickly changes, and you can tell she likes Bobby. She’s suddenly shy and diminutive. Sam tries to get Bobby out of Lynell’s room, and even Paula says that Lynell’s father would murder them if he were found in her room. Bobby asks if they can learn the song, and when the girls say yes, Bobby suggests that they sing with the band. Bobby gives them the 45 record for the song, and when Sam asks why he would do such a thing, Bobby says he believes in young talent – plus, if they win, they could sign a seclusive deal with him, and he’d take them straight to the top. Al lets Sam know that Bobby is a small business owner and a pimp and eventually gets twenty years for statutory rape. Sam hand-delivers Bobby down the stairs toward the door. The Reverend comes in, grabs Bobby, and throws him up against the wall, asking why he’s there. Paula tells the Reverend about the record and that it hasn’t even been played on the radio yet. Reverend Walters won’t hear of Bobby Lee being in his house because he knows what Bobby said to Brown’s 13-year-old daughter. Bobby was not charged, but he says it’s her word against mine. Lynell then breaks into the conversation, telling her father that Mr. Lee came to be nice to her – not to commit a crime. Her father tries to explain how Bobby will hurt her. Lynell shoots back at him, “Does that privilege only belong to you, Daddy?” The reverend then raises his hand to strike her, and Lynell turns her back on him. Sam steps up to stop him, but the reverend stops himself. He demands Lynell go to her room, but she’s very defiant. The reverend reverts to Bobby Lee, telling him that he better not mess with his daughter, or he’d come down and rip down the brothel he calls a club with his bare hands. Bobby threatens back that if he comes down to the club, God himself will have to get him off. It’s then that Sam steps between the two of them and ushers Bobby Lee out of the house. Instead of going to her room, Lynell tries to run after Bobby. Sam then has Al search for all the record companies in the area that would like to come to hear the Dovettes sing so they won’t have to deal with Bobby Lee. In the next scene, Lynell is in a pink and white flowery dress and sitting on the staircase, looking down at her feet with a picture frame in her hands, looking despondent. Sam comes up in a light blue flowery dress with bows at the shoulders. Sam, always the optimist, tries to console her: SAM: What are you doing? LYNELL: Looking at my feet. SAM: (walks around to look at her feet) Those are nice feet. LYNELL: Yep, and they’re nailed down right here at 47th and Alice. Nailed down tighter than a pine coffin, and I’m running out of air, Cherea. SAM: Oh, now, everything is going to be fine. LYNELL: That’s what momma used to say. She’d say, ‘We’ll make it just fine, Lynell. Just fine.’ SAM: I’m sure she meant it, too. LYNELL: She did until she decided to die. SAM: People don’t decide to die. LYNELL: Momma did, and you know what? I think she was happy - happy to be free. SAM: How could she be happy, Lynell? She had to leave behind a daughter that she loved. LYNELL: She hated him more. She tried to leave him once. She took me, and she tried to run away. But he brought us back. You know why? SAM: Because he loved you? LYNELL: (Shakes her head) Because he was afraid about what people would say about the righteous reverend if his wife ran off and left him. It didn’t matter that she wasn’t happy, that she had no life of her own, the only thing that mattered is what other people thought. That’s when she decided to die – and so will I if we don’t sing in this contest tomorrow night. SAM: Now, wait, just a second; singing in a contest will not save your life. LYNELL: Yeah, but Bobby said he could… SAM: Wait, wait, wait. Forget about Bobby. Forget about his contract. Today, I talked to the head of Decca Records. He said he could come and hear us sing. The two argue about whether or not to sing in Bobby’s club, and Sam finally gives in to her, but he makes a few demands of her. He asks her not to sign any contracts with Bobby Lee and for her to finish high school. Sam tells Lynell that she has to meet her father halfway, and he thinks her father will let her sing. Sam also believes that they should invite her father to hear them sing. As Lynell rushes off toward her room, Al appears and tells Sam that the plan they had just made doesn’t work. Lynell signs a contract with Bobby and has a miserable life. Sam believes he can’t change the past until he talks with the reverend on the night of the contest, but they do need new moves and choreography for the song. AL: Ziggy says this is going to be a catastrophe. SAM: Ziggy should have more faith in human nature. AL: (Al looks confused at the handlink) Ziggy says that’s the problem. The scene merges with the girls up on the stage at the club, walking through some of the moves for the contest. Sam is dressed in a light blue buttoned-up blouse and a matching skirt. Lynell is wearing a multicolored shirt and brown tight pants. Paula is in a tight-fitting, flowery dress. Al is watching them. He is now dressed in a mauve suit with a light purple shirt, a black-white-purple tie, and a purple swatch in his lapel. Rainey (played by G. Smokey Campbell) wants Bobby to look at the sheet music they will be using for the song, and Bobby recommends that Cherea do the same. Sam gives everyone a five-minute break as Rainey begins to come over. SAM: I can read music, right? AL: You have a doctorate in it. SAM: That’s good. While they talk, Bobby moves to speak with Lynell. He has a surprise for her: a beautiful, sparkly, long dress. He tells her it’s on loan until she has a contract with him. He then tries to kiss her. She hesitates, but then he does kiss her. After Sam and Al finish discussing the score with Rainey (who thinks the whole scene will be smoking), Paula tells Sam they must get going so they don’t look like amateurs from the boonies. They begin to look for Lynell. They call out her name. Al decides to find her and says he’ll call out when he sees her. Al finds Lynell and Bobby on the side of the stage. Bobby is groping and trying to kiss her face, neck, anywhere he can get, as Lynell continues to push him away from her, asking him to stop. Al gets in front of Bobby, saying Lynell is only fifteen, but Bobby continues. Al calls out to Sam, and Sam comes running to assist. He grabs Bobby from behind and pulls him off of Lynell, throwing him to the ground. PAULA: Damn. BOBBY: Bitch, you better not put your hands on me again. SAM: Then keep your hands off of her. BOBBY: Look, I wasn’t doing anything that she didn’t want me to do. LYNELL: You were hurting me. BOBBY: Look, this is my club. If you want to sing here, you better take whatever I dish out. SAM: We don’t need you or your club. LYNELL: Cherea! BOBBY: I want an apology. AL: Don’t do it. SAM: (Shaking his head) Look, we don’t need this guy, okay? BOBBY: Then get out of here. Now, if you want to sing here tonight, you’ll come back here with an apology, or you can forget it. (He leaves) LYNELL: What have you done? AL: Saved your pretty little neck. SAM: What have I done? LYNELL: We… We got to apologize. PAULA: Are you crazy? SAM: We don’t need this guy. We-we’ll get the guy from the record company…. LYNELL: To do what? To come see us perform in my bedroom? Now, either you apologize with me, or I’m going on by myself. Al then updates Sam on the history that Ziggy is telling him through the handlink. Lynell ends up going on alone, and her father still pulls her off stage, and this time, she ends up completely alone. Al tells Sam he has one last chance to speak to her father. The next scene is at the reverend’s church. He’s speaking to his wife, Sylvia, about how much he misses her. He misses her wisdom the most. He says that only she knew how to talk to Lynell. He speaks of Lynell's anger inside of her. He thought Lynell was mad at her mother for dying or angry at him for letting her mother die. While he is talking to his wife, Sam walks into the room. He says that Lynell is mad at herself, and the reverend sighs. REVEREND: I shouldn’t have let Lynell take care of her mother. No one should have to deal with that kind of pain. SAM: My mother used to say, ‘God only gives us what we think we can handle.’ REVEREND: She blames me, and now, I’ve lost her. SAM: No, you haven’t. Not yet, anyway. REVEREND: If I try to hold onto her, she’ll just run away from me. SAM: Like your wife did. REVEREND: Sylvia was sick for a long time. She stopped seeing her friends. She locked herself away from everybody. When she found out she was dying, she tried to run away from me. SAM: But Lynell said that you stopped them. REVEREND: Them? SAM: Yeah. REVEREND: She didn’t take Lynell with her. SAM: But Lynell said…. REVEREND: That’s what Lynell needed to believe. When her mother left, she cried for weeks. I finally found her in a hotel. I brought her back home. Lynell never left her side. Not until they came and took her away. She had a right to be angry because I left them there to face death while I came and hid in my church. I couldn’t….. And now I’ve lost my little girl, too. SAM: Not if you stand by her. You tell her that you want her to sing tonight, that you want to be there to hear her. REVEREND: No. No, I can’t do that. She has to finish school so she can become somebody. SAM: You have to trust her to find her own reasons to finish school. Let her make her own choices. REVEREND: She’s 15 years old. She’ll have plenty of time to make her own choices. AL: What now? Ziggy says that there’s a 70% chance that Lynell will go back to that club and apologize to that slime bucket. SAM: (incredulous) She still goes on tonight. AL: Yes, she goes on alone, and get this, she doesn’t win, and then she gets even more desperate. You’ve got to save her from this pervert, Sam. The scene then bounces to Lynell’s bedroom. Paula and Lynell are talking about Bobby. Paula is concerned Lynell will “give it up to that creep.” Paula tries to explain that she shouldn’t be sorry. When Sam shows up at the door, they talk about Bobby as a dog instead of a prominent businessman Lynell thinks he is. Sam reluctantly apologizes to Bobby, and the girls follow him to win the contest. The next scene is at the club that Bobby Lee owns. There’s a contestant singing. He’s singing “Stay” by Maurice Williams. We next see Bobby and Al standing side by side. Bobby hopes the girls will show up, and Al calls Bobby a jerk. The looks he gives him are priceless. When Bobby hears that the Dovettes are in the club, he tells a hand to have them dress in the pink sequence so they look good when they come crawling back to him. Al says, “Sam, I sure do hope you know what you’re doing.” It's then that the Reverend shows up. Bobby and the Reverend talk. The Reverend asks Bobby to tell her she can’t sing in the club. The Reverend wants Lynell to wait a couple of years. He says he’ll make a deal with Bobby that he won’t tell the authorities that he has minors in the club. The Dovettes are on the scene (quick change of clothes at that point), and Lynell says she doesn’t want her father to make deals for her. Bobby asks for his apology, and Sam reluctantly asks them to sing in the club. Bobby says, “And when you win, you’ll sign a seven-year contract.” The reverend tries once more to stop Lynell from singing. Sam asks the reverend to trust her. A brief moment passes – then the reverend relinquishes and tells her to sing with all of her heart. The Dovettes come on the stage and sing “Heat Wave” by Martha and the Vandellas. While they are singing on stage, the reverend sees a man come up to Bobby and tell him Lynell is the real deal. He looks upset, but he’s also happy for his daughter. Instead of staying with her, he leaves. Bobby then tells Lynell that they won the contest and that she’s going to be a star. The scene merges into the church where Sam and the Reverend are. REVEREND: She’s gone, Cherea. She’s gone for good, you know. SAM: A prophet named Gibran once said, hold your children with open arms, and they will always know they can come home to you. REVEREND: No. Too much has gone on between us. She’ll never forgive me for loving her the only way I knew how. I’ll miss her Cherea. I’ll miss that angelic face of hers. I’ll miss it. I’ll never hear her sing again. At that point, Lynell begins to sing at the church's opening. She sings, “His Eye Is on the Sparrow.” (If you can make it through the scene without crying, you are better than I am.) Al shows up at Sam’s side as they listen to Lynell sing to her father. As the camera flashes back and forth between Sam and Al and Lynell and her father, you can see that everyone is close to tears. Sam leaps. He leaps into a pilot who has a cigarette in his mouth. The cigarette drops, and he leans over to pick it up, causing the airplane elevator to move toward the dash, which in turn causes the airplane to dive toward water. In a gaspy breath, Sam says, “Oh boy.” Synopsis by M.J. Cogburn |
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Personal Review by M.J. Cogburn: This is a perfect story of how a father and daughter are split apart by a death in a family and then a putting your trust in your offspring brings them back together. It’s a wonderful story and those who don’t get misty-eyed at the end are completely insane! I love this episode. It shows more than just Sam’s legs! |
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Music (as sung by the cast): "Do You Love Me?" by The Contours "Stay" by
Maurice Williams "Heat
Wave" by Martha and the Vandellas "His Eye is on the Sparrow" is sung by Tamara Townsend Video: ♫ "His Eye is on the Sparrow" ❖Tamara Townsend ♫ |
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Sam Trivia: Sam's first thoughts of the Leap: |
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| Sam's Dresses: 1) Black strap tea length dress 2) Red and white poodle skirt, white top with red cuffs, brown jacket 3) Flowery sundress with bows on shoulders 4) Light blue dress with pumps to match 5) Long pink sparkly performing dress |
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| Al Trivia: When teaching moves to Sam and the girls for their finale, it’s interesting to see that he’s doing his own little dance while they are dancing to the song. |
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| Al's
Outfits: 1) Tan jacket Tan suit pants Dark sparkling shirt Dark sparking tie Square with oval opal pin on his lapel. 2)
Red fedora hat |
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The
Leap-out at the end of the previous episode features Bobby Lee asking
the singers to do a reprise, but in the full episode, the scene is
removed and replaced with audience shots added in. |
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Character Trivia: Cherea: Paula: Lynelle Walters: Reverend Walters: Robert Z. "Bobby"
Lee: |
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Cast: Tamara Townsend as Lynelle Walters T’Keyah "Crystal" Keymah as Paula Harrison Page as Reverend Walters Eric LaSalle as Robert "Bobby" Z. Lee Richard McGregor as Jo Jo G. Smokey Campbell as Rainey (Bobby Lee’s Music Assistant) Tiffany Jameson as Cherea (Mirror Image) Clyde R. Jones as Raghead Teen #1 Tommy Morgan as Raghead Teen #2 Christopher M. Brown as Raghead Teen #3 |
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Tamara
Townsend as Lynelle Walters: She was
a series regular on the seventh and final season of OWN's acclaimed
drama series, "Queen Sugar." T’Keyah
"Crystal" Keymah as Paula: A
performer since childhood, performer, writer, producer and director
T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh (Ta-Kee-ah Kristle Kee-Mah) studied theater,
dance, voice, and pantomime in high school, then turned down a business
scholarship to complete her studies at Florida A&M University with
a degree in Theatre, co-oping at Florida State University to graduate,
with honors, on time. After college, the Chicago native worked as a
singer, dancer and actress, and won the title of Miss Black Illinois
before placing 1st runner-up in the Miss Black America pageant. She
moved to Los Angeles after wowing casting directors with her original
performance piece, "In Black World..." in an open call for a pilot on a
young television network. Eric LaSalle as Robert "Bobby" Z. Lee: Erik Ki La Salle (born July 23, 1962), professionally known as Eriq La Salle, is an American actor, director, writer and producer. La Salle is best known for his performance in the film Coming to America (1988) and especially as Dr. Peter Benton in the NBC medical drama ER (1994–2002; 2008–2009) which earned him three NAACP Image Awards and nominations for a Golden Globe Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards. Harrison
Page as Reverend Walters: Harrison
Page was born on August 27, 1941 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is an
actor, known for Lionheart (1990), Sledge Hammer! (1986) and Bad Ass
(2012). He has been married to Giles, Christina since September 17,
2013. They have one child. |
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Say What? |
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Quotable Quotes: PAULA: Who in the heck would want to talk to your ugly behind? TEEN #2: You talking to me, Paula? Hey come on and why don’t you bring your fine brown body over here? PAULA:
I don’t talk to night crawlers so you can just crawl back into whatever
cave you came from. LYNELLE: Know about what? SAM: Whatdoya know? You still have this old picture of us. AL: Good recovery, Sam. LYNELLE: I just had that printed last week. AL: Oh… not so good. SAM:
Time sure does fly when you have fun, huh? *** REV. WALTERS: Hallelujah! AL:
Hallelujah! AL:
Glory, hallelujah! All it takes is one good preacher to let you know
that the devil is out to get you. AL: So, how you gonna do that? SAM: Ehhh… well, I don’t know. I mean, maybe… maybe you know… if he heard how good they were… no no no no… then I’d have to sing! AL: So? SAM: So, first I don’t know any of the songs or the routines and secondly, I’m a man and not a sixteen-year-old girl! AL: That never stopped you before. *** SAM: You can teach me some moves? (laughing) AL: I was in the Regal Theatre in its hey day. I remember the Marvelettes, Smokey, Martha and the Vandellas, James Brown – the hardest working man in show business. You have to remember to keep your harmony tight and remember to say… (song cuts him off with… "Do you love me?" in the background) *** Video look: The girls are being shown the moves that Al is giving to Sam and the girls are having a hard time getting the moves right. PAULA: Damn, Cheree! You dance like a white girl! *** AL: Ziggy says this whole thing is going to be a catastrophe. SAM: Ziggy should have a little more faith in human nature. AL: Ziggy says that’s the problem. *** SAM: A prophet name Gibran once said, hold your children with open arms and they will always know they can come home to you. *** SAM: God only gives us what he thinks we can handle. |
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Best Lines: SAM: Al, I think I figured out why I’m here. AL: There’s a 90% chance that your here to keep Lynelle out of show business. SAM: Wrong. AL: Wrong? AL: No, no… Ziggy… no, no… SAM: Ziggy has been *known* to be *wrong*. (does a head nod that’s precious) AL: But we have to trust Ziggy’s statistics over yours. SAM: Why? |
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Best Scene: Why
should I feel
discouraged? When
Jesus is my portion I
sing because I’m happy Here is the Whitney Houston cover: |
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Awards: Emmy Nominations for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Direction for a Series in 1992: Cameron Birnie, Ellen Dambros-Williams and Robert L. Zilliox American Cinema Editors Award: Jon Koslowsky |
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Theme by: Mike Post Panaflex ® Camera and Lenses by: Panavision ® |
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