Comments on: NAACP Image Award Nominations http://honeydripper-movie.com/naacp-image-award-nominations/ Mon, 12 May 2008 01:36:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Fran Leslie http://honeydripper-movie.com/naacp-image-award-nominations/#comment-497 Fran Leslie Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:14:22 +0000 http://honeydripper-movie.com/naacp-image-award-nominations/#comment-497 Honeydripper is like an historical document about a pivotal moment in US music, the birth of rock & roll. Danny Glover plays an Alabama bar owner and piano player. Musicians Keb Mo, Mable John, Eddie Shaw and the outstanding young singer and guitarist Gary Clark Jnr and a repertoire of fine music complete the picture. Fran Leslie - Editor: Blues In Britain magazine Honeydripper is like an historical document about a pivotal moment in US music, the birth of rock & roll. Danny Glover plays an Alabama bar owner and piano player. Musicians Keb Mo, Mable John, Eddie Shaw and the outstanding young singer and guitarist Gary Clark Jnr and a repertoire of fine music complete the picture. Fran Leslie - Editor: Blues In Britain magazine

]]> By: Angie Long http://honeydripper-movie.com/naacp-image-award-nominations/#comment-312 Angie Long Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:39:33 +0000 http://honeydripper-movie.com/naacp-image-award-nominations/#comment-312 It certainly deserves these accolades. What amazes me is how several big city critics have called the movie cliched and stereotyped...I have now seen it three times, twice on DVD and once in the theater (it had its Alabama premiere Saturday night in the county where most of it was filmed) and as Maggie herself told me, "They (the critics) didn't get it." John added, "Unfortunately, all some of them know of the south is from TV shows and movies." Well, I grew up in the south, returned to the south after 12 years away, and from talking with black and white people who saw and participated in the making of the movie, it got an awful lot of things right. If you listen to the wonderful New Beginnings choir sing and don't feel the touch of God, you ain't alive, folks! It certainly deserves these accolades. What amazes me is how several big city critics have called the movie cliched and stereotyped…I have now seen it three times, twice on DVD and once in the theater (it had its Alabama premiere Saturday night in the county where most of it was filmed) and as Maggie herself told me, “They (the critics) didn’t get it.”
John added, “Unfortunately, all some of them know of the south is from TV shows and movies.”
Well, I grew up in the south, returned to the south after 12 years away, and from talking with black and white people who saw and participated in the making of the movie, it got an awful lot of things right. If you listen to the wonderful New Beginnings choir sing and don’t feel the touch of God, you ain’t alive, folks!

]]> By: Anika http://honeydripper-movie.com/naacp-image-award-nominations/#comment-254 Anika Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:31:24 +0000 http://honeydripper-movie.com/naacp-image-award-nominations/#comment-254 will this play be coming to the Maryland area? will this play be coming to the Maryland area?

]]> By: Don http://honeydripper-movie.com/naacp-image-award-nominations/#comment-205 Don Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:43:18 +0000 http://honeydripper-movie.com/naacp-image-award-nominations/#comment-205 Congratulations on the nods from NAACP. Any chance of seeing the script online? Don Congratulations on the nods from NAACP. Any chance of seeing the script online?

Don

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