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The Fiasco of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Armond White Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Viola Davis looks frightening in the film version of August Wilson’s 1984 play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Her monstrous eye shadow, shark-jawed false teeth (recalling Richard Kiel chomping at James Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me), baggy bodysuit, and obviously dubbed singing prove that no one involved with this film feels any emotional connection with its historical subject. Ma Rainey (born Gertrude Pridgett in Columbus, Ga., in 1886) was known as “the Mother of the blues” for originating blu...

25 movies filmed in Syracuse that you can watch right now Updated Jan 03, 2021; Posted Dec 29, 2020 In this image provided by Hulu, the cast of "The Binge" is pictured filming a scene on Onondaga Lake Parkway in Liverpool, N.Y. The 2020 movie is directed by Jeremy Garelick, who launched American High at the former A.V. Zogg Middle School (now Syracuse Studios) in Liverpool. Facebook Share Looking for something familiar to watch? More than two dozen movies have been filmed in Syracuse, and you can watch almost all of them right now. Half of those movies were shot in the last five years, as C...

By Cherranda Smith Renowned playwright August Wilson will be honored by the United States Postal Service (USPS) with a Forever stamp.  The USPS made the announcement via social media posts and said the stamp will be dedicated to Wilson on January 28, 2021. Wilson, whose seminal play Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1945.  He won seven New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards, a Tony Award, and two Pulitzer prizes, one in 1987 and 1990 for Fences and

David Lee The director of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, an adaptation of August Wilson’s 1982 play that’s streaming now on Netflix, is discussing Hollywood’s seemingly reinvigorated appetite for adapting theater—evident in recent productions like The Boys in the Band, The Prom, Cats, and even his own latest—but doesn’t believe it’s anything new. “I think what is true is that Hollywood is filled with closeted theater folk,” he says. “And then periodically some of those people who are obsessed end up in positions of authority and they say, ‘Yes, we're doing it.’ That's...

  TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The latest Netflix adaptation of one of Pittsburgh native August Wilson’s plays, the filmed-in-Pittsburgh “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” stars Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman in a period piece that feels relevant and timely. An almost unrecognizable Davis, jettisoning any semblance of vanity, stars as Ma Rainey, a real historical figure and one of the earliest African-American blues singers to record her performances in the 1920s. Wilson’s 1982 play — it...