11 august 2009

Billie Holyday

"I thought I was going to play myself in it. I thought I was going to be Billie Holiday doing a couple of songs in a nightclub setting and that would be that. I should have known better. When I saw the script, I did. You just tell one Negro girl who's made movies who didn't play a maid or a whore. I don't know any. I found out I was going to do a little singing, but I was still playing the part of a maid."

povestea filmului o găsiţi aici

şi în continuare, cea mai cunoscută piesă şi preferata mea, o versiune un pic diferită a Colibei Unchiului Tom a lui Beecher Stowe

când eram mic îmi era frică de piesa asta, imaginea copacilor plini de corpuri, asemenea fructelor … brrr