BERIGAN Posted December 29, 2003 Report Posted December 29, 2003 Like I said,a couple of my posts point to the correct answer. Posts on this thread? Fourth and Sixth, to be exact. Now if you say Bessie, I meant Bessie when talking about the "sisters"! If it ain't her, I gives up! 1 down, 2 more to go.... Quote
JSngry Posted December 29, 2003 Report Posted December 29, 2003 Yeah, I thought that Bessie had been ruled out too. But that doesn't look like Bessie to me. Quote
catesta Posted December 29, 2003 Report Posted December 29, 2003 I give up. Can we get a third? Quote
Christiern Posted December 29, 2003 Author Report Posted December 29, 2003 Well, y'all are kinda slow today, so here are the two lines (from separate posts) that should have provided the correct answer: This sister is not one of those sisters. Y'all should have gotten it the first time. C'mon now--you saw her face, now let's have her name. Now, let's have it! Quote
Jazzmoose Posted December 29, 2003 Report Posted December 29, 2003 Hmmm...familiar name...sister...WAIT! I've got it!! It's SISTER BESSIE ALFREDSON!!!! Gloss? Marsh?? Shit, I give up...but I don't want to! Quote
catesta Posted December 29, 2003 Report Posted December 29, 2003 (edited) Obviously I'm extra slow today, and the Mexican cook-out I attended yesterday is not helping. Chris, is it that obvious? Edited December 29, 2003 by catesta Quote
Christiern Posted December 29, 2003 Author Report Posted December 29, 2003 I think so..should I reveal and post the lowdown on the photo? Quote
Christiern Posted December 29, 2003 Author Report Posted December 29, 2003 First, the clues you all missed... This sister is not one of those sisters. Y'all should have gotten it the first time. C'mon now--you saw her face, now let's have her name. Now the right answer (and a little behind-the-photo bonus)... In the early-1970s, I sold a film option to Bessie to Porter Bibb, who was then the publisher of Rolling Stone and Associate Producer of Gimme Shelter, but has since made a name for himself in the financial world. Porter(and, presumably, still is) was a terrific guy, but I’m afraid he suffered the limits of most white Americans when it came to black people. No, I’m not talking about racism, or anything of the sort, but rather about their limited awareness of the black scene. That’s how Porter hired Melvin Van Peeples to write the script, based on my book--Melvin was still cashing in on his controversial film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, so his was a name white people knew. Porter also picked someone to play Bessie, a truly wonderful person who was very wrong for the part. In typical Peeples fashion, Melvin came up with a rather off-beat scenario wherein Bessie was the heavyweight champion of the world, between Jack Johnson and Joe Louis. An interesting idea, but it wasn’t going to work, and the screenplay draft was pretty dreadful. The result was that Melvin was taken off the project, and the screen writing chores given to Horton Foote. In an attempt to avert that change, Melvin took our star to a photo studio and had this picture of “The Champeen” taken. The lady isRoberta Flack ...who may never speak to me again Quote
catesta Posted December 29, 2003 Report Posted December 29, 2003 Of course now it all makes sense. Quote
Big Al Posted December 29, 2003 Report Posted December 29, 2003 Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Now it all makes sense. I think! Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted December 30, 2003 Report Posted December 30, 2003 I think Roberta would object to the exposure of those thighs. She'd have been great! Thanks for the teaser Chris. Quote
Christiern Posted December 30, 2003 Author Report Posted December 30, 2003 Chuck, those thighs have been retired. Quote
Spontooneous Posted December 30, 2003 Report Posted December 30, 2003 What a story, Chris! Now back to work on my script casting Charlie Parker as a key scientist on the Manhattan Project. Quote
brownie Posted December 30, 2003 Report Posted December 30, 2003 Well I was not that far off track when I mentioned Ruth Brown. The photo did look like a nowadays restaged photo. But Roberta Flack looks better on the second photo Chris posted And I have no regret that that Bessie Smith flick did not happen. Melvin Van Peebles script? Come on!! The film could have competed with that 'Lady Sings the Blues' stupidity with Diana Ross as one of those Hollywood worst errors (horrors?). Quote
Jazzmoose Posted December 30, 2003 Report Posted December 30, 2003 Well...the clue makes perfect sense now, but you could have been even more obvious, and I'd have never guessed that! Wow... Quote
Bright Moments Posted December 31, 2003 Report Posted December 31, 2003 That was fun! Thanks! DO ANOTHER!!!!! Quote
BERIGAN Posted December 31, 2003 Report Posted December 31, 2003 Interesting story Chris! But who here owns any Roberta??? Quote
doubleM Posted December 31, 2003 Report Posted December 31, 2003 I own some Roberta. Music. I think she put out some god stuff in the olden days. Quote
Jazzmoose Posted December 31, 2003 Report Posted December 31, 2003 Me too. The obvious early seventies stuff. Okay, technically it belongs to the wife, but I listen as well... Quote
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