I performed for royalty headlining for the king of Monaco in Monte-Carlo. We, I repeat we the divas of the theatre in the 80’s created the word fierce long before Tyra started using it. I had understudies that would slug you while you were on stage, and when we all got backstage the fur would fly. After surviving things like that I assumed I, was pretty fierce.
My friends say to me Girl when you write your memoirs, every body better look out.
Then came Hollywood, and my role of Vivian Banks, fast forward a 20 year career devistated in the blink of an eye.
I now realized that people loved her, I didn’t realize, until many years later as I have avoided people in supermarkets, and in drugstore aisles. I had always wanted to do PERFECTION IS NOT A SITCOM MOM as a crazy club act. Vivian Banks was a character thought up by Andy and Susan Borowiitz, but I gave her life and so it is my duty to finally put her change to rest. I chronicles the sudden change of her character like a CSI episode, detailing the plot, the murder, the funeral, the trial, with actual deposition material taken by a team of 9 attorneys, hired by the "we bring good things to life," GE company, owners of NBC.
I solve Vivian’s disappearance as if it were a cold case, because the dark skinned, elegant Vivian just disappeared, and the viewing public, as stated by Smith was to act as if nothing happened. I hope to stop the blogs and the jump the shark web sites for decades to come with polls of why Vivian changed.
I spend some time answering this question, but I tell you all kinds of stories, of true divas of the theatre, to my last conversation with the great Phyllis Hyman.
No I don’t dance anymore, because it really hurts, I don’t sing, very much because I got jacked after leaving the Fresh Prince by the entire Burbank Police Department, and I completed over 390 hours of community service, in the river bottom of Riverside county with convicts while hiding under hats, no I wasn’t doing Katherine Hepburn from the African Queen.
It is my hope that the reader or those of you who do decide to read my journey will learn that all that glitters is sometimes not gold. Fame is not the golden goose to be treasured, sometimes the goose gets cooked, and the measures some will go to for Fame.
There were no ghost writers brave enough to write this book for me. I got turned down because folks were afraid of the backlash of the Willacane. So I have chosen to do it myself.
I hope my journey will inspire women everywhere to stand up for what they believe in, no matter what the cost. Give you an insight into the world that so many folks long to be in, expose some of the treatment of Black actresses in Hollywood, and perhaps give you good laugh.
PERFECTION IS NOT A SITCOM MOM RELEASE 2010