re: The Supreme Mary Wilson Reviews Dreamgirls

[Mischief]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 10:28am

Come See About the Big-Screen 'Dreamgirls'

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 10:38am

Wow, that's a pretty big difference between how Mary Wilson is handling the film release, and how Miss Holliday is handling it.

It's great to read her comments. I'm glad she likes the film and praises the people connected with it. It's interesting that she doesn't like Deena being so naive and a "puppet." Beyonce actually fought to make her more manipulative, but the problem is in the initial writing of the character. Deena is written as more of a pawn than an instigator of her fate.

I also like that Mary's acknowledging that she COULDN'T have an unbiased opinion of Dreamgirls. She started crying right at the very beginning of the movie... because it took her "back to the day."

I think that's pretty cool.

Updated On: 12/13/06 at 10:38 AM

[Kringas]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 10:55am

I do think Deena was given a little more shading in film, but I do agree that role is written more as a pawn than anything else. All of the girls really are, in one way or another.

What great perspective Wilson has.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 10:57am

Yeah, but I'm still kinda laughing about her Deena comment: "She's not the over-the-top, backstabbing diva that people might expect."

Meaning what, Mary? She's really not "Diana" after all?

[Mischief]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 11:15am

Wilson wishes that Dreamgirls acknowledged the debt owed to The Supremes. "Not giving you credit — that hurts. But I am the kind of person who can rise above that."

Wilson is one classy lady.

Take that *Miss Self-Indulgent Self-Absorbed Nonprofessional*


Updated On: 12/13/06 at 11:15 AM

[Mischief]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 11:16am

Double post

Updated On: 12/13/06 at 11:16 AM

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 11:25am

The inspiration of Deena Jones is most definitely Diana Ross, but that's where the connection ends.

Diana Ross was a calculating and manipulative little monster, even before she was officially made the lead singer of The Supremes. Deena is far from this.

[Mischief]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 11:32am

*Miss Ross* to you, BrodyFosse!
Updated On: 12/13/06 at 11:32 AM

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 11:32am

Great interview.
By the way, not to thread jack, but BrodyFosse shouldn't your signature quote be attributed to Robert Browning?

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 11:42am

Yes'm, SueleenGay...but I prefer it the way Bob Fosse applied it.

Now I can't get that damn Sueleen Gay "Never Gonna Get" song outta my fu*kin' head!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/13/06 at 12:50pm

Mary is a classy lady, considering that part of Effie's story is also hers. Some of the early songs were written with Mary's voice in mind, but were handed to Diana. It must have been hard on her having to sing backup when the composer had said he wrote it with her voice in mind.