platformlaunchaction.blogspot.com - 1/17/2008
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Down in Atlanta, Yaya Decosta of "America's Next Top Model" was seen at the screening of " Honeydripper " which celebrated Hands on Atlanta and the Martin Luther King Jr Summit. At the event Yaya pose for pictures with her "Honeydripper" costars Danny Glover, director John Sayles and Charles Dutton. Yaya has also appeared in the 2006 film, " Take The Lead " alongside Antonio Banderas and ...
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GreenCine Daily
Honeydripper 's "uncommon pleasures derive not from any comprehensively created world but from its cast - mostly African-American veterans of the Broadway stage, of productions of August Wilson plays in particular - and [John] Sayles 's graceful way of handling them," writes Jonathan Rosenbaum in the Chicago Reader . "[Danny] Glover 's as hard-rock reliable as Spencer Tracy in his prime, ...
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Oh No They Didn't!
1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant's, the rival joint across the way. After laying off ...
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