Did anybody watch Disappearing Acts?

[PrettySqueaky]

Just wondering if anybody watched Disappearing Acts? I read the book about four or five years ago. It did the book justice (unlike waiting to exhale.)

My question is this...is there anybody out there that could see themselves in Zora's place? I don't know if I could do it for that long. I'm saying I'm willing to be supportive and stick by my man. But dang I don't think I could be as strong as her, not for such a long period of time.

[Lady_Tenor]

Excuse my ignorance, but I didn't know Disappearing Acts was a movie! Was it on TV, or on video, or in the theaters, or what?

Please let me know. I'd like to see it.

[ZetaAce]

Lady_Tenor- Dissapearing Acts was on HBO this past weekend. If you have HBO don't worry, they will reshow it 100 times!!

Here is my opinion of the movie, that I posted in the Zeta forum:

The soundtrack to the movie was pretty tight, but honestly I didn't like the movie. Wesley Snipes as Franklin? I didn't feel that at all. I liked Sanaa Lathan as Zora, but I thought the movie as a whole didn't accurately project the emotion and struggles of the book. I guess I shouldn't expect too much from a 2 hour tv movie, but I honestly I expect more from HBO. They have some great shows (The Corner, Sex and the City, Oz, Sopranos) and I had high hopes for it. I generally don't like books that are made from movies anyway.
I certainly hope they don't make Mama in to a movie. That was my favorite Terry McMillan book.

ZetaAce


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[MIDWESTDIVA]

I didn't see it, but I am enjoying reading everyone else's assessment of the movie. I'm too cheap to get cable. LOL. Besides that, I'm not really a big fan of Terry McMillan (sp?).

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[SoloRHO]

Sisterfriend ZetaAce
I thought the same thing: the music was hot! I particularly like the older cuts (stuff i was brought up on)
And as far as "Mama" being made into a movie, Terri once said in an interview that she would never let anyone touch that book. She said it's too personal for her.

[PrettySqueaky]

Originally posted by ZetaAce:

I certainly hope they don't make Mama in to a movie. That was my favorite Terry McMillan book.

ZetaAce

I love Mama too. But don't you think it's too controversial to be made into a movie. I need to read that book again. I haven't read it in a couple of years. What happened at the end of that book? Actually can anyone refresh my memory. Wasn't it a book about coming of age, while having a strong black mother. The only thing I can remember is that someone was a ho and someone got molested.

[Lady_Tenor]

LOL ZetaAce...you are certainly right about HBO replaying movies hundreds of times! Thanks also for the rundown on the movie...I hate it when movies ruin the books. I will have to see the movie and compare the two on my own.

Please refresh my memory...who is Sanaa Lathan? Is she the girl in The Best Man and Love and Basketball?

Pretty Squeaky...Mama is certainly a book that should be read more than once. It has so many interesting points and topics throughout, that every time I read the book again I pick up on something else!

At any rate, I will catch Disappearing Acts on HBO and see if my opinion is the same as ZetaAce's!

[ZetaAce]

PrettySqueaky- If they can make Silence of the Lambs into a movie, they can make anything! I hope they don't make it a movie, because they will probably butcher it the same way they did her other books (i.e. Waiting to Exhale, How Stella..., AND Dissapearing acts).

Mama is definitely a book about coming of age. Yes, the mother was a prosititute at one point and the eldest daughter was raped by a neighbor. The mother also got married several times in the book, You should read it again I am glad I have that book on my shelf.

CK

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[PrettySqueaky]

Originally posted by ZetaAce:
I am glad I have that book on my shelf.

Someone stole mine from out of my locker in high school. And I live in the country we don't have that many bookstores anyway I asked them to order it for me. But it's on back order.

But speaking of books on a shelf have you ever heard of Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim? I'm not a big fan of Iceberg it takes him eight days to say he crossed the street. I haven't finished his books. But I can read Donald Goines in less than a hour. They're ghetto as hell and I love them.

[SoloRHO]

Pretty Squeaky,
It's interesting you brought up Donald Goines. My closest friends are Icegerg Slim and Donald Goines fanatics. And they have me wanting to read his work. But its my understanding that their the same person. They say that Donald Goines used the name "Iceberg Slim" as a pen name while he was in jail... something about he wouldnt be able to keep the profits or something dealing with the politics of prison. I dunno. Anyway, they say when he got our of jail, he started righting under hs real name. That's why in the back of his books, there's a listing of his other work AND "Icegerg Slim's" work... and vice-versa with "Iceberg Slim's" books. They're supposedly one and the same person.
But Im definately gonna take a look at his work.

[This message has been edited by SoloRHO (edited December 14, 2000).]

[PrettySqueaky]

Originally posted by SoloRHO:
Pretty Squeaky,
It's interesting you brought up Donald Goines. My closest friends are Icegerg Slim and Donald Goines fanatics. And they have me wanting to read his work. But its my understanding that their the same person. They say that Donald Goines used the name "Iceberg Slim" as a pen name while he was in jail... something about he wouldnt be able to keep the profits or something dealing with the politics of prison. I dunno. Anyway, they say when he got our of jail, he started righting under hs real name. That's why in the back of his books, there's a listing of his other work AND "Icegerg Slim's" work... and vice-versa with "Iceberg Slim's" books. They're supposedly one and the same person.
But Im definately gonna take a look at his work.

[This message has been edited by SoloRHO (edited December 14, 2000).]

Nope they're not the same person. Now Iceberg Slim autobiographical work (to some degree) is Pimp. But the reason why Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim are listed together is because when Slim was locked up he started reading Goines books and they inspired him to write his own.

Now they say that Goines was murdered because of his books. Some kind of conspiracy or something. Anyway he had one work that wasn't completed and Slim finished it. Now don't quote me on all this...I saw this somewhere on the net. I'm saying they were supposed to turn one of his books into a movie starring DMX I forgot which one. But they were getting a lot of flack with that. So I don't know how accurate this website is. But that's what the site said.

But what I do know is that in one of Goines books (I wish I had it with me so I could tell you.) it tells how Goines was murdered before he completed the book.

But please definetly check out Goines first. I suggest whoreson. Yo the book is real. It's the first Goines book I read and it had me hooked.

And yeah Goines was murdered before for Pimp came out. So who knows. All I know is that I love them.

[SoloRHO]

PrettySqueeky,
I'll DEFINATELY start with your suggestion. I know someone over here has a copy of that one!
Peace
SoloRHO

PS, I'll take your word on that Donald Goines situation. My friends have a way of "ciphering" their own conclusions about many things... like they're Inspector Gadget's crew.

[PrettySqueaky]

Originally posted by SoloRHO:
PrettySqueeky,
I'll DEFINATELY start with your suggestion. I know someone over here has a copy of that one!
Peace
SoloRHO

PS, I'll take your word on that Donald Goines situation. My friends have a way of "ciphering" their own conclusions about many things... like they're Inspector Gadget's crew.

Read the first chapter of Whoreson and tell me if you could put that book down after that.

And Inspector Gadget's...I know a lot of them and some dingy as Kaptain Kangaroo's too.

But yeah don't quote me on that info but Donald Goines writing is totally different from Slimm's. Slim is dry as dirt to me. I'm saying they okay if you never read Goines but they are of no comparison at all.