![]() So the decision to remake the film with just about the same approach (the only real change is that the time period moves up 10 years in the remake to 1968 and changes the locale from Harlem to Detroit) is a bit of a head-scratcher. There were also memorable tunes penned by R&B wunderkind Curtis Mayfield that the castwhich included Irene Cara as the sweet innocent of the titlebelted.īut in the three decades since, the once-fresh source material has become, thanks to the Broadway blockbuster Dreamgirls and its more recent musical movie incarnation, all too familiar. Melodramatic and filled with archetypes rather than flesh-and-blood characters, the movie nevertheless was very entertaining thanks to tremendous performances by Lonette McKee as the hotly talented bad girl Sister and Dorian Harewood as her physically abusive boyfriend. Set in the 1950s, the movie borrowed liberally from the real-life story of the Motown superstars the Supremes and other girl groups from that era. When director Sam O'Steen's backstage musical, Sparkle, appeared in 1976 it had a certain freshness going for it. This article shared 3773 times since Thu Aug 16, 2012
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