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Bookmark or Share- Cicely Tyson 'Just As I Am' Book Club Thread | Lipstick AlleyMs. Tyson is as revelatory on these pages as she has been on the stage." -- — Viola Davis, Academy, Tony, and Emmy award-winning actress and producer The late great Cicely Tyson released her memoir on Monday January 26th and I was wondering if anybody has ordered their copy or already has theirs. Mine is getting shipped tomorrow.
- WOW Throwback photo of Cicely Tyson and James Earl JonesJust beautiful and black excellence Cecily Tyson and James Earl Jones in “The Blacks,” a play also co-starring Roscoe Lee Browne, Godfrey Cambridge, Maya Angelou, Billy Dee Williams, and other Black luminaries, 1961.
- Cicely Tyson was Hypocritical - Lipstick AlleyCicely Tyson was mad because Superfly was kicking the dog out of Sounder at the box office. Sounder brought in 16 million while Superfly brought in nearly twice that at 30. Cicely Tyson joined ranks with the NAACP by saying that Superfly "romanticized drug dealing and pimping and was a bad influence on the Black youth."
- Cicely Tyson had a daughter when she was 17?? - Lipstick AlleyWell actually there may be a chance if the daughter is on the 1950 census with Cicely’s mother. Unfortunately that census won’t be available for public viewing until next year. Edited: I just looked up Cicely Tyson (b.1924) out of Harlem and one of the first records that came up was a marriage in 1942. She was married to Kenneth Franklin.
- Melissa Gilbert said Queen Cicely Tyson was very difficultTyson spoke to the Sun Sentinelabout her role on Sweet Justice. “Attorneys abound on TV, but few females on a series have actually headed a law firm,” she said. What Melissa Gilbert said about working with Cicely Tyson Although Sweet Justice was short-lived, Gilbert described her experience with Tyson in her book, Prairie Tale.
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