News about Alice Walker

Actress Barbara O. Jones died Tuesday at the age of 82 at her home in Dayton, Ohio, according to her brother Raymond Minor. Minor confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter the passing of his sibling, who the outlet called a 'part of the L.A. Rebellion film movement of the 1970s' with appearances in a series of culturally-relevant motion pictures of the time.

After the queer romance storyline was erased, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor took a shot at her own film The Colour Purple. In the 2023 version of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the San Francisco-born actor, 54, who is bisexual, played Mama. The Color Purple is a book about Black lesbians.' If the choice was made to focus on that or not in the film iterations of The Color Purple, the King Richard actor said in a Buzzfeed interview.

Danielle Brooks is up for nomination for her barnstorming appearance in The Color Purple, in which she plays Sofia, as confident and defiant as her victimized friend Celie (Fantasia Barrino) is timid. The Color Purple, like last week's, is a screen musical based on a stage musical based on a book. That brings it about as far as possible from Alice Walker's acclaimed but turgid 1982 book about a young African-American woman in early twentieth-century Georgia and the redemptive power of female love. The songs and vivacious dance routines aren't always a natural fit for a story that, among other things, is about incest and domestic violence. However, perhaps that was never so.

The Color Purple, which was announced on Monday, has received rave reviews and is largely positive. The musical drama, directed by Blitz Bazawule, is both a revival of the Broadway production and a recreation of Steven Spielberg's 1985 film of the same name, which was based on Alice Walker's acclaimed 1982 book of the same name. Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Jon Batiste, David Alan Grier, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Louis Gossett Jr. are among the notables in the film, as well as others.