There's no song in its heart Jan 18, 2008
There's Bertha Mae and her much younger husband (Vondie Curtis-Hall), a pair of rival field hands (Eric L. Abrams and Sean Patrick Thomas), Maceo's hefty love interest (Davenia McFadden), and Delilah's employer, the mayor's discreet drunk of a wife (Mary Steenburgen). The aim is a Dickensian richness of human portraiture; the effect is clutter. (Boston Globe)
Moving from magic to realism Jul 15, 2007
The cast also includes Martin Sheen, Cedric the Entertainer, Lemmons 's husband, Vondie Curtis-Hall , and Taraji P. Henson. Born in Missouri and raised partly in the Boston area, Lemmons didn't know a lot about Greene until she read the script. (Boston Globe -- Living)
See 'Talk to Me' Jul 14, 2007
As an actor-turned-director, it's predictable that Lemmons pulls together an all-aces group performance, including Vondie Curtis-Hall (Lemmons' real-life husband) as the courtly and borderline-corny Sunny Jim, and Cedric the Entertainer as the uproariously low-toned Nighthawk, who makes female listeners think he's a lover with a romantically slow rhythm. What's remarkable is that Lemmons brews a stirring atmosphere out of grit and flamboyance: big hair and jumpsuits as well as hair-trigger... (SunSpot.net)
'Talk to Me' shows the power of words Jul 13, 2007
Other characters, such as Greene's flamboyant girlfriend Vernell (Taraji P. Henson) and station owner E.G. Sonderling (Martin Sheen), are appealing but one-note, though Cedric the Entertainer and Vondie Curtis-Hall make funny, note-perfect appearances as the velvet-voiced, "quiet storm" late night DJ, Nighthawk, and the ousted chipper morning-show guy, Sunny Jim, respectively. But this is a love story, after all, so it makes sense that the others would recede indistinctly into the background. (Los Angeles Times)
NORM: Drummer holds Stardust memories Mar 12, 2007
At N9ne Steakhouse in the Palms on Saturday: Pete Rose, Goldberg, former boxing star Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, Vondie Curtis-Hall of the original "Dreamgirls" cast on Broadway, NFL star Adam Archuleta and entertainer Frankie Scinta. Former NFL quarterback Doug Flutie, hanging out backstage at the Fremont Street Experience with Artimus Pyle from Lynyrd Skynyrd and other members of Deep South, Jimmy Hall, Robert Nix, Chris Hicks and Hal McCormack. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Nevada News)
Brosnan to turn Wise novel into film Jan 18, 2007
Pic will be scripted and directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall. Brosnan and Irish DreamTime partner Beau St. Clair will produce along with MMP's Phil Maloof and Andrew Jameson. (Variety)
