What a long career! May she RIP:
Cicely Tyson Dead: ‘Roots,’ ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ Actress Dies | TVLine
What a long career! May she RIP:
Cicely Tyson Dead: ‘Roots,’ ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ Actress Dies | TVLine
She certainly did a lot.
The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
I remember as a child watching "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" and tearing up when she drank from the white fountain. Or her running to her newly freed from prison husband in "Sounder". So good. Goodbye, Cicely.
Great actress. RIP.
Saw a news item about this. It said she was "Born the daughter of of Caribbean immigrants. Cicely grew up in a devoutly religious household in Harlem". Then I remembered a passage from Miles Davis's autobiography, as the two were once married. Then I found it:
I wonder what religion considers that kinda shit devout behavior."Things started to get really bad with Cicely over an incident with a woman, a white woman, who was just a friend of mine. I had met her one day in the elevator of the building where Cicely and I lived on Fifth Avenue and 79th Street. It was in 1984, and I was on crutches from my hip operation. We just start talking and became friends. That was it. I would say hello and stop to talk with her whenever I saw her. Gradually Cicely grew jealous of her. Finally one day she jumped the woman in broad daylight and beat her up. The woman had her seven-year-old son with her. Cicely thought I was going with the woman; she had convinced herself I was, But I wasn't."
"Secrets in the sauce."....From the movie Fried Green Tomatoes.
You going to believe everything someone writes in their autobiography?
Besides being a musician of genius, as someone actually married to Tyson Miles always told the truth, although he did it in expletive laced street language. One of his most admirable qualities was he never cared whose ox was gored, regardless of sex or race.
Her role as Sipsey in Fried Green Tomatoes and as Constantine in The Help are my two favorite roles of hers...