The funny and beautiful Tracee Ellis Ross AKA Joan Clayton from the hit TV show Girl Friends, and current star of the new BET show, Reed Between The Lines was on the Wendy Williams show recently. Wearing ridiculously high 7 inch shoes she bought at Barneys which she called, “Wendy Shoes” that looked more like art work ready for a close up onWendy’s shoe cam, she came across as a well put together young lady. I guess she has no choice being the daughter of Miss Diana Ross.
As usual she looked really good with her nice figure, and her lovely hair in beautiful bouncy ringlets courtesy of her stylist, Chukie “Love” Amos which was inspired by the picture of a lingerie model she saw. I never could decide who is more beautiful or whose personality I could identify more with, Joan's or Toni's, as I loved both of them in Girlfriends and think they are both gorgeous. I'm not the only one who thinks she's gorgeous, even Wendy commented on her looks and even her butt. I think Wendy was really reciprocating Tracee's complementing gestures, because Tracee started out saying how beautiful Wendy is, probably so she wouldn't be so hard on her.
She also said referring to her mother’s clothes, “I love, adore, I’m obsessed with and love everything from my mother. She said she was in College at Brown University when she called home and learned that her mother was getting rid of some clothes and made it a rule that no clothes get tossed till she approves its “tossability.” That must be nice being the same size as your mother and the only daughter that cares about clothes so much, so you can “vintage shop” in your mother’s closet. I’m so jealous!
Although she didn't share about her love life, she had quite a lot to say about the business, including the good news is that she’s a producer on the new show with Malcolm Jamal Warner, who she said is a great guy and they share a similar vision. She also said, “I’m so glad Television is showing a man like Malcolm Jamal Warner,” who she says is like a brother to her. I love women of color having power over the images of us in the media, so hearing she’s a producer, which any actress would be wise to be, is such good news. Also, this is to Malcolm Jamal Warner, please keep doing what you're doing to get women to talk so positively of you.
She also talked about the possibility of the Girlfriends movie. Unlike what many people believe that it's all about race. Movie production is really all about money. The color Hollywood loves isn't black or white. Hollywood loves "green," and if people want to see the Girlfriends movie, "the fans have got to ask for it" and when it is made, they must go out and see it to pay for it and encourage other movies like that to be made.
I would love the Girlfriends movie because I want to see how things pan out for the four brown beauties on the show including Joan getting married, Toni and Joan finding their friendship again, Toni and her husband co-parenting their child and it would be great if they could get her mother to play Joan Clayton’s mom in the movie. I doubt if that could happen because I do believe she was asked to play her mom in the TV series and she declined. As Tracee put it once, "My mama has five kids!"
However, I won’t hold my breath on it because we can only dream for now. As you know, unlike other shows like Sex and the City that have a lot of money behind them, black TV shows wanting to transition to movies don’t automatically get green lit because they don’t have unlimited funds to tap into. However, money isn't everything and if people express a demand for it, it will be done.
So people, if you want to see the movie, let us get the conversation going about the Girlfriends movie and maybe some investors will be convinced to back it and we'll have ourselves a movie…
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