The Mother of Black Hollywood
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COURTESY OF DAVID ZIPPEL AND JOANNE ZIPPEL
Bipolar, Bath & Beyond at Los Angeles LGBT Center.
COURTESY OF AMY ROSENBERG
COURTESY OF ALAN MERCER
At the Dreamgirls workshop with Michael Bennett.
Madge and me in El Bravo.
My first “Pip,” Cousin Ronnie.
At Don’t Tell Mama performing How I Spent My Summer Vacation.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MARIA PERATEAU
In my first movie, Beaches.
With my dear Whoopi Goldberg.
Peacocking in my backyard.
PHOTOGRAPH BY CAMRIN WILLIAMS
High-kicking in From Billie to Lena with Jenifer with pianist Keith Thompson.
Backstage with the Rockettes at a benefit for AIDS Project Los Angeles.
Gorgeous, yes. But this is what depression looks like.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF ALIA
On the road with music director Lon Hoyt. (I swear, I didn’t touch him.)
Coco from Jackie’s Back!
COURTESY OF AMY ROSENBERG
RuPaul backstage after my one-woman show.
DJ Pierce as “Shangela,” and he’s my baby boy!
“In These Streets” video with Roz Ryan and Brandy.
COURTESY OF MARK MANN
At Christmastime, with my beautiful daughter, Charmaine.
Me and Marc Shaiman getting into trouble.
With Mark Alton Brown and Bobby Cesario, best friends since college.
Standing among three of the most powerful people on earth.
With Bette Midler, at the Hello Dolly! opening-night party.
At dinner with the masterful Sidney Poitier.
At the premiere for The Preacher’s Wife, with Penny Marshall, Whitney Houston, Loretta Devine, and Denzel Washington.
Partying with the Great One herself, Meryl Streep.
At the Oscars with Tyler Perry.
One of my many daughters, the amazing Taraji P. Henson.
Fun times with Jennifer Aniston.
All grown up—Thank God!
COURTESY OF BRYAN TAYLOR JOHNSON / WWW.BRYANTAYLORJOHNSON.COM
A whale shark . . . WTF?!
Standing with wrestlers in Mongolia.
Among many beautiful young fans in Ngorongoro, Tanzania.
Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Tracee Ellis Ross, and black-ish creator Kenya Barris, with “Ruby.”
Black Lives Matter.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JENIFER LEWIS (deemed a “national treasure” by TV Guide.com) has appeared in more than three hundred television and film roles. She currently stars on the hit ABC show black-ish. She lives in Los Angeles with her bichon frise, Butters Lewis, and has a drag queen named Shangela living in her basement.
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COPYRIGHT
THE MOTHER OF BLACK HOLLYWOOD. Copyright © 2017 by Jenifer Lewis. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint from the following:
“Incident,” by Countee Cullen. Originally printed in Color. Courtesy of Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, LA.
“Climb Every Mountain,” by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Lyric reprint courtesy of Imagen Creative Services.
“Love Goddess,” written by Marc Shaiman. Courtesy of Marc Shaiman.
“Pussy Bone,” written by Marc Shaiman. Courtesy of Marc Shaiman.
FIRST EDITION
Cover design by James Iacobelli
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Frontispiece by Maarten de Boer
All photographs courtesy of the author unless otherwise indicated.
Digital Edition NOVEMBER 2017 ISBN: 978-0-06-241042-9
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-241040-5
ISBN 978-0-06-283919-0 (B&N Signed Edition)
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