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Rain: Review on Donna Summer's daughter's feature film debut |
Written by Kam Williams |
Monday, 23 May 2011 01:49 |
Cleo Virginia “VC” Andrews (1923-1986) is a best-selling novelist known for sweeping, intergenerational sagas revolving around shocking family revelations. Her first eight books were so successful, that after her demise her estate hired a prolific ghostwriter, Andrew Neiderman, to continue publishing under her name, and he has gone on to pen far more than Ms. Andrews herself. Rain, based on the first installment of what is known as the Hudson series, is about an orphan (Brooklyn Sudano) who was raised in the ‘hood by a woman (Khandi Alexander) she erroneously presumed to be her mother. Truth be told, the gifted child prodigy was really the product of a taboo liaison between a rich, white debutante (LeeAnn Locken) and an unidentified black boy from the other side of the tracks.
Good (2 stars) The DVD is available on www.amazon.com or. ca or www.barnesandnoble.com About the author of this this review: Kam Williams is a syndicated film and book critic who writes for 100+ publications around the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, Canada, and the Caribbean. He is a member of the New York Film Critics Online, the NAACP Image Awards Nominating Committee, and Rotten Tomatoes. He is a contributor to TheLoop21.com, eurweb.com and so on. He is also a columnist for www.afrotoronto.com and www.megadiversities.com. Some of Kam Williams' articles are translated into Chinese. In 2008, he was Voted Most Outstanding Journalist of the Decade by the Disilgold Soul Literary Review. Williams is an erudite Attorney who holds a BA in Black Studies from Cornell University, an MA in English from Brown University, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, and a J.D. from Boston University. Kam Williams is a member of the Bar in NJ, NY, CT, PA, MA & US Supreme Court bars. He lives in Princeton, (New Jersey) with his wife and son. Kam Williams can be reached at
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