Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.” Marlon Wayans says it’s time for a sequel to “White Chicks.” In the 2004 comedy, he and his brother Shawn Wayans star as FBI agents who …
. Wayans says when he read the script he insisted on flying to Atlanta to meet directorinstead of jumping on Skype as his agents had suggested. “I said, ‘No, I’m not going to Skype. I’m getting on a plane tomorrow. I’m going to fly to Atlanta and I want to meet face-to-face and talk about the character,’” he recalls. “And I did that.
Wayans says he tried unsuccessfully to get in touch with White. “There’d be a lot of questions I’d ask if I’d have the chance,” Wayans says. Chief among them is he’d like him to explain his intentions — did White want Franklin to succeed or did he want to hold her back, and does he have any awareness of the abuse he inflicted on the late singer?
Wayans got goosebumps every time he watched Hudson sing during the shoot. “She worked 10 times harder than everybody on that set,” he says. He also recalls the one time he met Franklin at an awards show. “I said, ‘Hi, Ms. Franklin,’ and she goes, ‘How’s your family?’” Wayans remembers. “I was like, ‘You know me?’ She said, ‘I know who you are. I know all your family. You tell that Damon I said hello.
is opening a gay bar in WeHo in the space previously occupied by Gold Coast, a watering hole that closed in September after almost 40 years. In a nod to the former occupant, the new endeavor will be called Or Bar . The opening isn’t slated for at least another six months. “We don’t want gay bars to become obsolete,” Kotsiopoulos says. “We’re passionate about making sure we still have safe places for the community.
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