Lady Sings the Blues
Diana Ross - Billie Holiday
The actress who paved the way for future dope fiends, Miss Diana Ross gave everybody featured on this page somebody to look up to when it came to playing a drug addict in a movie. I haven't seen this movie in a minute so I don't remember any quotes, but I do remember Miss Diana wrapping that rubber around her arm so she could shoot up.
Classic performance, Diana...Classic. *applause*
New Jack City
Chris Rock - Pookie
Memorable Line(s): "That shit just be calling me man..."
Before the money, before the nice looking suits, there was the actor who made been a crackhead in a film famous. From the white powdery lips to the classic crackhead lines...the person today's awards are named after. Pookie a.k.a Chris Rock. It's the role most black people remember him in. The role that sky-rocketed his career. Pookie...
There would be no New Jack City without Pookie. *applause*
The Five Heartbeats
Michael Wright - Eddie Kane
Memorable "Pookie-Like" Line(s):"Nights like this IIIII wish...that raindrops would fa-ha-ha-ha-hallll..."
"I told ha', I don't need an ashtray, the whole world is an ashtray."
Old Eddie Kane, Jr.. Wasn't he your favorite character in Five Heartbeats? For real, who can forget when he showed up with his old silver costume on after the new heartbeats concert and started singing all off key? "I still got it!"
Jungle Fever
Samuel Jackson - Gator
Halle Berry - Crackhead 2
"I'm a cr-cr-cr-cr-crack-head!"
Samuel Jackson a.k.a Gata' had his crackhead steps down didn't he? This original crackhead performance featured not only dancing, but jokes as well. I own this DVD (like most of the movies featured here) and I just skip through it so I can see Samuel Jackson's parts.
Dead Presidents
Chris Tucker - Skip
Memorable "Pookie-Like" Line(s):"Something got in me over there man."
Remember when Larenz Tate returned from the war and Skip was sitting there on that stool doped up? How do you get doped up and go sit outside? Isn't that something you want to have all to yourself in the comfort of your home? The most memorable part was when they came busting into his apartment to arrest him and he was watching Al Green on Soul Train--well, not watching it since he was dead..but you get my drift. His eyes were all glazed over. See why you can't give a dope fiend too much money at once? What else are they going to buy besides drugs? Come on man. You think they're gonna take that money and get some help? Na...Na...
Sparkle
Lonnette McKee - Sister
"Your sister can't fly on one wing."
Sister had a R&B career in front of her, and instead she chooses to be with a pimp who smacks his current woman upside the head and takes the fur coat off her back to give to Sister. That's all she needs to see to know she wants to be his new girl. *LOL* No wonder she turned to drugs. That 10 minute song she sang about loving that man made me want to go shoot up myself.
Sugar Hill
Khandi Alexander - Momma/Ella Skuggs
Why Do Fools Fall In Love
Larenz Tate - Frankie Lymon
Losing Isaiah
Halle Berry - Khaila Richards