1/5/2024 0 Comments Sparkle 1976 cast now![]() It was the title song from Adrian Lyne’s film Flashdance, and it occupied the No 1 slot on Billboard’s Hot 100 for six weeks while topping numerous other charts around the world. Oscar night, 1984, found Cara back in the spotlight, basking in the glow of her huge success with Flashdance … What a Feeling. Fame took the best original song statuette on the night. The actor John Leguizamo tweeted: “She made me believe that if you were Latin you could make it! She fuelled my community.”īoth Fame and another single from the film soundtrack, Out Here on My Own (a Top 20 US hit), were nominated for Oscars, and since both were sung by Cara she achieved the rare feat of singing more than one song at an Academy Awards ceremony. ![]() ![]() Cara also became an inspiration for other Latin artists. The song’s pumping, anthemic tune and ecstatic lyric made it the perfect embodiment of every wannabe star’s ambitions – “I’m gonna live forever, I’m gonna learn how to fly … I’m gonna make it to heaven, Light up the sky like a flame.” Its aspirational influence reached down the years through a string of talent shows such as American Idol, Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor. And Sparkle as a solo act (with backup singers, a gospel choir and a full pit orchestra) brings down the house.Irene Cara performing in New York in 1984. "Sister and Her Sisters," the original trio, come across as a gifted American Idol version of Diana Ross and the Supremes, which I think is the idea. The basic purpose of the film is to fit the story into wall-to-wall music, and it does that with style and energy. I won't say more about Satin, except that the character inspires a prison sentence that is treated by the film with curious superficiality. The most electrifying scenes involve the destructive comedian Satin, a local celebrity, who finds Sister in love with the sincere young man Levi ( Omari Hardwick), humiliates him, sweeps her up, gives her a diamond and in what seems like days is knocking her around and has her addicted to cocaine. ![]() The screenplay by Mara Brock Akil, inspired by Joel Schumacher's original for the (lesser) 1976 movie "Sparkle," follows well-worn showbiz patterns as the girls go from rags to riches to tragedy to comeback. We are meant to believe these early steps in their career were made possible when they sneaked out of their bedroom windows at night apparently Emma had no hint of their subterfuge. That comes after the three girls have taken the first steps in a musical career masterminded by a nice guy named Stix ( Derek Luke), who meets Sparkle at church, falls in love, and produces their first shows. Carmen Ejogo, who you may recall as Thomas Jefferson's lover in the TV series "Sally Hemmings," steals the film not only in her sultry singing numbers but in her violent marriage to a snaky, evil comedian named Satin ( Mike Epps). ![]() She lives and breathes music and fills notebooks with her songs but doesn't have the courage to face the spotlight as the movie opens she's backstage urging Sister to solo, which Sister, after a show of reluctance, does - sensationally. The shy sweetheart is Sparkle, played by the perfectly named American Idol winner Jordin Sparks. The most serious is college student Dee ( Tika Sumpter), apparently the first woman they've ever seen who wears an Afro. The most fragrant flower in the bouquet is slinky, sexy Sister ( Carmen Ejogo). ![]()
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