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YES. I don't know how she's doing now, but a few years back, she kind of lost it. She walked off of a new Broadway play called The Violet Hour at intermission during a preview, and her understudy who I knew at the time ended up taking over the role for the rest of the run. I hope she's okay, I'm not sure if the problem was mental or physical. Come to think of it, I did see her on Nick@Nite when they picked up A Different World...

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JG's been recurring on The Vampire Diaries this season, which, normally, I would LOVE because I love JG and I love the show, but she's playing the grandmother of a 17-year-old. Granted, her character is a witch, but they've made no mention of whether or not she uses her powers to look "young." Honestly, she looks much older than she is.

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Oh wow, thanks, but yeah, a grandmother? Not that it's impossible, but it's funny to me how she seems to have entirely skipped the period of her career as mother and went straight to grandmother. I do agree that she has aged, stress and illness most likely. I think she is THE pick for Tina Knowles when they inevitably do a Beyonce biopic. :P

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I think a lot of the reaction to this guy is colorism but that doesn't mean I don't think it won't be an epic failure. He looks younger than Lily's HUSBAND and this is not a story point. And Malcolm was all abs and handsome (until he started fighting lions and Shemar decided to be an ack-tour) and DM is most decidedly not.

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That were fake! :lol:

I agree that colorism is part of the equation here, I mean, I too have taken issue with that in the past when black characters have been recast. But I think it's a matter of bone structure, and then the age that are really all up under people's craws. Say what you want about how the character developed, but when you create and cast a character on hunk factor and a career is born, how do you expect loyal fans who "remember when" to react to a less than comparable recast? If you can't get a Boris Kodjoe or someone similar who has that same kind of black female fan reaction, you either have to hit it out of the park with an unknown (the *next* Shemar or whatever) or seriously consider if you want to go forward with bringing back the character.

And someone was talking about Lawrence Saint-Victor as Malcolm, what kind of sense does THAT make!?

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Some of it is but most of it's about TPTB purposefully casting an actor that can & will be marginalized in the minds of the audience.

If TPTB had cast actors like Lamman or Mykel Jenkins there would be MUCH less chance of that happening but Malcolm's another agenda driven character so that will NEVER happen.

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Lamann Rucker is dark and he's a lot of people's top choice. He'd definitely be my top choice! I don't think colorism has anything to do with it honestly. To be frank....he isn't attractive AT ALL. It doesn't mean that no dark skinned guys are attractive, but he is not. He has no charisma or sex appeal. He's totally wrong for the part.

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It ain't colorism for me. He just looks like a slob. And I mean, come on, it's Eddie Winslow.

On some metatextual level, yeah, I think you can say it's marginalizing Malcolm, whether deliberately or accidentally. The character goes from one of the most visible symbols of African-American virility and sexuality of the '90s to this fool.

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