But then he betrayed her.".
They were so close that they all bought houses on the same street - Buena Vista Avenue, Detroit.".
Tho they do look a little ghetto...they don't look poor...they just look hopeless. He hurt her physically and he hurt her emotionally. And what woman's heart wouldn't melt? One of his friends asked Flo to take a ride with him and she went because he was her brother's friend, so she trusted him. They don't even realize why they are stuck in their position. So not only does their mother die, their father eventually passes on as well at a young age.
She said, "I feel like I am on top of the world, I am so happy.
Maxine, though, knows otherwise, recalling phone conversations with Ross or Wilson that "would end with Flo cursing and slamming down the phone because she was so angry.".
In the film, Flo is portrayed as Effie (Jennifer Hudson in the film), who first hits trouble when her weight runs out of control, and her behaviour becomes erratic.
Some of Flo's disenchantment can be readily explained. I can clearly see why they are where they are. She felt that they should have stood up for her more and she was angry.".
"But she got to be a pain in the ass and I said, "Oh, forget it." When you know better...you do better. But hell, good jobs don't really exist today unless you have a ton of degrees.
Flo hid deep-rooted demons and almost from the start there was an unspoken rivalry with Ross, who was always the most ambitious of the three.
Maxine says: "At the beginning, Flo thought Berry was a father figure and she trusted him. They were not taught to get up and get a damn job. The rows got worse and in 1967 Florence was sacked by the group she founded and replaced by rising star Cindy Birdsong from Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles. People generally like to paint Diana Ross as some kind of Disney witch, which always pees me right off. She maintained that all was well between her and the other girls and claimed that stories about hair-pulling fights with Ross were wrong. It could not have been easy being passed around by family members that did not teach them anything. US stocks jump with the Dow rising nearly 600 points and the S&P 500 rallying towards biggest weekly jump... At least 10 people are infected and 48 others have been forced to quarantine after a COVID-19 cluster is... How tragedy shaped man poised to be America's new president: After a life dogged by family trauma and... 'Chill Donald, chill! Somehow, she also found the time to win two degrees at the University of Detroit. I just read on SDF that one of the daughters had brain surgery several years ago and her son is disabled. And it is the tragedy of "Flo", the girl with the golden voice, but who was later fired from the group, that provides the real drama of Dreamgirls. (You must log in or sign up to reply here. For what the film doesn't show is that the real Florence Ballard died in poverty, aged 32, from an alcohol-related illness. The stardom and the wealth, when it came for the sensational girl group by now known as The Supremes, was extraordinary. As Florence's older sister knows only too well, the bust-up with The Supremes was traumatic and final.
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In public, Flo was keen to keep up appearances, where possible. Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by SITKOL'76, Oct 20, 2019. The names have been changed and the songs are new but it is clear from the title sequence onwards that this is the story of Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard - the original Supremes. If Diana had more private moments with Flo they didn't make her inspirational memoir which avoided almost anything personal about her years in the group outside of making the dig that Mary Wilson is no longer her friend. They didn't come to her rescue.".
How was the money appropriated? This sisterly spirit is a central theme to the film, yet in real life, as Maxine recalls, it was not long before tension and jealousy started to eat away at Flo and her relationships - in particular with Ross (played in Dreamgirls by Beyonce) and Gordy (played by James Foxx).
Then they were probably passed from one family member to the next. Welcome Guest. What is really sad is the girls made it their legacy "welfare". Hell if you watch Maury, Jerry,and Montell all day long you not get a red naked dime... and that is my IMO! Please Login or Register. For Flo and the others, it was the start of a dream that seemed almost impossible in Detroit, the great "Motor City", which by the Sixties was torn apart by racial division and poverty. The final phone call in early 76 was covered by the OP above. "If I'd known how it was going to end with Florence, maybe I would have taken more time with her, fought her more, even though she didn't want my help. If the film glosses over the true extent of Flo's misery, it is not the only inaccuracy. It would be nice if these young ladies' lives were better, got themselves educated and got a good job. Yet, as Dreamgirls shows, the story began with much promise among the tough Brewster-Douglass projects of Detroit. The few instances that we know about are covered in Mary’s books as well as J. Randy Taraborellis. I am very hard pressed to say what a person should or should not do in a situation such as Flo's daughters. With their spangly dresses, seductive charm and perfect pop, The Supremes became one of the greatest girl groups the world of music has ever produced. The blame is on them not anyone else... And they should be profiting from DG why!
I didn't want to be in the group but Flo, who knew that Mary Wilson and Diane Ross wanted to sing, asked them to join her and they became The Primettes. Flo did find true love, with Motown road manager Tommy Chapman whom she started dating in 1966.
It tells the story of how three teenage black girls escape the 'projects' or housing estates of riot-torn Detroit and forge a remarkable career with the Motown record label, clocking up ten No1 singles in just three years.
Not surprisingly, Ross's version of events is at odds with Maxine's. or debate this issue live on our message boards. The film seeks to explain this by revealing that Effie is pregnant. She eventually married Milton and they had five children. Didn't this scenario happened to David when his mother died, being bounced from one relative to another? Flo enjoyed social drinking as a teenager and hit the bottle hard when, early on, she was pushed out of the limelight by Ross. Hurry up already! How come the daughters did not go college. "She was just one of those people you want to grab and shake and yell, "Get your f***ing life together". "I think Flo would have loved the movie because it ends with her getting back with The Supremes," says Maxine. Not to mention, it did not sound like Flo & her husband had a stable life. ': Greta Thunberg takes a dig at Trump and tells him to work on his anger management in tweet - nearly a year after he told her to do exactly the same when she was named Time's Person of the Year, Mississippi parents file lawsuit after their third-grade daughter was forced to REMOVE her 'Jesus Loves Me' face mask during class, Piers Morgan says Trump is feeling 'bullish' about election, Former PM slams government over handling of possible deaths figures, Johnson scuttles out of House as May leads assault on lockdown plans, Police officers raid Leicestershire flat hosting huge party, Masked men jump man as he enters home in Brighton, Police show up at Brighton home after horrifying incident, Piers Morgan: 'Frankenstein has lost control of the monster', Excited dog 'tries to get its poodle friend to come out and play', Adorable moment panda cub tries to stop keeper from leaving, Coronavirus: Farage denies Trump wanted people to use 'bleach', China's bridge-building machine builds high-speed railway overpass, Former Corrie actress confronts Helen Whately over care homes.
They heard about their mother on welfare so now they want to follow that pattern now that is sad. Florence Glenda Chapman (née Ballard; June 30, 1943 – February 22, 1976) was an American singer, a founding member of the popular Motown vocal female group the Supremes.She sang on 16 top 40 singles with the group, including ten number-one hits. • Click here to watch a clip from the movie.
Maxine recalls: "We used to go to the Graystone Ballroom to dance. It's an incredibly moving performance which has earned Hudson an Oscar nomination. Maxine recalls: "We were sitting on the porch, in the projects, and Milton Jenkins, the manager of a boy group, The Primes, stopped his car, got out and told us he was looking for a girl group.
The film ends in true, sugar-coated Hollywood style: Effie rejoins the group, the differences are forgiven, and all is well. Click here to remove banner ads from this forum. I have a slightly different opinion altho I am not defending the daughters being on welfare. She would think about the other Supremes, start drinking and then cry. When she left The Supremes and the money stopped coming in, it really messed up her head.".
And she reveals for the first time that her sister had been raped as a teenager, an episode that blighted the rest of her life. Maxine recalls the terrible rows, the drinking and the chaos that eventually saw Florence sacked by her friends. The names have been changed and the songs are new but it is clear from the title sequence onwards that this is the story of Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard - the original Supremes. Jan 20, 2015 - 1982 press photo Florence Ballard Lurlee Supremes [Our Part Number: dfpx54603] You are bidding on a 1982 press photo of Florence Ballard Lurlee Supremes. Brandy this is not sad this is damn shame!! She never sang with them again. But her tawdry descent into poverty is arguably the most serious omission of all. But she reveals one terrible episode that may help explain the problems that cast such a dark shadow over her pop career: when Flo was 16, she was raped.
"I tried to help her put the rape behind her and get on with her life, but she was so hurt that she could never get over it.". I'm going to say this I'm sure they didn't choose to be on welfare nobody chooses to be on welfare they could very well be apart of the working poor.
She would say, "You are all too slow. "Diane was aggressive," explains Maxine.
The twins would be 48 years old and Lisa would be 45 years old. And even that does not guarantee a good job. There was plenty of fun to be had, in particular through music.
At least it gave some positive closure to the ladies relationship. "She wanted her life to end like that, to end up with The Supremes, where it all began.".
When Florence Ballard died of a heart attack in 1976, thousands attended the funeral, including Diana Ross. "She told me how hurt she was because she felt that Diane and Mary had turned their backs on her. He was right. Ross once said: "Florence was always on a totally negative trip. TV networks cut away from Trump as he tests the boundaries of American democracy by questioning the entire election with extraordinary speech that claims conspiracy against him by big tech, big money, the media, pollsters and Democrats, Biden pleads with America to 'be patient and calm' in wait for election results and says he has 'no doubt' that he has beaten Trump, Nevada gonna give you up! So when the new movie, Dreamgirls - a thinly disguised version of The Supremes' story - opens in Britain this week, cinemas are expected to be packed. Maxine has never regretted her decision to stay out, even though she, too, was a talented singer. In October 1968, Ballard gave birth to twin girls Michelle and Nicole Chapman. But Flo, whose strong gospel voice had been praised since childhood, resented the fact that, in theory, she had the better, more powerful sound. ". Florence Ballard's Daughters On Inside Edition, I ruffuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person, www.insideedition.com/ourstories/inside_stories/story.aspx?storyid=644. A very sad and bitter story. I'll see you all later."
INSIDE EDITION spoke to twins Nicole and Michelle Chapman and their younger sister Lisa, at Lisa's modest Detroit home, not far from the original headquarters of Motown. "We used to fly around the projects as if we owned them," Maxine says.
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