Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Leslie Gray Streeter's "Family & Other Calamities," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Family & Other Calamities: A Novel by Leslie Gray Streeter.

The entry begins:
Dawn Roberts is a widowed entertainment journalist who returns home with her husband’s ashes and 30 years’ worth of secrets. The big newspaper story that launched the career of her former friend Joe Perkins? He stole it from Dawn, because she made it easy by trusting him. And for decades she’s kept his secret out of shame and necessity, until she comes home and discovers that Joe is making a movie out of the stolen story…and she’s the villain.

Here are my dream actors:

Dawn: Regina Hall. I think she can play both drama and broad comedy, and you have to believe her as a both a distinguished professional and someone who can get wacky if she has to.

Joe: Morris Chestnut. I wrote the character with him in mind; a handsome, deep-voiced charmer who can seductively get his way and...[read on]
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My Book, The Movie: Family & Other Calamities.

--Marshal Zeringue