Talking About "For Colored Girls..."

Sounds like there's sufficient interest to get together and chat after we individually see For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.

Now, look---EVERYBODY is invited, of course. And yet, what makes sense to me is that since Aubrey, Mark, Rodney and myself have publicly declared interest, we should have right of first refusal in terms of the actual talk-date that get's chosen. Only seems fair; I hope you guys agree.

So. Let me throw out the two dates that seem ideal to me: Wednesday, November 10th or Thursday, November 11th. Best times seem to be 6-7:30 or 6:30-8, since the meeting would start after the workday, but would still deliver brothers back to their homes early in the evening.

What say you?

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For Colored Girls...

Back when Precious was a hot topic, me and a few other BMR?! members were at a restaurant after one of our meetings, and we thought it might be interesting and fun to invite anyone who's interested to view upcoming "cultural event" movies and then gather together and talk about them.

It was too late to do it with Precious, but another film likely to be much talked about is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, directed by Tyler Perry. The film opens on November 5. What do you guys think of going to see it and then discussing?

There are a number of ways we could go about it, if there's sufficient interest. I think trying to organize one singular screening to attend and then floating to a restaurant afterwards is a bit too much to ask. Just seems unrealistic to me. What makes more sense is that brothers (and their significant others, perhaps) take that first weekend to see the film at their leisure, on that Friday, Saturday or Sunday, and then we pick a different day to meet and chat. That latter strategy would also mean we could meet earlier in the evening.

Now, I am out of town that first weekend of November, although I hope to see the film in Atlanta either the day it opens or the next day. If you brothers are, indeed, interested in getting together and informally chatting, is the preference to do it on a weeknight? On a weekend? Or am I wrong and you would, actually, prefer seeing it and then meeting directly after? If not, and we do separate the two, I wonder if, say, a 6-7:30 meet on a weeknight---or a 6:30-8 or a 7-8:30---would allow us to meet on, say, Wednesday, November 10th or Thursday, November 11th?

Anyway, I just thought I'd mention the possibility, since every now and then these cultural event films will arrive, and For Colored Girls... is surely the latest. If you guys're interested, express that interest below. If not, we'll see each other at our next regularly scheduled meeting on November 20th at UR at 5 p.m. Either way, I'm looking forward to it.