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A true black female screenwriter pioneer passes away: Judi Ann Mason

Jul 16, 2009 00:32

( I can't believe this is how I find out about her! )

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docwash July 16 2009, 06:25:24 UTC

I said, 'Boy, I could sure use that money,' so I wrote 'Livin' Fat,' and it won," Mason told the New Orleans Times-Picayune in 1995.

Mason's winning play -- about a poor black family facing the moral dilemma of whether to keep a large sum of money that had unexpectedly come into its possession -- was produced in New York while she was still in school.

THAT WAS AN EPISODE OF WHAT'S HAPPENIN!!! Raj wrote an episode for a tv show and sent it to the studio. The guys were watching tv where the characters on that show found a bag of money. Raj went to the studio crying foul/stealing and the studio head told him that they get similar scripts all the time.

docwash July 16 2009, 06:27:30 UTC

Just had to add that was an episode of Good Times too. I think James found some money and "allegedly" gave it back to the bank/store. We later find out that James kept some of the money and Florida gives him grief while JJ is all DYNO-MIIIIITE

bana05 July 16 2009, 10:09:53 UTC

Wow, she was amazing. I hope she rests in peace.

recumbentgoat July 16 2009, 13:06:00 UTC

54? that's a damn shame. what an amazing woman.

RIP Sista! espnchick1920 July 16 2009, 13:08:04 UTC

Really sad that I hadn't even heard of her. We really need to do a better job of hyping brothas & sistas that are successful in ways other than being athletes & entertainers. I have students who have heard of Dr. Benjamin Carson & STILL don't believe Black folks can do anything other than rap or play sports, even in light of Barack Obama.

Re: RIP Sista! nepthys_12 July 16 2009, 15:46:14 UTC

This.
RIP Judi Mason and thank you for being a trailblazer

sprorion July 16 2009, 14:22:42 UTC

Thank you for this.

RIP Ms. Mason