Search results
Lackawanna Blues is a 2005 American biographical drama television film directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. It aired on HBO on February 12, 2005. It is based on the play of the same name by Santiago-Hudson. Wolfe had commissioned the stage version.
- Biographical Drama
Oct 8, 2021 · More than anything, this self-made matriarch nurtures her ersatz family by giving each member his proper due — a warm place to rest, a safe place to recover, or just a place at the table to find...
Feb 6, 2005 · Nanny (Ms. Merkerson, known to most viewers as Lt. Anita Van Buren on "Law & Order") creates a boardinghouse community within a community in Lackawanna, a city in the northwestern corner of...
Sep 16, 2021 · The Lackawanna Blues writer and director, 64, opens up to PEOPLE about his close friendship with the late star and recalls one of the last times he met up with Williams prior to his death...
Lackawanna Blues is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson that premiered in 2001. It was later adapted as a television movie that aired in 2005. The play dramatizes the character of the author's primary caregiver when he was growing up in Lackawanna, New York, during the 1950s and 1960s.
Mar 15, 2019 · The brawl between one-legged Lemuel Taylor, whom Nanny rescued from a mental hospital, and Numb Finger Peter, who lost his fingers after drunkenly falling asleep in the Buffalo snow, is presented...
Feb 11, 2005 · The film has moments of sadness and heartache, and many treacly ones, hammered home by the blind singer Robert Bradley crooning the blues on sidewalks and backdoor stoops, but "Lackawanna" is...
