Why Women Kill - TV

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Why Women Kill - TV

Rych McCain International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist

“Why Women Kill"

Celebrates with A Lavish Blue Carpet Premiere

      CBS All Access celebrated its new original series WHY WOMEN KILL, with a lavish Blue Carpet Premiere held at the beautiful Wallis Annenberg Center for The Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. 
 

L-R Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Ginnifer Goodwin & Lucy Liu

      The series is a darkly comedic drama created by Marc Cherry (“Desperate Housewives,” “Devious Maids”), will premiere on Thursday, August 15. 2019.  Episodes of WHY WOMEN KILL’s 10-episode first season will be available on demand weekly on Thursdays exclusively for CBS All Access subscribers.

Jack Davenport

Adam Ferrera

     WHY WOMEN KILL details the lives of three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the ‘60s, a socialite in the ‘80s and a lawyer in 2019, each dealing with infidelity in their marriages. The series will examine how the roles of women have changed, but how their reaction to betrayal…has not.

     WHY WOMEN KILL stars Lucy Liu, Ginnifer Goodwin and Kirby Howell-Baptiste. The cast includes Jack Davenport, Sam Jaeger, Reid Scott, Alexandra Daddario, Sadie Calvano, Leo Howard, Alicia Coppola and Katie Finneran.The series will be produced by Imagine Television Studios and CBS Television Studios. Creator Marc Cherry will serve as executive producer alongside Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Francie Calfo and Acme Productions’ Michael Hanel and Mindy Schultheis. Marc Webb will also executive produce and is set to direct the series premiere and two additional episodes. 
  

Alicia Coppola

Alicia Coppola – Sheila Mosconi  

     Coppola plays Sheila Mosconi the neighbor of the Stantons from the 1960’s. Did you agree with the wives in the series? And maybe not how they handled the situation but why they did what they did? Coppola laughs, “You see you are talking a New York Italian, so we have our ways of handling things. I play Sheila Mosconi and Sheila has her way of handling things so I agree with every thing they have done. Absolutely. Was it  particularly the man’s fault? Coppola explains, “What Marc (the show’s creator), has done is really taken a look at how women have evolved, how we have taken off our aprons and come out of the kitchens and maybe into the boardrooms, but how our reaction to love, heartbreak and betrayal has not changed. So you can take us out of an apron but we are still going to react and feel the same when faced with betrayal.” 

Kirby Howell-Baptiste

Kirby Howell-Baptiste – Taylor Harding

     Baptiste plays the current 2019, professional lawyer wife in this tri-decade series. In describing her character, she says, “Being 2019, the idea was to develop me as being much more complicated then it was in the past because relationships have changed. For me, knowing that I was in 2019, so being able to bring this modern aspect to it. I saw was an approach looking at my relationship and the relationships around me and so how much more complex they are now. How much more than say our parents or grandparents.”
 
 

Marc Cherry

Marc Cherry – The Show’s Creator/Writer

      When these women did what the did, they probably wouldn’t have done this 50 years ago. So are women nowadays being influenced by the “Me Too” movement, being independent and all the rest of this stuff going on? Cherry answers with delight, “The interesting thing about this show is that it takes place in three different decades. At the end of the 10^th episode, every era has a death. It shows how women have changed over the years but it also shows how marriage and the sense of betrayal has not changed. So the truth is, there’s a timelessness to the show. I don’t think it is as effected by politics as one might think. This plays to a lot of constants about the way husbands and wives treat each other and the kinds of things that can really tick people off and we also have some surprises instore. So people will ultimately be very shocked by the reasons why these women kill when they do.” Will this scare men out there married or not? Cherry laughs, “You know, there are good guys and not so good guys and if men haven’t learned the price of cheating by now, their never going to learn.” Cherry adds, “I think every woman should make her husband watch this show and he may be singing a different tune by the end of the ten episodes.”

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Gregory "Boss Man" Williams and Switch - Music

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Gregory "Boss Man" Williams and Switch - Music

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Switch Founder Greg "Boss Man" Williams Details His Experiences In His Tell-All Book “Switch, DeBarge, Motown & Me.”

     

  A lot of interest has been stirred up lately on the subjects of the late Bobby DeBarge and the superstar R&B/Funk band “Switch.” TV One’s recent airing of the Bobby DeBarge Story brought out a lot of questions of what was fact or fiction. Switch founder Greg "Boss Man" Williams has a new, tell-all book titled, “Switch, DeBarge, Motown & Me” available on Amazon that will give interested readers the 411 direct from the man who created much of it and lived through it.

 

The Original Switch, Motown Records

     Williams is as for real as it gets. He is totally transparent and open. He pulls no punches and the details of his narrative are so clear and vivid, it is as if you are actually there with him as it all unfolds. In reviewing the book, I couldn’t put it down as Williams takes you on an eye-opening journey from the time he first met Bobby DeBarge in high school. 

    

The late Bobby DeBarge R.I.P.

They fast became good friends and when they discovered that both of them had music and performing in common, it was the start of a journey that included the family drama of the abusive DeBarge dad to the highs and lows of growing up and coming of age while shouldering the trials and tribulations of struggling musicians trying to get a foot hold into the music industry.

  

Switch founder Gregory "Boss Man" Williams

 

     Williams is so personable and entertaining to talk to, one could chat for hours because he feels like an old friend that you haven’t seen in a while. Right On Magazine Publisher and Editor Cynthia Horner christened him as Greg “Boss Man” Williams back in Switch’s heyday. Maybe because he is the founder of the group. That moniker has stuck in my mind over the years and I still refer to him as Boss Man. 

   

    During his struggling years, William’s mom and grandpa consistently said to him what all young musicians starting out have to hear i.e., “You need to get a job.” So how did they react when Switch’s first album went platinum? Williams laughs, “At that point, everybody knew it all the time. They said I knew you were going to do that. But before that, they didn’t think I was going to do nothing. Now they were saying I knew you had it in you.” Williams adds, “Any you know what man, I just let them have it. I just let them go with it. I was happy that they finally saw what I was trying to show them.”

Current line up of Switch

      What would Williams say to young, up coming musicians who are hearing that “Get a job crap” today? He says, “ I always tell them and even now I tell them you believe in yourself. No matter what above and beyond everything else, you believe in yourself. And then do your best to find somebody to believe in you like you do except not somebody who does the same thing that you do but somebody who can be the eyes in the back of your head.”

Jermaine and Hazel Jackson managers of Switch

    Another thing that blew my mind is the fact that Williams points out plain as day that Jermaine Jackson stutters. That something the Motown publicity machine kept a wrap on during his heyday as a teen sex symbol. 

      Williams has honed this craft no only as a seasoned trumpet player but he is an excellent, songwriter, producer and arranger who is adept enough with skills to specifically write for particular vocal ranges.

 

      In turning to the dark side of the music industry, why would anyone with good sense get into drugs, especially when they have hundreds of examples of how stars who came before them had their careers destroyed and lost their lives? Williams responds, “The horrible thing about it in most situations, you’re not looking for it, it’s looking for you in the industry. The dope dealers and the entertainers so it’s true. They want to be in the spotlight. The way that they can be seen and be in the spotlight is to hang out with you (the entertainer). And the way they can hangout with you is to feed you something that you ain’t got.”

 

     Williams continues, “And so, in a lot of the situations, the kids get caught up innocently. I say that because I say that in my own defense. My family was not a drug using family. I didn’t come up with that kind of mess. I absolutely hated cocaine, but it was forever in my face during my Switch years. It was forever upon everything I did. I saw stars whom I admired and was in awe of and that’s what they did. The influences are all round and that’s the sad thing. And some are not strong enough to get out of it once they realize that it is damaging them. They’re gone, they can’t get out and that’s the horror of it right there.”

     Williams did not like TV One's version of The Bobby DeBarge Story because he said it had too many lies and inaccuracies in it. Switch currently has a single out on their own label titled "I Love You More," and are on tour. A second single will be released in the fall. 

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