Mo'nique's Vegas Residency

Wow, that's how you respect black women!

She is suing Netflix!

I've never seen someone so bound and determined to derail their own career like this loud mouth.

Some people don't realize how fortunate they truly are. Her Oscar speech showed what a spoiled and entitled brat she was/is.

Who??

"Sure, it's the SLS Hotel in the middle of nowhere, but, according to her, it's the first time a black woman has had a Vegas residency. As usual, Sister Mo wants to school you..."

---Really?

R6 I was going to say, there have been black women with residencies before her, at more prestigious hotels. Remember Lola Falana "The Queen Of Las Vegas," she was doing residencies in the 1970s.

What R7 said. Lola Falana was considered the “Queen of Las Vegas” in the 1970s. My mom and an aunt knew her back then. From Wiki:

“ With help from Sammy Davis, Jr., [Lola Falan] brought her act to Las Vegas and became a top draw there. By the late 1970s, Falana was considered the "Queen of Las Vegas". She played to sold-out crowds at The Sands, The Riviera, and the MGM Grand hotels. Finally The Aladdin offered her $100,000 a week to perform. At the time, Falana was the highest paid female performer in Las Vegas. Her show ran twenty weeks a year and became a major tourist attraction.

While still playing to sold-out crowds in Las Vegas, Falana joined the cast of a short-lived CBS soap opera, Capitol, as Charity Blake, a wealthy entertainment mogul. In 1983, Falana was appearing at Bally's hotel and casino in Atlantic City and, while playing baccarat, won a minority stake in the New York Mets, a stake she held until she sold it in 1988 for 14 million dollars to Frank Cashen.”

She just likes to taste pussy on his johnson.

While Monique adds in race, in addition to gender, she and Taylor Swift seem very similar and entitled. They both think that they don't have to play by the same rules as every other entertainer, and that everyone and every company must bend to their whims and desires.

I feel like she had reverted to being one of her Charm School pupils. Sad.

You can take the girl out of a Baltimore hood, but you can't take that hood out of some Baltimore girls.

Mo'nique was riding high after Precious, and would likely have won her Oscar and gone onto greater things if she kept her big mouth shut, and played the game. This is the same game everyone in Hollywood, white, black, brown skinned; straight, gay or trans, and male or female must roll with.

Admittedly being a big black woman certain brakes were against her; Oprah over came all that and moved on....

Queen Latifah is another big round the way girl who has done well enough for herself, but Mo just won't keep that lip zipped.

She's getting older and has burnt too many bridges; pretty soon even Tyler Perry won't even go near.

R12 He already won't, which is why she has called him out so much. Which was stupid. If she had at least played up to him, he might have built one of his sitcoms or soaps around her.

Is she a gay man? The whole let your man mess around sounds like so many dataglounge posters, as in they mess around and do not want anything close to monogamy. Just saying'. I guess I am finally embracing the whole pointless bitchery thing.

[quote]Mon'Nique told the Black women in the audience to allow their men to have side chicks. According to Mo'Nique, requiring a Black man to be monogamous came out of White supremacy."

Because it's so "White Supremacist" to take on more women than one can afford and treat them and their progeny badly to become the dominant big man who rules over many households of women beholden to him as her unfaithful husband who ruined her career and sold her the bill of goods she's trying to sell at a low-rate Vegas "entertainment" venue?

Well done, bitch. You showed EVERYONE, especially your husband's "things" who likely teem around the cut-rate hotel hoping to be the next, but skinny Mo'

There (sadly) is a long history in the "black" American female culture of having to accept a man running around.

Alice Walker took much heat from the AA "community" about her book The Color Purple. People were upset she was airing too much dirty linen from the AA community including men beating up their wives, sleeping with (ok raping) young girls (even their own daughters), and of course stepping out on their women.

Few black men or women in the "community" had good things to say about "Mr...." (played by Danny Glover in the film). A man who beats Celie, and not only openly cheats on her with another woman (Shug), but moves "his hoe" into his wife's house as Mr's father puts things.

MLK had problems keeping his pants zipped, so did Jesse Jackson, and they weren't the only ones by far.

There is a reason many of the old blues standards like "Saint Louis Woman" or " Don't Explain" resonate with AA women both performers and others;

Mo is essentially repeating the sad same old advice given to many AA women for over one hundred years; having half or whatever fraction of a man is better than not having one at all.

Yes, there are women of other races who subscribed to that theory, but most have moved onto "I can do bad all by myself", and kick trifling men to the curb.

Only a weak woman would be OK with their husband sleeping around.

Sad thing is Mo'nique does have talent. She carried "the Parkers" for several seasons, and did other television work with pretty good success.

If she could control that mouth and learn how to get along, Mo could still find a home on small screen with a regular sitcom. If not something from Tyler Perry then another UPN sort of thing.

I guess some AA women like being victimized by their men and like seeing their children getting less because selfish fuckers like to spread what little they have across multiple families, with the little they have.

Does she sincerely believe the AA community is better off if men have multiple families and try to fend for them all? God, what a stupid, uneducated cunt she is. Hope she doesn't have any progeny to pass it on to.

R19

Listen and learn

Sorry, forgot link

James Brown has a hand in Tammi Terrel's death and he's probably proud of it, if he's still alive to claim ownership.

In 1962, 17-year-old Terrell became sexually involved in an abusive relationship with James Brown who was 12 years her senior. One night on the road in 1963, Terrell left Brown after he assaulted her for not watching his entire performance. Bobby Bennett, former member of the Famous Flames, witnessed the incident. "He beat Tammi Terrell terrible. She was bleeding, shedding blood. Tammi left him because she didn't want her butt whipped," said Bennett.[15]

But, then, Tammi died and Brown was OK.

Girls, girls...get in line..

R22 James Brown is dead. And, while he had a horrible problem with abusing women, I don't think there is any way to connect his beating of Tammi Terrell in 1962, to her death in 1970 from brain tumors. She had suffered from migraines and headaches her entire life, and had probably had undiagnosed brain cancer for a long time.

R17

Guess you'll have to include Elizabeth II in that list of "weak women", as they do say her consort Prince Phillip got up to things early in their marriage.

Throw Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, Jackie Kennedy, and quite a few others as well. These are (or were) educated women often with extensive means of their own; unlike many poor AA women they weren't dependent upon men for income.

Minority women of various classes get taken to task for remaining with men they must share if they want them at all; meanwhile those of European descent get a pass.

Oh and not let's not forget that other long suffering wife: Mrs. Stephen Haines......

Mrs. Moorehead's advice is *NOT* that far off from Mo's either.

Elizabeth II, is a special case because as Queen and head of the Church of England, divorce was not possible for her, even if she had wanted one.

Most people assume Eleanor Roosevelt was a lesbian having her own same-sex affairs and quite fine with situation.

Hillary Clinton has been ridiculed for staying with Bill, and I think it is one of the reasons many Americans didn't take her seriously. I know many people who never supported her runs for President, because they viewed her as weak because she stayed with Bill.

Jackie Kennedy, I'll give you that one.

[quote]and had probably had undiagnosed brain cancer for a long time.

How do you or we know this? Cancer/tumor diagnoses were in their infancy in the '60s, yet you can tell us she had "undiagnosed brain cancer for a long time." Unprecedented medical expertise reaching back to all the categorical and continuous symptoms which you're very familiar with, I trust, reported in the early to mid '60s medical literature and their epidemiology? Wow.

Do you not at least accept/consider how many traumatic beatings to the head, including Brown's and Ruffn's hammer blows & the pain inflicted could have masked tumor symptoms or getting an accurate and true diagnosis that might have kept her a little pain free for a while longer? Or maybe alive? I don't know, maybe the tumor was operable for a while when these guys kept beating the shit out of her?

The beatings likely kept her from going to an MD who might have given a decent provisional diagnosis besides "sorry, 'bout that cur/cunt who beat you the fuck up" because all of the beating symptoms masked the true diagnosis back in the '60s (especially when neurologists weren't interested in black female singers.) Women feel shame (or worse, acceptance or blame) for getting beaten. Does the African American community think female subjugation is a good thing a la Brown and Ruffin because they're Motown "heroes" of some kind? Definitely "legends," for sure.

Gladys Knight had a Las Vegas residency playing at The Tropicana several nights per week in 2011 or so.

Mo'nique has lost her mind.

She was fine until she started believing every word out of her mouth as the gospel.

Hon, you're a vaudevillian, lighten up!

R28 I’m basing it on the fact that she apparently had the symptoms her entire life. As you said the diagnosis of brain cancer was not advanced at the time, so it is reasonable to assume that it went undetected for a long time. Beatings are not, even now, thought to cause brain tumors. They could cause other brain damage such as CTE, but not cancer.

The SLS?? Good Lord.

Do they partake?

So the SLS is the former Sahara? Weird re-branding choice.

Ok - I agree with above - she does have talent and she can be extremely funny and entertaining. But she seems to have gone off the rails once she hooked up with her cheating husband and manager. I put more than half the blame on him.

An actual manager would tell her - fuck no, you have to do these interviews around Oscar time and no, you can't say that shit.

She's getting really horrible advice and management by her husband, but she's too blind to see. We've seen this with female entertainers over and over again. She's being told to stand up for herself and say what ever she wants - that nobody owns her. That's not how you do PR and media.

Well, she's already trashed Oprah, Tyler Perry, Lee Daniels and tons of others. That's not people you want against you.

Plus - we all know her husband Sidney Hicks is fooling around with other MEN, not women. It's all over the internet.

r10 Taylor is trying to get control of the content she helped create. There are no unions or laws to protect top entertainers, they have to negotiate well and usually the have to concede quite a bit just to get that first contract.

Music and comedy are very different worlds, you can't compare what Mo is doing to what Taylor is doing. They are both loud mouths however.

Things are going pretty good for me! How do I fuck it up?

Damn r28 you did that.

Well done.

[quote] I've never seen someone so bound and determined to derail their own career like this loud mouth.

Oh no?

You do know that this statement is from standup, right? Stop taking everything seriously. You don’t even know the context.

R39 - and in what context does allowing your husbands and boyfriends to fuck other people would make it funny in standup?

No matter what the context, certain statements are going to bite you in the ass. You just don't say them.

Like Tracy Morgan who said he would stab his son if he was gay?

What about if a comedian says he only hits his wife some of the time? I guess context is everything in those situations too, right?

I love that turban on her.

[quote] No matter what the context, certain statements are going to bite you in the ass. You just don't say them.

[quote] Like Tracy Morgan who said he would stab his son if he was gay?

Yeah, I don't really equate the acceptance of infidelity with saying you would kill your gay son. Besides, isn't she just repeating what gay men have said many times? That men are by nature, not monogamous.

YOU GO, MO!

R42 - well, she said black men being monogamous came out of white supremacy. So it wasn't just infidelity.

You may not think it's a bad statement to make, but I don't think black women exactly endorse the idea. Black women have a hard enough time and some men are just unthinking, irresponsible jerks who shouldn't automatically get a free pass. It's insulting AF. And then let's add on the racist bullshit that white people are forcing fidelity on them.

And she says all this while people know her husband is sleeping with other men, not women. No need to have this in your act - absolutely none. Again - I point the finger at her shitty husband/manager.

R34 I sincerely doubt Oprah or Tyler Perry give this woman a second thought. To get to that level you have to be hardened to malcontents. Plus I don't believe that in between running billion dollar empires these two are ringing up producers to trash talk Monique of all people.

Does her show start on time? Does she wear an eyepatch? If the answers are, in this order, yes and no, I'm going down there to see dis.

R44 what do you mean he's sleeping with men and not women? Where did that come from? This is new to me.

Honey, don't you wish your husband's side pieces were chicks!

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There's a transgender comic who says Monique tried to kick her off the comedy circuit for being queer. The trasgender is in Tiffany Hadish new comedy special. The transgender has been spilling the tea on Moniques husband although his DL rumors pre-date the transgender

[quote] So the SLS is the former Sahara? Weird re-branding choice.

It was, thankfully it is now the Sahara again.

R they completely re-branding the hotel back to the Sahara?

From everything, I have read, yes, the entire resort. They have new owners. It was idiotic to rename it to begin with. Sahara is one of the most iconic names in Vegas.

SLS is a luxury brand so it made sense to rebrand.

As for Monique, the only thing worse than telling people they should absolutely be monogamous is telling people they shouldn’t be monogamous. People need to figure out what their needs are, what they’re comfortable with, learn how to express that verbally, and partner with people who have similar needs. Anytime you start saying that one type of relationship is better than another is how bad relationships start. A couple should be monogamous because they want and need to be not because it’s inherently better or more moral.

I've heard that Mo'nique's decline began when she failed to acknowledge Lee Daniels in that embarrassing Oscar speech of performance over politics . She thanked Oprah, Tyler Perry and a lot of people but not a word on him.

She also burns all the bridges as possible almost as if she doesn't want to work.

Her problems began way before that. It went south for her when she refused to do international promo for the movie unless they paid her extra and then she began to whine in interviews. She turned the awards campaign into a circus and then she gave very bitchy awards speeches.

Despite snubbing Lee Daniels in her acceptance speech, he considered her for a part in The Butler years later. She even got a script. From Moniques own mouth, Lee Daniels even cinsidered her for the Empire role that went to TarajI P Henson.

Moniques problem is that there are equally talented black actresses with more cross cultural than she has. She's just not worth the trouble, the way other difficult actresses might be.

I've just never understood why Mo'Nique threw it all away post-Oscar. She could have been gracious and kind and tried to express in her words and actions that she fully understood the gift of being placed in an ideal position for future parts and financial rewards. She wasn't even up against white Hollywood. She was being offered these parts by the emerging black superstars of film production, her "brothers" and "sisters." Before Netflix, it was those people she nickeled and dimed.

Is it too late for her to eat some humble pie?

This is how you roll!

Say what you want, but Hattie McDaniel knew how the game was played and worked with the hand she was dealt.

OTOH Butterfly McQueen kept running her mouth moaning and whatever; in consequence what Hattie McDaniel told her during filming of GWTW came true "Hollywood won't ask you back again, you complain too much...".

Oh, I can understand why someone who is deeply insecure, defensive, and not too bright might not be willing or able to pay the game.

What I don't understand is why her agents and managers don't do more to play it for her! Even that creepy gay husband of hers, he's got to understand that if she gets on Tyler Perry's good side, there's going to be more money to spend on hustlers and blow.

Mo has been in the business now for more than two decades; she isn't some lost babe in the woods.

Heck even new arrivals in Hollywood quickly smarten up if they want to get ahead.

When you consider "other" things actors and actresses are asked (and or must) do to get ahead, going on a PR jaunt or whatever does seem not that big a deal.

Only people who can get away with sort of stunts Mo is pulling are proven rain makers. That is Tammy Cruise might get away with this sort of behavior; but a jumped up AA former stand-up comic from Baltimore, MD? No, not so much.

Dave Chappelle got his 20 million because that is what he's worth to NF, he's played the game and in the process not only became famous but made tons of money.

R62 Cruise, even with his massive hopped up ego, would know better than to behave like she did.

Tom Cruise spends hours working the fans at premier red carpets. I believe he holds a Guiness Book Record for it. Tom knows when you make a movie, it's in your best interests to sell it hard.

I'm with Oprah. I would never make peace with someone like Monique because she's not gracious enough to meet you half way. She'll just run her mouth about how you are a villain and she finally broke you. It will never end with your apology.

R65

Exactly!

Mo is still very much straight up from hoods of Baltimore. She would accept any sort of apology as her right and proper due, then berate the person issuing for taking so long about things. Then would continue being like a dog with a bone about the matter; never letting it drop so long as she lives.