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In Class with Carr

S E238: Stephanie Mills: Smelling The Roses

In Class with Carr

Knarrative

Africana Studies, Society & Culture, Education, History, Karen Hunter, Empowerment, Greg Carr

4.9972 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The interview with the iconic Stephanie Mills where she discuss her career and "The Wiz" 40 years later.

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. So last night right, you know, we've been talking about this all week and you know I'm normally

0:20.5

in bed by 830.

0:21.7

You are because you have children children all right and I'm no I'm normally in bed by 830. You are because you have children. All right and I'm normally

0:25.2

in bed at least by two. But I dviar everything. That's why I don't go to sleep because I dviar because I'm not

0:30.0

watching nobody's commercial. Sorry. And then I fast forward and I watch everything. I try to get it all in.

0:36.7

So I deviard the whiz, but actually I got sucked in watching because I wanted to see it live,

0:42.0

you because it was like

0:42.8

tingly you know the opening I'm again I love I love it I love it I love it so so the the

0:49.3

opening scene you know is Dorothy and you know the three guys that end up being you know the

0:55.4

line of ten man and the scarecrow and then there's this anti ant ant and

0:59.6

and it is the fabulous wonderful Stephanie Mills, which I think is great because I saw

1:05.3

Stephanie Mills, I think she was 16 years old on Broadway, and I remember sitting in the

1:10.8

nosebleed section, I was telling the audience before, I think I actually got a nosebleed but my mother had binoculars so I was able to see you know through the binoculars you hint in battle and everybody Oh girl girl girl okay so let me let me welcome to the show because I, she came in and I got apoplectic.

1:25.6

You know, it's like when you're a kid you idolize somebody because it's like,

1:29.1

let me welcome to the show.

1:31.3

The fabulous, the wonderful, the illustrious, Miss Stephanie Mills.

1:34.2

Hello everybody.

1:35.3

Hello!

1:36.3

Hey, hey, hey, welcome to our humble abode.

1:41.0

Stephanie Mills, first of all, I was, cousin, so I was like, you are fabulous, you look beautiful and I'm like, you like have gotten better.

1:49.0

Like, damn, what, okay, what are you doing? What are you doing?

1:52.0

Why do you look good? This black don't crack thing has to have got to stop.

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