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Apex Mountain
Shari Headley; Allison Dean; Clint Smith; Jheri curls in film
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Approx. transcript time · 01:30:43Read transcript
- Eddie Murphy is not at Apex here.
- Arsenio Hall is proposed as at Apex, but the objection is that the Arsenio Hall Show is his apex, with 1989 preferred.
- James Earl Jones's apex is debated: this film and Field of Dreams, the 70s, the voice of Darth Vader, the Yellow Pages ads, possibly no apex, or Sandlot as a belated apex.
- Best of the Best is jokingly named as an apex and a future Rewatchables pick.
- Shari Headley and the other sister are "definitely Apex for both".
- St. John's is no, because the 1985 team with Chris Mullin, Walter Berry and Mark Jackson was better.
- Clint Smith is a yes.
- Hot tubs are raised; the Coming to America hot tub is admired, but others point to Julia Roberts and Eddie's James Brown sketch.
- For Jheri curls, Soul Glo is both the nadir and the apex, at least in film.
- Queens isn't treated well enough to be at Apex, and classy New York hotels peak with Home Alone.
- Barbershop conversations were copied for 33 years, but the movie Barbershop is judged the apex for barbershops.
- The category should be specific to Black barbershops because Mississippi Burning has a barbershop scene the same year. — Wesley Morris
- It's got to be Barbershop.
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- Nominees include Frankie Faison, Louie Anderson, and Sam Jackson, then in a rut of playing guys with drug issues or robbing places.
- Patrice, played by Allison Dean, gives a great Dion Waiters performance, including her line about earrings.
- She is super likable, hot and sexually assertive and owns it, matching the late-80s R&B attitude of songs like Ain't Nothing Going On but the Rent and What Have You Done for Me Lately.
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- Madge Sinclair is considered, but she is known as the queen and had many Emmy nominations.
- Runner-up is Paul Bates, the first person seen, who sings when the queen is introduced; IMDb lists True Romance.
- The winner is Allison Dean as the sister Patrice, great in the movie and expected to have a long career.
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