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A Diva's Christmas Carol

2000, Movie, PG, 88 mins

A Diva's Christmas Carol: Review

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A VH1 original TV film that, like most of the cable music channel's efforts, is les interesting than the average '60s-era made-for-TV movie. Pop sensation Ebony Scrooge (Vanessa Williams) did not write the book on "How to Win Friends and Influence People:" she's more the "Winning through Intimidation" type. After a European tour, she orders her underpaid staff to work on Christmas, because she's planning a Yuletide charity event that will line her own pockets. As a result, her ex-lover and road manager Bob Cratchett (Brian McNamara) won't be able to spend the holidays with his critically ill son, Tim (Joshua Archambault). Once part of an '80s Motown girl group, egotistical Ebony rides roughshod over her entourage and ignores her only living relative, a niece named Olivia (Amanda Brugel). Then Ebony gets a cautionary visit from the late Marli Jacob (Chilli Thomas), her former soul sister, who promises social calls from the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future! In the past, parental abuse and the death of her beloved brother coarsened Ebony's spirit and fueled her single-minded ambition, leading her to steal the spotlight from Marli and Terry (Stephanie Biddle), the third member of their trio. Once she achieved solo stardom, Ebony never bothered to help the now-unemployed Terry, even when she found herself down and out. After getting a glimpse of the self-serving motives that drive her "loyal" crew's pampering, Ebony reevaluates her heartlessness — does she want to be part of a future holds nothing but an early demise and a Behind the Music expose of her ungenerous life? Before promoters can exploit her after death, Ebony has a chance to change her ways. Strikingly beautiful and musically gifted, the placid Williams nevertheless comes up short in demanding roles like this one. It would take the gusto of Loretta Devine or Jenifer Lewis to bulldoze through this flimsy star vehicle, and Williams just doesn't have the spirit. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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