Jennifer Lewis was born to play Jackie Washington! I saw this one late night on Lifetime, and I didn't know what it was because I had never heard of it...I usually don't like anything associated with Robert Townsend, but this changed my mind. He is an actor's director. This movie has a lot of my favorite actors in hilarious roles; Tim Curry, Whoopi Goldberg, Loretta Devine and especially Isabel Sanford as Jackie's play mama(something I remember from MY childhood)was a riot! The celebrities who played themselves completed the whole mock-umentary feel-Jackie Collins, Kathy Griffin, but especially Camryn Manheim, Penny Marshall and Bette Midler. The first time I watched the movie, I kept asking" Is Jackie Washington a REAL person that I just never heard of?" When I found out that she wasn't it made everything even funnier.
Review of Jackie's Back!
