Fame comes and goes, starts rise and fall, but dreams live forever.Effie White: Oh, I can go further! I can go further! Taglines Effie White: So they bought your black ass too, huh? C.C. Effie White: You in this with them, C.C.? C.C. Magic White: Momma, why are you so slow? Effie White: Because I'm old.Ĭ.C. Effie White: There's no money dirty enough to buy me out. I'm not building this group to have you tear it apart! Go head and rant and scream and shout! Don't worry, baby, I'll buy you out. Effie White: Curtis, I'm your woman! Curtis Taylor, Jr.: But you're gettin' out now. Effie White: Trouble?! Curtis Taylor, Jr.: You were real bad trouble from the start. It was you! You always thinkin' of you! Always thinkin' of you! Curtis Taylor, Jr.: I knew you were trouble from the start. Lorrell Robinson: What?! Effie White: I always knew you two were gangin' up on me! Deena Jones: She had nothing to do with this change. I have put up with your bitchin', I put up with your naggin', and all your screamin' too! Lorrell Robinson: Now when are you two gonna stop all this fighting? Effie White: Stay out of this, Lorrell! This is between Deena and me! Lorrell Robinson: Yeah? Well, it's between me too! I'm a part of this group as anybody else! And I'm tired! Effie, I'm tired of all the problems you're makin' us! Effie White: I always knew you two were together. She ain't nothin' but common! Deena Jones: Now who you callin' common, you self-indulgent, self-absorbed, non-professional? Effie White: You! I'm callin' you! I'm callin' you the common piece he's knockin' off! Deena Jones: Now you listen to me, Miss Blame-It-On-The-World, see, I put up with you for much too long. White: Isn't music supposed to express what people are feeling? Curtis Taylor Jr.: Music is supposed to sell.Įffie White: She ain't better than anybody. She had the number-one single on the R&B charts, but the white stations wouldn't play it, because to them it was just another race record.Ĭ.C. Curtis Taylor, Jr.: "A product." I like that!Ĭurtis Taylor Jr.: Who was the first artist to sing "Hound Dog"? C.C. Mae Jones: You make her sound like a product. Curtis Taylor, Jr.: Oh, Deena has something better. As much as I love my daughter, I never thought she had much of a voice. but I've got the voice, Curtis! I've got the voice! You can't put me in back you just can't! Effie White: Well, what am I supposed to do? Deena's beautiful, and she's always been beautiful. Deena's going to sing the lead 'cause you like the way she looks? Am I ugly to you, Curtis? Curtis Taylor Jr.: Baby, come on! You know how I feel about you, come on. Contest judge: Thanks a lot man, because they were going to lose anyway!Įffie White: So. M.C.: And now, the courageous, the curvaceous, Creamettes! Deena Jones: It's the Dreamettes! The Dreamettes!Ĭurtis Taylor, Jr.: $500 says the Dreamettes do not win. gets his own freaking album? I mean, can he even sing? So why am I sitting here without so much as a B-side on a 45, when an amateur like Martin Luther King Jr. Isn't that what you keep telling me? "Get in line, Effie. Effie White: It's about fairness, Curtis. Do you think it's right to promote an amateur performer over a professional? Curtis Taylor Jr.: I'm not sure what this is about. For the past four months I have been your food, your rent, your support network.ĭialogue Effie White: Tell me something, Curtis. That place is so white they will not even hire us to wash dishes!.Jimmy want a rib, Jimmy want a steak, Jimmy want a piece of your chocolate cake!.Hey, I got soul! You can't kill a man with soul!.We're your Dreamgirls, Dreamgirls will never leave you. We're your Dreamgirls, boy, we'll always care We're your Dreamgirls, boy, we'll make you happy. If you open your eyes towards in front of you. Ev'ry man has his own special dreamĪnd that dream is just about to come true.Deena, you know why I chose you to sing lead? Because your voice.'Cause this time, Effie White's gonna win! You stopped me once, but you'll never stop me again.
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