Black Soap Spotlight: Renee Goldsberry

I confess. I watch daytime soaps.



ABC's One Life to Live catches my attention every now and then. Large in part due to Renee Goldsberry.


Renee plays the tough, articulate and beautiful attorney, Evangline Williamson, on the daytime soap and I must admit, I think she has what it takes to go far.

While many soap actors suffer from (what I like to call) the soap curse, a small few have beaten the curse and gone on to be HUGE in Hollywood. Does the name Demi Moore ring a bell? Before shedding that infamous tear in Ghost years back Demi was a regular on the daytime soap, General Hospital.

Renee strikes me as an actor with a lot of potential. While she does well with soaps, I'd like to see her in an evening sitcom of sort. Or maybe even a dramedy. Check her out in a scene from One Life To Live. And read up on some of Ms. Renee's accomplishments here.



Soaps can be so dramatic at times! I guess that's the point huh?

How Much 'Moore' Can One Take?

A good friend of mine says "pretty is a talent". And after watching a 2-hour episode of Criminal Minds tonight with actor, Shemar Moore, I would have to agree.

(above episode aired October 2006)

But I think Moore has more talent than meets the eye. I mean any brother who can have a successful run on a daytime soap(Y&R) while holding down being the host of the 106 & Park of yester-year(Soul Train), have a host of big screen flicks like Tyler Perry's Madea and a few primetime shows including CBS' Criminal Minds all while maintaining his D-list celebrity status is definitely a talented man.

I know the ladies are probably thinking right now "this boy ugly and that's why he's hating on Shemar's fine ass". And while there might be some truth there...you ladies gotta admit if ole pretty boy Moore was busted he wouldn't be on anybody's radar or network. Let alone CBS.

Sidebar: Speaking of CBS. Now I dont know about you but I don't normally do Caucasian Broadcasting System (CBS). No hate to the CBS people....but you guys know you just started doing right by black within the last decade. So its gonna take me a decade or so to warm up to you. Fair is fair. But I did give CBS a try last night and it was ok. Just ok.

Last night's episode took a typical serial killer theme yet gave it a good modern twist. As a child the killer suffered from abuse by his psycho Bible-thumpin dad and so now he not only kills people sinning but has a split personality as a result of the abuse. Where the writer(s) of this episode gets kudos is how they upgrade the story with some good ole internet computer camera spying crazy shit. Yeah..apparently the killer worked as a tech support and had the ability to look into people's home on their computer cameras after calling him for support. He then spies on them seeing their sins and then slaughtering them ala scripture. Well..you guys can figure out this ends.

I did after about 30 minutes into the show.

Luckily, Shemar was only in about 15 minutes of the 2 hour show(you know how they do black)....so he is hardly to blame for this mediocre episode.