Paul Tazewell
speaker
386 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 7 Jun
Paul Tazewell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yep, that's right.
The one with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.
Nipsey Russell was in it.
And Richard Pryor.
And Lena Horne.
And that was hugely formative for me, visually.
To see black faces in this epic film, rendered in great style, and amazing music by Quincy Jones...
It blew my mind, you know, to see that kind of expression of disco iconography represented as the Emerald City world.
You know, because I knew The Wizard of Oz from 1939, but then to see it told in our, you know, my cultural language was...
was, you know, life-changing.
It was like, oh, yeah, well, of course.
You know, this all works beautifully.
You know, or like the... I think they call them the Winkies in the film.
Those people in the factory that are working for Eveline, when they unzip out of their bodies and the skin falls away, and then there are these beautiful dance theater Harlem dancers...
And you see their brown skin and, you know, just, you know, that was, again, mind-blowing.
It was magical.
Then, because I went to a magnet school in Akron, part of that was that there was a performing arts program within that school.
And at that time, I wanted to be an actor, singer, dancer.
That was my hope and drive.
So at 16, my teacher, Arnold Thomas, he realized that I was very interested in costume design.
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