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As executive producer, Watson wants to create more conversations on women of color's realities in their everyday lives. PGN: What was your first job out of school? TW: [Laughs.] I got a job at a furniture company dusting furniture. I lived at home for a while and then I started to travel. I lived in Boston for a summer, I lived in Harrisburg for a summer, Virginia, and then I came to Philadelphia. Boston was tough, very racist at that time. PGN: What’s a smell that makes you stop and reflect? TW: Lavender. It makes me think of the country and fields of flowers.
As of 2015 there are plans to make a feature film biopic of Pendergrass's life, and Tyrese Gibson is set to star as the late singer. [24] In 2020, Essence Magazine wrote that Gibson reached out to Lee Daniels to produce the film. [25] I don’t shy away from asking the difficult questions because I know that’s what the audience will want me to do. As far as Teddy and his sexual preferences go I did ask Tenika and she said he didn’t know about her being a trans woman and Teddy himself said that as well.” She also plans to create more segments and conversations built around what fans of the show want to discuss.If you don’t ask the difficult questions what you get is a film that feels too superficial and you don’t get a sense that you’ve gone into the subject and explored all the issues,” Lichtenstein says. His concerts – some of them presented for women only – drew screaming, ecstatic crowds and female fans would fling teddy bears and lingerie onstage.
Purtell, Tim (March 18, 1994). "The Trials of Teddy Pendergrass". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved August 3, 2008. First, the car started speeding up really fast, and I was wondering, 'Was he driving fast?' -- but he wasn't. It was out of control," Watson says. "Then I noticed he was struggling with the wheel, and all of a sudden I heard this great big bang." PGN: Any siblings? TW: Oh yes, I’m one of eight! Well, nine actually, but my oldest sister died shortly after birth. I’m the third from the end. In 1982, charismatic soul singer Teddy Pendergrass was at the peak of his career when he slammed his Rolls Royce into a tree, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down. Though there were no other vehicles involved in the crash, there was a passenger in Pendergrass' car. In the wake of the accident, questions emerged about this mystery woman. Her name was Tenika Watson, a nightclub performer and transgender woman.Soon after the accident, Watson tried to reach out to Pendergrass, but was unsuccessful. "I went to the hospital where he was and there was a woman there. She said, 'Well, you're not going to see him before his son does,' and she caused this big scene," Watson says. "I just left." Teddy Pendergrass". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. June 4, 2019 . Retrieved July 3, 2019. Only eight days before his 32nd birthday, Pendergrass was home in Gladwyne, an affluent suburb of Philadelphia, for a little rest and relaxation before preparing for a photo shoot, commercial, and HBO special. He had decided to hang out with his friend, Yvette, at the Elan, a popular club in Philadelphia. “He relates in the book that after socializing for a while, a woman approached Pendergrass and reminded him that they had met before at his 30th birthday party. She joined them. As the evening progressed, Yvette reminded Pendergrass she had to be home early. Not wanting to be rude, he asked the woman to ride with him to take Yvette home. The fatal accident occurred after leaving Yvette’s home.” Mystery Woman' Involved In Teddy Pendergrass' Paralyzing Accident Speaks Out, 30 Years Later (VIDEO) PGN: Happy memories? TW: The Christmas I was reunited with my family in 1962. I was 10 and had been separated from my family for a time. It was the best Christmas ever to be with them again. And when I got clean and sober. A friend of mine named Phil from the Westbury Bar took me to an AA meeting and it saved my life. I’ll be 14-years sober in June.
The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time". Rolling Stone. January 1, 2023 . Retrieved September 8, 2023. My family and friends are angry because of what they've read in the papers about me." she said. "What really upset me was the fact that the papers made me out to be some animal or demon and that I was not a God fearing person."She said about Pendergrass at the time. "I was concerned about him. I was concerned if he was really hurt. I feel about him as I do about any other human being. I thought we were both going to die." With Teddy, we realised it was all about sex,” says his manager Shep Gordon at one point in new doc Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don’t Know Me. Gordon didn’t have to do a lot of market research to come that conclusion: Teddy Pendergrass oozed sex – in his music, in his stage act, in his lifestyle. He was the Godfather of Sex. His music, especially at the peak of his solo career, was very much in the groove of smooth, seductive soul, powered by a husky, passionate-yet-effortless baritone. “One guy said to me: ‘Teddy Pendergrass was an early form of Viagra,’” says Olivia Lichtenstein, the documentary’s director. “And all the guys loved Teddy because he’d get the women in the mood for them. ” Sometimes, being a woman of color in society, you can feel like your voice isn't heard. You can feel like your opinions or your views don't matter," she says. "We do have an obligation to make sure that voice is heard." Watson, a former prostitute, told OWN that she was working as a nightclub entertainer and model when she saw Teddy again at a popular club in Philadelphia.
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