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Monday, April 28, 2008
Frankie Reveals Keyshia Cole, And More
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The second season of Atlanta R&B singer Keyshia Cole’s BET reality series, “The Way It Is…” hits stores tomorrow, but here’s what’s in the special features, today.
There’s “Meet Keyshia’s Glam Squad” - a less-than-three minute introduction to her manager (already prominently featured in the show), and the people who do her hair, make-up and styling. (Thanks).
The deleted scenes are pretty good - especially the moment where Cole’s sister Neffe meets with her ex-husband, and he rather unemotionally tells her, to her face, he wants a divorce.
But as anyone who’s seen the show would expect, “Frankie Reveals” is just jarring. Cole’s recovering crack addict mother discusses what it was like to see herself in the first season, when her daughters visited her in prison. (“I wanted to throw a hammer through [the television]”…Everybody know how you look when you’re f-, tore up”). She talks about how she expected her superstar daughter to treat her. (“I knew she was going to roast me like a Planters peanut)”. She goes into their tenuous relationship now, and how she sometimes feels “she don’t love me, she feel sorry for me”. And in one of the more hilarious moments - actually in the deleted scenes — Frankie returns to the corner in Oakland, Cal. where she and her friends used to get high. Or as the often comical mother puts it, they were “smoking like broke stoves”.
Have you followed Cole’s reality show from the start? Think it was an honest portrayal of a family, or somewhat exploitive? Hope there’ll be a third season?
