European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Perez flying High after jumping at a White men role Griffith on screen with a a stranger among us by Douglas j. Rowe the associated press lets play jeopardy the answer she stars As the disco Queen turned game show Whiz in Ron Shelton shit movie White men can t jump choreographs the Fly Giris on foxes comedy series in living color and co stars in Jim Jarmusch a new film night on Earth. The question who is Rosie Perez the Petite actress choreographer who recently took time off from filming a movie in Minnesota to promote Shelton a movie plays Gloria Clemente who Longs to appear on jeopardy even the a foods that begin with the letter a a category fails to stump Gloria who spends her time memorizing the world almanac and trying to keep her Hustler Boyfriend Woody Harrelson in line. A just to even meet Alex Trebek. I was like a Ron Ron there goes Alex Trebek. I can to believe you got him a a she said referring to the Host of the game show that supplies the answers and seeks the questions. Perez whose conversation is peppered with Street Slang thinks a Alex Trebek is she thinks Shelton and his attitude toward women Are a a Large too. A Iron Shelton writes for women like no other Man i know in regards to like a screenwriter a said Perez who admires the Strong character of Annie Savoy the woman who considered baseball a religion in Shelton a Bull Durham. A the understands women better than any Man i know because of the fact that he understands that a woman can be slightly psychotic but still in control of everything and just because she goes off on tangents and May cry at a drop of a hat does no to mean she san emotional wreck. A it just Means that she Felt like crying. And she can be All different things a still a Little girl but then be in control of every Type of relationship and situation. Ron has this philosophy done task Why just go with it because its Gonna pass. Its just one of those female she refers to the movie when the Wesley Snipes character Sidney Deane advises Harrelson a Billy Hoyle a Billy listen to the Billy wonders if he must understand every thing while he a listening. Sidney says simply a a that a Ron Shelton talking a she said laughing. She thought it was a great role because she says a i was funny sexy. I got to be neurotic. I got to just go off on these like tangents. It was just a very Well written role for a woman. A and in a glad that he cast cd me because it was originally for a White the role originally was written for a Bluc blood new englander not a hispanic. Her audition convinced Shelton that a slight rewrite was in order. All he did though was change the characters last name and ethnic origins the Brooklyn native said. A instead of Boston Ivy league she was a Brooklyn disco Queen a said Perez. A but what was great about it she was still we cell versed. She was very intelligent. And she followed All of the characteristics that the original Gloria had. The dialogue never changed and the Story line never Perez who maintains her age is a none of your business a intends to continue her heavy Load of choreography. She has choreographed Tours or videos for the boys Al Debarge Diana Ross la Cool j and a1 b sure among others. She also works As segment director music coordinator and booking agent for in living color. She likes to work behind the scenes explaining the new York times Rosie Perez says she a smart a but i am a if i allow my ego to take Over then i can t do my Job correctly. A with the Fly Giris its All about the Fly Giris. They have to Shine. If i was to dance with the Fly Giris it would take away everything because i would say a All right the most important person to come off is me a a she said laughing. A my ego would just get in the Way. So therefore i just have to really step Back and i have to be the whatever she does Perez wants to make sure she a say what after saying that she should Wear a to shirt with her definition of the word to every interview she said the word Means that a particular person place or thing is a to the ultimate. The Best of what that thing can Quot lets say if you see a gorgeous Guy a she explained. A the is so gorgeous he is so Fine from head to toe the Way he dresses the Way he presents himself. You say a of he a Fly.�?T. A a that a Why Keenan Ivory Wayans in living colors creator and Host named the Fly Giris the Fly Giris because he wanted to get women who were not Only great dancers but looked great also had a lot of Charisma which is needed when you re trying to sell a television show and also were great people Perez made her film debut in Spike Lee s do the right thing dancing during the opening credits and playing Tina Leeds Girlfriend. But Shell have you know that character was a so far fetched from who i am Quot whereas aspects of Gloria parallel the real life Perez. For example a slight then she implored in a mock coquettish was Quot done to print that More seriously she said a i am a brain. I m very smart. I done to think in Mas neurotic As Gloria because if i had a Friend like Gloria and she went on one of her tangents about a the world is an organic globule a i would be like a of shut up. Get away from a but i am psychotic. One of my sex boyfriends told me that a Long time a and you believed him a she a asked. "1 knew he was right a she said laughing. By United press International Disney a Buena Vista pictures distribution will release Melanie Griffith a new movie under the title of a stranger among us discarding the working title close to Eden. The film directed by Sidney Lumet made its debut As an official entry in the Cannes film festival Competition two weeks ago. Written by Robert j. Avrech and produced by Steve Golin Sigurjon sigh Watsson and Howard Rosenman a stranger among us finds Griffith playing a new York City police detective working undercover in the hasidic project Danny Devito will Star in and produce Low lives a comedy for his new Jersey films production company. Low fives recounts the adventures of a pint sized College basketball scout Devito who fulfils his lifelong dream of becoming a head coach when he recruits a superstar player from a third world country. Low fives follows Devito a co starring role in Batman returns to be released june 19, and his directing assignment for Hoffa a drama based on the late teamsters Czar Jimmy animator Veteran animation production executives Lee Gunther and Michael Wahl have joined forces to produce two half hour Carlo on series scheduled for broadcast this fall. Currently in production arc the wild West of of Moo Mesa for Abc to and 1 he adventures of for first run syndication. The wild West of of Moo Mesa is a cartoon horse opera populated by a collection of Good and bad talking bovines who walk upright on their Hind feet. The adventures Oft Rex is a comedy fantasy featuring five Young Dinosaur siblings w to go undercover to thwart the injustices of an evil play author Ray Bradbury a next in line a new Plav in two acts made its world premiere at Hollywood a new Ivar theatre two weeks ago. Next in line is the first official collaboration Between Bradbury . Stebel and Charles Rome Smith who have been friends and colleagues More than 35 years. The production stars Peter Mark Richman and Nancy Dussault As a couple on a trip to Mexico who Are locked in a mortal struggle about what their Mai ring really Means. A Bessie biography Richard and Fini Zanuck will produce Tomc a biographical movie based on 1920s blues Singer Bessie Smith for Mem. Australians Bruce Beresford will direct the 520 million picture featuring the singers risque Brand of music beginning in september. The script by Horton Foote will be filmed on in a Lions in Chicago new York and throughout the South tracing Smith s Rise from an impoverished childhood in Tennessee to her first recording of downhearted Bines in 1923, which catapulted hot it stardom. May 24, 1992sunday a
