Sammy and Dino Episode 7: Yes I Can
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Golden Boy - Sammy Davis Junior
Sammy was excited to go back to broadway. He pushed to make room in his schedule for golden boy against the protests of his agents. Gibson thought that what golden boy needed to do was not only tackle the state of american race relations circa 19 64 head on, it needed to put front and centre sammy davis junior's own complicated identity as a black man with a white wife. The last time he did a broadway show, he had essentially played himself and had had to drag his dad and will maston on stage with him. This was a chance for solo stardum, and it was a better role than he had ever been offered in movies. Rather than costing
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