Smokey Steaming Over "Dreamgirls" Diss

1. Here, here.
Listen to your elders.
They know. Go Smokey. Good for you for putting this out there.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Is Dreamgirls movie fiction, fact, or 1/2 & 1/2?
Loved everything Barry Gordy put out there. It MADE the 60's. Ask anyone.

Posted at 4:50PM on Jan 26th 2007 by Regardless

2. Yo Smokey, it's a work of fiction. Chill out. If you want historical accuracy, watch a documentary.

Posted at 5:08PM on Jan 26th 2007 by Nowonder

3. I believe Gordy DID try to help bands in the beginning. So? Then he got very rich, too big for his britches, and had people killed, including one of the original Supremes, or tried with her, I don't remember. But he had others killed.

Posted at 5:18PM on Jan 26th 2007 by Farrah

4. I'll bet Jimmy Hoffa started out all full of ideals, also.

Posted at 5:20PM on Jan 26th 2007 by Puh der Baer

5. Smokey,
can you say a work of fiction loosely based on the Supremes and Motown. By the way, why wasn't Smokey making his negative comments 25 years ago when Dreamgirls was an acclaimed Broadway play. I think he's just trying to get his name back out there!

Posted at 5:33PM on Jan 26th 2007 by Dryer

6. Blah, Blah, Blah
Its always something about heritage!!!

Posted at 5:49PM on Jan 26th 2007 by A mother

7. Love Smokey..... love Motown .... love Dreamgirls = it's entertainment!! No where has it been stated that this is a FACTUAL story about Motown/Supremes, et al. And even if it were, why jump on the ACTORS??? THEY didn't write it! Love ya, Smokey, but chill!

Posted at 6:08PM on Jan 26th 2007 by ryan

8. Ironic how Ms. Ross used the current press to conveniently drop an album. Does Mr. Robinson have one in the works? BTW the movie is GREAT!!

Posted at 6:32PM on Jan 26th 2007 by how true

9. Yo Smokey, it wasn't a documentary on Motown.

Posted at 6:35PM on Jan 26th 2007 by Tasha

10. I haven't seen the movie so I don't know how they protrayed Barry Gordy Jr. I do know I grew up listening to the sounds of Motown..........AND LOVED IT . Smokey Robinson is a great talent and knows the facts about the true character of Barry Gordy Jr. He was there and he lived it.

. I think it's fine if he wants to " set the record straight ". However.......I think the general public knows that writers embelish and dramatize actual events and people's dispositions to made the motion picture more entertaining.

At least he's a man of loyality and I think we all wish we had a friend like that. He is still watching his buddy's back .........long after he died. GOOD FOR YOU SMOKEY. Just telling it like it is.

Posted at 6:43PM on Jan 26th 2007 by The wise old owl

11. I am getting so tired of hearing about this movie! You think they was the only black people that ever made a movie, did you notice at the awards the other night Jamie Fox only called out to the blacks. He can say the N word and make fun of the big O but no one else can. No wonder we still have problems out there with blacks & whites. I have many black friends and they are also getting tired of hearing about this movie too! Can we all just get along?

Posted at 7:07PM on Jan 26th 2007 by I love America

12. I also was under the impression that this was loosely based on the Supremes..I have heard enough from the original Broadway actors. They are constantly talking about how they weren't consulted, had no input, YADAYADA..Look, they wanted to make a movie version and I don't think there was any law that it had to be EXACTLY like the original version..Smokey, come on, let it go.

Posted at 7:37PM on Jan 26th 2007 by melissa

13. Explain to me how the stars of the film "belittled their history"?..Don't get it..IT'S A MOVIE!!!..IT'S NOT CLAIMING TO BE FACT!!!..Smokey's comments make no sense.

Posted at 7:41PM on Jan 26th 2007 by brenda

14. Oh for God's sake, this is "loosely" based on the Supremes and Motown--Smokey needs to get over himself. People should jump on him for the ridiculous facelift he has that makes him look like a cigarstore Indian--talk about putting out "false information." I guess he's trying to ignite his long dead career.

Posted at 7:47PM on Jan 26th 2007 by Ariel

15. To the viewers of this movie...it came across as an amalgamation of many many lives in the music industry over the past 40 years.
All of us feast to know the true history of Blacks in the music world of Motown. If anyone can put a stage and movie performance together to set us all straight....what better star and historian of the old R&B. Pop, Detroit sound than our legendary Smokey Robinson.? His comments say that he can and should do this at once.
Everyone wants to work, be needed, and to perform. What better opportunity than to work with the great Mr. Robinson, from writers, to celluloid to get it right once and for all. Most performers including writers etc. would work for little to no salary at all for this fantastic opportunity.

Posted at 7:50PM on Jan 26th 2007 by k. early