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13 May 2008 9:03 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

When it was announced that a man professionally known as Diddy would be starring on Broadway in A Raisin In The Sun, it felt like a bad joke or the sort of comically preposterous project that would be name-dropped in a showbiz satire to spoof our culture's weakness for cheap gimmicks and the cult of celebrity. But Sean "Diddy" Combs has made a career out of proving skeptics wrong through hard work, savvy, chutzpah, and persistence. So it's an enormously pleasant surprise that Combs holds his own opposite a cast studded with Tony Award nominees in the TV movie adaptation of the Broadway production. It's even more surprising how well Lorraine Hansberry's venerable fixture holds up. Sure, it's corny, dated, preachy, stagy, and didactic, but it's also powerful, soulful, and graced with fine performances, even from superstars better known for prancing around in shiny suits than for delivering stirring monologues.

Nathan Rabin

1 article from 2008