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Article: PINKETT SMITH IS TOO CHARMING FOR LOWBROW COMEDY.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 17, 1998
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Byline: MAL VINCENT, MOVIE CRITIC
WOO'' IS SO derogatory and humiliating toward women that one can hardly fathom that a woman, Daisy V.S. Mayer, directed it.
In one scene, a woman who is dressed as a chicken is made to ``peck'' crumbs off a naked man's chest.
The titled ``heroine,'' Woo, is such a selfish show-off that her blind date from hell, Tommy Davidson, comes across as a put-upon nerd. All this is presented as more or less what a man has to go through to get a woman.
But none of this erases the obvious star quality of the energetic and feisty Jada Pinkett, now Jada Pinkett Smith since her marriage to superstar millionaire comic ...