Jheri Curl Cinema: Coming to America (1988)
When we decided to expand the focus of Jheri Curl June last year to include cinema, I knew there were two films I absolutely had to write about: Purple Rain and Coming to America....
Jheri Curl Cinema: Moonwalker (1988)
Like most human measures of time, Jheri Curl June is intimately tied to the cycles of birth and death. The month opens with the birthdays of two of jheri curl...
Jheri Curl Cinema: The Last Dragon (1985)
This year's Jheri Curl June Ladies' Week closes on a bittersweet note, because we're talking about Vanity: a tragic chapter in the jheri curl chronicle. Born Denise Katrina Matthews in Niagra Falls, Ontario,...
Jheri Curl Cinema: Purple Rain (1984)
Jheri Curl June is, of course, first and foremost about the music. But, as I wrote in this year's introductory post, jheri curl is also a profoundly visual form; it is,...