Cocktails with Yvonna

New York Times bestselling  author  (“What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day”, “Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do”)and playwright (“Blues for an Alabama Sky”, “Flyin West”), Pearl Cleage   and filmmaker (“Alma’s Rainbow”) Ayoka Chenzira   have teamed up to produce   the feature film adaptation of Pearl Cleage’s novel“, Babylon Sisters”. Single mother Catherine Sanderson has her hands full with her job helping immigrants, and a college bound daughter, Phoebe.     But when news journalist Burghardt Johnson blows into town, she finds her world turned upside down. Catherine impassioned, "I wondered if it was possible to be in love with a man and develop a vocabulary free of the responses that make every conversation a minefield of hurt feelings, half-truths, and dashed expectations." Not only do they have history, BJ enlists her help in a story on a female slavery ring operating in Atlanta.   Pearl Cleage fans agree with director Ayoka, “I love the flaws in the r

Oh I hope I  win a date with George Clooney .   Not only because he’s tall , dark and handsome but he’s committed to protecting   lives   and humanitarian aid in the Sudan   with the   Satellite Sentinel Project .   Inspired   by the paparazzo who trail his every move, George financed a satellite on Northern and Southern Sudan to watch   and respond to   human rights violations in the civil war torn   region . Did you know George donated his whole Nepresso paycheck to the Satellite Sentinel Project?   What a man!   The date begins with a stop at the Letterman Show and then you get to sashay with George down the red carpet premiere of his new movie, “ Monuments Men” . In W magazine George confessed that he hasn’t fallen in love.   So if I win I’ll BYOB the Limón cello after all it’s cuffing season .