John Witherspoon Made Every Role Great Including METEOR MAN
John Witherspoon Back in the 1600s, the slaves used to make a type of griddle cake out of cornmeal. Cornmeal was the cheapest and most reviled type of flour back then. It was considered rough and useless since it didn't respond to leaven and had a gritty consistency. Most people wanted and preferred wheat flour. But African-Americans enjoyed the simple fried cakes made out of cornmeal and water. The cakes, known as "Hoe-Cakes" or "Johnnycake", fell out of favor in general but was popular in the South. Most people thought the cornbread was rough but black people loved them. It would later be used as an ad-lib by an actor. In 1987 Robert Townsend was making his self-financed film Hollywood Shuffle . It's a comedy about a young actor struggling in the film industry because of stereotyping. The young comedian wrote a completed script but the studio told him it wasn't long enough, The script was 50 pages and needed to be 90 pages. So he went to the California...