“Finding Me,” the memoir by Rhode Island state flower Viola Davis, goes on sale this Tuesday, and it includes a searing account of her life growing up in Central Falls. Not surprisingly, it’s an Oprah pick and she has this excerpt: We were “po.” We almost never had a phone. Often, we had no hot …
In 2017 Viola Davis received her first Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Fences. Tonight our official state flower has a very good shot at adding a Best Actress Oscar to her groaning awards shelf, this time for playing the title role in another August Wilson work, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” …
Well this is very cool. Viola Davis, star of “How to Get Away with Murder,” will be going home with a statue as well. And home is Rhode Island . . . she said so in this Providence Journal interview. Davis, who still has family living in Rhode Island, said she hasn’t been back in …
Why not add a bar of Chocolateville to the party tonight and honor Central Falls Oscar nominee Viola Davis by helping out her hometown. We have covered this fundraising project already, the only difference now is that I’ve tried the stuff, and I’ve giving it two big fat thumbs way up! (Why does anyone even …
Rhode Island native Viola Davis has been nominated for the ‘Best Actress’ Oscar for her role in the movie The Help . . . or as Charlie Rose kept saying, Help. (Who did she play, Ringo?) Davis last made the local papers by helping out the cash-strapped library in her home town of Central Falls. …