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The rags-to-riches story of your groundbreaking, beloved entertainer. When The Turn Wilson Show debuted in 1970, dark faces were still unusual on television, dark hosts nonexistent. Just how do Clerow "Flip" Wilson go from Shirt City grade-school dropout to countrywide celebrity, heralded on the cover of Time as "TV's first dark superstar"? Turn is a candid, enjoyable biography of your consummate comedian who transformed the facial skin of American popular culture. Kevin Make meals chronicles Flip's meteoric surge through the Chitlin' Circuit of segregated nightclubs to his breakthrough on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show to his hit variety show, which he created such outrageous and amusing characters as the sassy Geraldine and flock-fleecing Reverend Leroy. Among the biggest actors of his time, he performed and partied with Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, and other actors of the 1970s. Sketching on interviews with family, friends, and stars, Cook delivers the inspiring story of a intricate man who broke the prime-time color barrier, blazing a trail for decades of African American performers who followed him.
