Stacey Dash, who played the immortally snobbish Dionne in Clueless alongside Alicia Silverstone, has long needed a comeback more substantial than a bootylicious King magazine cover. Now the 44-year-old actress is threatening to make a new break with VH1's first scripted series Single Ladies, co-starring LisaRaye McCoy and Lauren London. If this is "Sex and the City, but with black people" as McCoy herself seemed to suggest in an interview with Vibe, don't sign me up -- I need neither Samantha Jones copycougars nor endless lunching scenes in my life. But Single Ladies's main writer (read: an Oscar-nominated actress) proves there may be something more to Dash's comeback than a basic-cable riff on Carrie Bradshaw.
According to Vibe, Single Ladies is written by -- wait for it -- Queen Latifah. Sort of sad that the woman whose breakout album was All Hail the Queen, a fierce statement of individuality, has used the past decade to reinvent herself as a smiley spokesperson, pleasant actress, and a belter of standards. Her whole Trav'lin' Light sensibility discourages me here. But perhaps the combination of revived actress Dash and retooled writer Latifah will conjure some of their spark from the early '90s -- as sublimely bossy ladies whose conversational brass knows no precedent, even if one has been set by a tired HBO series.
ยท V Exclusive: Stacey Dash, LisaRaye, and Lauren London to Star in Scripted VH1 Show [Vibe]