“The Real Story of Darryl Simmons, Part 3 of 3” by David Theodore Richardson IIIIn third chapter of the story, the story takes place in the Thanksgiving season 1979, and due tohis giant well-to-do success in the music industry, Darryl decided to star in his third film,
Bernard Holiday
(released in the U.S. on June 13, 1980.), which the character is based upon Darryl,himself as a jazz musician, Darryl teamed up to work with Amelia Johnson, Ray Carpenter, Jr.and Howard Barrett Sutton, on producing the film. The casting of
Bernard Holiday
started in thesummer of 1979, where 174 million people auditioned for the female role as “Christina NorahDubois”, and they picked Teresa Nunez, to play Christina N. Dubois, Bernard’s lifelong girlfriend.“Bernard Holiday” was about a young jazz musician who had schooling, but quits school tobecome a famous jazz musician, and wins numerous awards before his death at the age of 86.Other characters included was Marjorie “Mary Jane” Vegan, the talent scout, played by RuthNapier, Percy Piston, Jr., an over-the-top owner of a record label, played by William “Billy”Rodney Chupardy, Ella, Bernard’s older sister, played by Nat A. Jones, Cleaver Donaldson,Bernard’s older brother, played by Tyrell Edmonds, and his mother was portrayed by MariaSanchez (Robinson).“Bernard Holiday” was released on June 13, 1980 by Paramount Pictures, and went on tobecome a worldwide success, but in its first week when audiences saw the film, it only grossed$14 million, in the second week (June 20, 1980), it grossed to $60 million, and in its third week itgrossed $72.4 million, and in the last four weeks it grossed a total of $100 million. The film wassuch a success, Darryl recorded, write, produced and sung hits from the film which were up-tempo R&B/Pop ballads: “I Won’t Be Afraid”, “Dreams Come True (Everyday)”, “I Need to Closeto You”, “Just Love in the Air”, and “All My Loving”, all these songs in the soundtrack and in thefilm became a giant-worldwide success as well, the album, however was released on July 4,1980, selling more than 250 million copies worldwide, and it peaked on the Billboard 200 at #14.The film was very successful that it was nominated for four Academy Awards® in 1981 (AcademyAward® For Best Actor, Academy Award® for Best Actress, Academy Award® for Best Picture,Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor/Actress®), although the film did not win any, it becamea top-grossing film. Coincidentally, Darryl Simmons would win his Academy Award® for BestActor in the comedy, “Welcome to America”, playing a French solider named Francois LeroyDubois, who speaks perfect English as well.In either of the early summer of 1981, Darryl recorded his giant successful album yet,
The Third Chapter
, Simmons’ album featured 16 tracks, exactly seven of them went on to score at theBillboard 100 and Billboard R&B charts, peaking at either the top 5, Top 10, Top 20 or Top 30, or Top 40. Neither of Darryl’s singles from the album was put on the Top 50 Hot Singles charts.Darryl released the single that would sell millions in November 1981, “Money Is Not the OnlyThing”, the single written, produced and sung by Darryl Simmons, earned him a Grammy®nomination for Best R&B Male Vocal Performance, again Darryl was nominated at the 24
th
Grammy Awards held in February, 1982 (“Song of the Year”, “Record of the Year”, “Best PopVocal Performance, Male”), which again he won all of them. Darryl appeared and performed atthe Grammy Awards® with such hit singles in a medley. The album,
Third Chapter
, was releasedon February 18, 1983, and sold more than 750 million copies, earning Darryl 10 Grammy Award®nominations for the album in February, 1985.
The Third Chapter
was Darryl’s third best-selling album by an R&B/Pop artist, when on January18, 1986; “The Guinness Book of World Records” puts
The Third Chapter
, as “The GreatScenario”, “The Ice Cream with Everything on It”, implying that the album has now sold1,492,905,179,892 worldwide in just three years. The ten Grammy Award® nominations camethrough in February 1986 – for the album and for Darryl, only winning nine of them. (“Best R&BMale Vocal Performance, “Best R&B Album”, “Album of the Year”, “Song of the Year”, “Record of the Year”, “Best Pop Male Vocal Performance”, “Best New Artist”, “Best R&B Singer” and “BestPop Singer”). Darryl became excited that after years of discovering he wants a Grammy Award®at a young age, he receives tons of it, and is appreciating it every day. In the summer of 1987,Darryl was even elected as President of
The Recording Academy
for the Annual Grammy
Awards® show, and won the election, spending over four years there until he resigned in earlyJanuary 1991.In the 1987—1988 era, Darryl moved back to New York City, and back his extreme rich lifestyle,there he meets a young woman named Luciana Love, who is only 29 years old, going on 30years old, so as the fact remains settle Darryl trusts his new
girlfriend
, but she takes advantage of him, without Darryl noticing knowing he is “desperately” in love with her, but she uses him as a“groupie”, so the get married on April 9, 1988, and the marriage lasts a year, annulled onFebruary 11, 1989. In the between these years, Darryl feels is being betrayed –- due to the factthat Luciana agreed to marry him cause “
she had nothing better to do.”
One day, Darryl goes intohis bedroom, and finds Luciana in his bed with a man, who he is a lot younger than he is, soDarryl threatens to lynch the man he is doesn’t get out of his apartment, Luciana calls Darrylterrible names such as “B.O.W.”, “SB”, “P.O.S.”, “DH”, this made Darryl very angry that hedecided to get a divorce, the divorce took almost a year and a half to be finalized. Darryl however was back again in the recording studio in LA to record his forthcoming album,
Rich and Powerful
,but during that time Darryl kept his rich fancy penthouse apartment in Manhattan, NY, and tomake sure nothing bad ever happened to it, he let his older sister, Suzanne to live in there untilafter the album was done, Darryl lend Suzanne a lot of money to pay for the giant apartment, bysending it in the mail with a total of $3,500. Suzanne discovered Luciana was suffering a nervousbreakdown, such as threatened to buy a Magnum® and take it to her room, lock herself in their,and shoot herself as well, also Luciana wanted to jump off the Empire State Building, legallyresponsible, Darryl took every single belonging he ever owned and purchased for a giantPenthouse Apartment in Hollywood, California, on the other hand, Luciana killed herself with LSD,and an overdose of recreational drugs on February 25, 1989, a week after conclude the divorcebetween Darryl and Suzanne. Her funeral was held in Washington Square Park, Manhattan, NYon February 27, 1989 and in her hometown of Detroit, Michigan on March 3, 1989.Darryl was very astonished that he divorce Luciana after only one year of marriage, so therefore,Luciana’s parents: George W.B. Love and Katherine “Katie” Love, stated while catching up withparents-in-law for dinner one night in LA: “
Luciana was a “very” special child, but was not altogether for the 30 years in her life, she dropped out of school to follow a career in Prostitution,and was arrested for request by 300,000 unknown men for “personal business”, and she owed them each $50 billion de Nero, if you know what I mean, but she could not clean up her life and had a child with a man who is only 19 years old who did not give a **** bout Luciana, so thereforeshe hid her own child for exactly 10 years, and still is a loser ever since her tragic adult life
. WhenDarryl had heard these words he felt asphyxiate about the death of his short-lived wife, whoannounces she was going to die.In 1990, Darryl written, produced and directed and cast himself as
Francois Leroy Dubois
in thesignificant comedy “Welcome to America”. “Welcome to America” tells the story of a recentlygraduated French army scientist/solider trying to find his real family, but the only way to get thereIs to take “NFAH” (National French Airport Headquarters), so Darryl was trained to speak with apresently French accent, and did well. The comedy was filmed in November 1991, and releasedworldwide on July 3, 1992, breaking the box office with $50 million in its opening week, but in thefifth week grossed approx. $200.7 million worldwide.On July 10, 1992, a week later, Darryl Simmons was invited to the United Nations Headquartersto give an important speech about poverty and wealth, this speech that Simmons made wasunbelievable and most delegates of the UN, agreed with him for the long run, however VicePresident of the U.S. Bernard Wilcox, Jr. stated that Simmons’ speech needed to be heard aswell, during the week, Darryl Simmons went all the way out of the U.S. and into Africa, which hediscovered over 200 million residents were out of money, food, among other things, he went tomake a collect call from Africa and all the way to the United States to donate over 200 millionsupplies for the victims, also he donated a lot of money to build and open up the first AfricanUniversity College across the country, the dream came true and when he returned back to his
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The Real Story of Darryl Simmons: Part 3 of 3
The Story is not quite over yet, but in the third chapter, Darryl does even a lot more, as you read the surprises happening in this story.
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