'Then Sammy tries to pick me up,' she says. Her role in the show is a small one, an ad-libbed skit in which she goes onstage between numbers, clad in a pair of superhigh platform shoes and an appropriately tight-fitting gown, and takes Sammy a drink. Louis with him on Monday.' As a member of the Davis troupe, she has toured to Chicago, Miami Beach, Honolulu, Las Vegas, New York and dozens of other cities. I was hired on a Sunday and was working in St. He took one look at me in the flesh and that was that.
'It just so happened,' Azizi says, 'that Sammy was looking for a dancer at the time I found out about his hang-up with my poster. Then one day, she bumped into one of Davis' musicians, who told her all about it. But at the time, she had no way of knowing that the poster would strike the fancy of Sammy Davis Jr., travel with him from tour to tour and hang in every one of his dressing rooms, that her face, in effect, would be Davis' constant companion for two years. It was a simple enough picture - her face, encircled by a huge Afro, coming out of a cloud of smoke. Several years ago, when model Azizi Johari posed for a poster titled Supernatural Dream, she had no idea what it would lead to.