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    Viola Davis Wants to Be Honest With You

    ‘In Ma Rainey, every body’s fighting for their value, and the thing that holdsus back is being Black. I want ed people to see what lay in the heart of her being. Which is: I know my worth.’ Viola Davis Wants to Be Honest With You Viola Davis has a moment in “Ma Rainey’s Black […] More

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    We’re Not Used to Seeing Women Act This Way

    These women rewrote their own stories in brilliantly revealing new ways. They can’t afford to be anythingless than comp etent. Masks Off The biopic. What an awful genre. What an awful name for a genre. Awful because it sounds like medicine. Awful because it’s too easy to confuse the actor for the person they’re playing, […] More

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    Dear Academy: Please Give Cher Another Oscar

    ‘Moonstruck is special. It’s when everythi ng is right. And I can look back and remem ber so many moments of it. And it was because we were always together. And we really got along. Really, really got along. We just loved each other.’ Cher Everlasting Movies, ordinarily vehicles to transport us out of our […] More