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Currently Reading The United States vs. Billie Holiday Review: Scattered but Scorching, and a Must-See for Andra Day s Performance
Lee Daniels biopic showcases Billie Holiday as a searing political artist, persecuted for singing Strange Fruit.
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Director: Lee Daniels
With: Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes, Garrett Hedlund, Leslie Jordan, Miss Lawrence, Adriane Lenox, Rob Morgan, Natasha Lyonne, Da’vine Joy Randolph, Tone Bell, Evan Ross, Tyler James Williams, Blake DeLong, Dana Gourrier, Melvin Gregg.
The gifted and mercurial Lee Daniels, director of “Precious,” is one of the only filmmakers I can think of who would dare to drop a badass-diva moment of Billie Holiday violently slapping her spouse into the middle of an otherwise giddy celebrity-singer-on-tour montage. In Daniels’ “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” Billie, played with glamorous, blowsy, dagger-eyed force by Andra Day, has had
YARD & BAKE SALE
Curtin United Methodist Church is having their “Beat the Winter Blues” yard and bake sale at the church located at 305 Curtin Village Road, Howard The church is located near the Curtin Mansion and Ironworks property.
The sale will be on Friday, Feb. 26, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and again on Saturday, Feb. 27, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Donations will be accepted and info can be obtained by calling Larry at 814-355-9588. Please wear a mask and practice COVID safety procedures.
WINTER FESTIVAL
The Howard Cub Scouts and Boy Scout Troop 353 are planning a Winter Festival on March 13. The festival is free and will be held at the park beside the post office in Howard beginning at 11 a.m.
LIONS CLUB NEWS Howard Area Lions Food Bank distribution will be on Monday, Feb. 8, at the former Beech Creek Elementary School. Those residents living in Ce