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Although the actress appeared to be making the most of her time at the small event, she is currently prepping to work on several film projects.
Looking good! The actress wore a sleek black dress and a matching pair of high-heeled shoes while spending time at the event
Roberts is set to take the lead role in the upcoming drama Now I See You, which will be helmed by The Notebook s director, Nick Cassavetes.
The forthcoming feature will serve as an adaptation of Nicole Kear s 2014 memoir of the same name, with a screenplay being written by Marc Klein.
The story follows a young Yale student who suddenly learns that she is losing her eyesight and attempts to mke the most of the time she has before she is not able to see anymore.
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“The United States vs Billie Holiday” (MA)
ELEANORA Fagan, aka Billie Holiday, born on April 7, 1915, shares my birth date (but not years!). She died in 1959. It was not a happy life.
Written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, “Strange Fruit” protested American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans.
Director Lee Daniels delivers a 130-minute (including closing credits) abridgment of the last 12 years of the blues singer who defied FBI chief J Edgar Hoover by singing it.
Written by Suzan-Lori Parks, adapting Johann Hari’s book “Chasing the Scream”, the film has more bad guys than good ones. Chief among them was Harry Anslinger (Garrett Hedlund). The film’s closing credits show TV footage of JFK giving him an award for a lifetime of service. It’s fair to say that he killed Holiday who died handcuffed by the ankle to the foot of her hospital bed.