One Night in Miami Review: A Complex, Powerful & Graceful Adaptation
Eli Goree as Muhammad Ali
Aldis Hodge as Jim Brown
Leslie Odom Jr. as Sam Cooke
Joaquina Kalukango as Betty Shabaz
Nicolette Robinson as Barbara Cooke
Beau Bridges as Mr. Carlton
Lance Reddick as Brother Kareem
Michael Imperioli as Angelo Dundee
Jerome A. Wilson as Elijah Muhammad
Amondre D. Jackson as L.C. Cooke
Aaron D. Alexander as Sonny Liston
One Night in Miami Review:
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The joke making the social media rounds in the wake of the Georgia Senate runoffs goes like this: “A Black man and a Jewish man walk into a bar in Georgia and the bartender says, ‘What’ll you have, senators?’”
Virtually every “walk into a bar” joke ever told is based on a premise of, “Now there’s something you don’t see every day.” And so it goes with films and TV series that use a real-life meeting between notable figures as a launching point for largely (or completely) fictional works of entertainment, whether it be The King and the President meeting in “Elvis & Nixon” (2016) or Queen Elizabeth’s conversations with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Crown” or even the recent “The Comey Rule” on Showtime, which re-imagines a dinner between the director of the FBI and the beleaguered president.
The potential pitfalls of a movie that brings together Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown for a night on February 25, 1964, seem so numerous,
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Jan. 14 Yo, is everyone as tired as I am? Time certainly feels like a construct at this point. How long ago was New Year s Eve? Did we even have a break over the holidays?
Every week (day?) seems to bring some new historic event for us to live through Donald Trump was the third president ever to be impeached, but noooo, he became the first (really hope that s only) to be impeached TWICE. To be quite honest, I m about ready for it all to chill out. Seeing as that s probably unlikely, I want to be sure to remind y all to take time in your day and throughout the week to breath, relax, and take a break from the daily inundation and pressures grinding us down.