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T
he United States vs. Billie Holiday starring Andra Day is the third film adaptation drawn from Holiday’s life story and the third that looks at Holiday through a prism of sensationalism, sordid or heroic, rather than as a groundbreaking musician who expanded and refined the possibilities of jazz.