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Raven Goodwin to star as Hattie McDaniels in ‘Behind the Smile’ : TheGrio
Raven Goodwin to star as Hattie McDaniels in ‘Behind the Smile’
The ‘Being Mary Jane’ star will play the first African American to win an Oscar
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Being Mary Jane actress Raven Goodwin is set to star in Behind the Smile, a biopic on legendary actress Hattie McDaniel.
Goodwin will play the iconic trailblazer who made history as the first African American to win an Academy Award. In 1939, McDaniel won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for her role as Mammy in Gone With The Wind and appeared in over 800 movies in her career.
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“Hattie YOU did it. Because of your legacy, we are able to write and portray OURSELVES in whatever light we choose,” Goodwin said in a statement to Deadline. “I am forever honored. I look forward to bringing this important historical and relevant life story to the screen.”
Behind the Smile is being produced by Jami McCoy-Lankford of Hillionaire Productions and Global Genesis Group. Gregory Daniel penned the script.
“Raven Goodwin is such a phenomenal talent and a gift to this project,” added McCoy-Lankford.
“In our first meeting on Zoom, she already showed the kind of passion that is befitting such a complex and iconic character as Hattie McDaniel was.”
Goodwin most recently starred in another biopic, The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel, and had a recurring role in SMILF.
“It’s exciting to be involved in telling the story of a woman who is a part of American history as well as movie history,” added Rick Romano, President of Global Genesis Group.
“Now, more than ever, in a still divisive time in our country’s relationship with race, the story of Hattie McDaniel is meaningful and current. Individuals such as Hattie McDaniel were trailblazers in their struggle for equality, and their stories need to be told for our country’s understanding of inclusiveness and tolerance. We are thrilled to have Raven Goodwin play Hattie McDaniel and provide an honest look into the triumphs and tragedies of her life.”
Watch McDaniel receive her Oscar below:
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It’s a Wrap: Paris Honours Bulgaria-born Christo’s ‘Crazy’ Dream
The Triumphal Arch in Paris will be looking very different between September 18 and October 3: “L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped”, the posthumously realized work of visionary contemporary art duo Christo (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009), will see the landmark monument in the French capital covered in recyclable silver-blue fabric.
“This is the achievement of a 60-year-old dream, a crazy dream come true,” French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, during his visit to the location.
The public art project has been in different stages of development ever since 1961, when Christo and Jeanne-Claude first sketched out the wrapping of the arch.
Christo was born Hristo Yavashev in 1935 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. Opposed to the postwar Communist regime, which nationalised his father’s textile business, the family moved to Plovdiv in the early 1950s.
Frustrated by the limited possibilities for experimental art amid the rise of social realism at Sofia’s National Academy of Arts, in 1956 Yavashev migrated illegally to Prague and then to Vienna.
“I am an artist and I want to do art that’s impossible to create in Bulgaria”, he wrote to his brother Anani in the same year. He later settled in Paris in 1958, where he found his partner, wife and creative collaborator, Frenchwoman Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon.
Over the next decades, Christo and Jeanne-Claude would be known for their grand-scale, environmental, temporary and always privately sponsored works, often preceded by years of planning and negotiations, eventually drawing millions of visitors to their installations.
These include works such as Valley Curtain in Australia in 1972, The Umbrellas in the US and Japan (1984-1991), The Pont Neuf Wrapped (1985) in France, Wrapped Reichstag (1995) in Germany, and The Gates (2005) in the US.
The duo lived in New York from 1964.
After Jeanne-Claude passed away in 2009, Christo continued their ideas for the next decade, keeping both their names attached to every project. His last projects were The Floating Piers in Italy (2016) and the London Mastaba (2018), both decades in the making.
He died in 2020, while still working on the wrapping of the Triumphal arch, with Christo’s wishes for the project to be finished by his collaborators, which include his nephew, Vladimir Yavashev.
The creation of the current project can be watched live on YouTube. The event coincided with various retrospective exhibitions in France and Bulgaria, with Sofia City Art Gallery hosting an exhibition of photographer Wolfgang Voltz working with the duo since their early days and currently documenting the wrapping of the Triumphal arch.
The project’s history is also covered in a new book of photography and drawings by publishing house Taschen.
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Daily Wire Sticks It to Woke Razor Companies, Launches ‘Jeremy’s Razors’ With Hilarious Commercial
Our friends over at the Daily Wire have been expanding like Lizzo’s already bloated waste line, expanding into sports and dropping several original films. But media isn’t all the Daily Wire crew is seeking to take back from the woke. And so, another addition to the conservative giant has been born: Jeremy’s Razors.
Aside from the occasional Backstage episode, people don’t often hear from the Daily Wire god king, but he’s there and just as enterprising as any of his podcast hosts. After Gillette decided to go super woke and the recent departure of Harry’s Razors from the shows’ ad rotation, Boreing decided enough was enough, launching Jeremy’s Razor in defiance of the left, who calls men toxic and demands they tone down their masculinity.
The commercial for the new product line is incredible, and even if you don’t plan to buy some high-quality razors and shaving products, it’s well worth the watch!
Jeremy’s Razors: The Greatest Commercial Ever
I swear to God, I nearly lost it multiple times as I watched. The entire thing is funny and perfectly calibrated to upset the very leftists who ruined Gillette and Harry’s.
I don’t shave, really. I have a glorious beard, but even I’m thinking about grabbing a Founder’s Kit, which comes with a razor subscription service, too.
There’s absolutely no denying that Jeremy Boreing’s sales pitch is solid, too! At the close of the commercial, he says, “Stop giving your money to woke corporations who don’t think you deserve their product. Give it to me instead.”
The entire thing, just, bravo, Daily Wire guys! Maybe we can talk Steven Crowder into launching another product to combat the woke elitists. Didn’t Coca-Cola recently do something stupid? Maybe we should launch Crowder Cola! Maybe we should workshop this a bit before making a decision.
The Daily Wire might be onto something here, though. It’s time for conservatives to start providing what the left refuses to: a quality product without the propagandizing.
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