6 posts tagged ‘taraji p henson’
Taraji P. Henson has no beef with Oprah: "What you’re not gonna do is pit two Black women together"
Fans of The Color Purple can rest assured that Taraji P. Henson and Oprah are not seeing red. “What you’re not gonna do is pit two Black women together—not on my watch,” Henson said of her rumored feud with the legendary daytime host and Color Purple producer in a recent interview with NBC’s Today. Read more...
Critics Choice Awards 2024 Red Carpet: Yes, There Was Another Awards Show This Weekend
The Emmys were on Monday night (after being rescheduled from September due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike), and the red carpet was, I’d say, a solid B minus. Perhaps those in attendance were a little pooped from the awards show they’d been at the night before: the Critics Choice Awards, which was held Sunday night. Read more...
A Sense of Mystery and Wonder in a New “Color Purple”
Blitz Bazawule’s second feature catches the novel and musical’s extremes of sorrow and joy, love and memory.
Mauricio Umansky Went Skiing With Anitta...
Happy Holidays from all of us at Jezebel. Our gift to you is that today, for one day only, we’re publishing TWO Dirt Bags. Read more...
The biggest snubs and surprises from the 2024 Golden Globe nominations
The Golden Globes are back, and while it’s too soon to say whether they’re better, the slate of nominations that Cedric The Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama announced Monday morning were genuinely promising. On a macro level, the Globes did a generally good job of highlighting both non-American, non-English-language… Read more...
Everything you need to know about The Color Purple
The Color Purple has had a fascinating journey through popular culture over the past four decades. Ever since Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was published in 1982, the story of a young Black woman struggling to find her voice in the Deep South during the early 20th century has been like a magnet for… Read more...