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This year’s Oscars suggests that streaming services are contributing to more female and more African-American directors telling stories they care about. Here’s how the nominees rate ...A singer in her first major movie role, Day plays heroin-addicted, beaten-up, FBI-hounded jazz singer and activist Billie Holiday. She swears, she’s a haunted soul in jail, she goes nude without vanity and she performs the classicand other songs convincingly.
Keep feeding the gender wars, you fools. 🙄