Something to watch tonight: Thursday 3 July
The Butler (Daniels, 2013)
I have a fondness for Lee Daniels’ The Butler which isn’t just down to the two central performances I mention in my quote below. It’s also the distinctive and sometimes inspired casting of the various presidents who are waited on by Forest Whitaker’s Cecil Gaines.
In the still illustrating this newsletter, we see Robin Williams as Dwight D. Eisenhower. H…
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