With The United States vs. Billie Holiday streaming on Hulu, both longtime and new fans will likely be clamoring for more of the legendary jazz singer, who died in 1959 at the age of 44. Born Eleanora Fagan, Billie Holiday was among the targets of Federal Bureau of Narcotics head Harry Anslinger, whose racist agenda fueled a so-called crackdown on marijuana and heroin. That torment, as well as the music icon’s life, is the subject of the upcoming Lee Daniels biopic starring Andra Day as Holiday and Trevante Rhodes as undercover FBI agent-turned-lover Jimmy Fletcher.
- 2/16/2021
- by Danielle Directo-Meston
- Rollingstone.com
Michael Arthur tracks the made-up religion’s legal battles to raise questions about the essence of faith – and of satire
Representing what would be a solid second part of a double bill of docs about wacky religions to follow Hail, Satan?, Oregon-based director Michael Arthur’s I, Pastafari takes an amusing look at the followers of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Aka Pastafarianism. A relatively new but fast-growing addition to the field of made-up satirical religions, this serious-about-being-silly cult was basically invented in 2005 by a graduate student named Bobby Henderson. He wrote an open letter that went viral to the Kansas state board of education (which was debating whether to allow the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolution), demanding that the board also give equal time in classrooms to the study of how the Flying Spaghetti Monster created the world. Soon, other “worshippers” in effect crowdsourced instructional texts...
Representing what would be a solid second part of a double bill of docs about wacky religions to follow Hail, Satan?, Oregon-based director Michael Arthur’s I, Pastafari takes an amusing look at the followers of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Aka Pastafarianism. A relatively new but fast-growing addition to the field of made-up satirical religions, this serious-about-being-silly cult was basically invented in 2005 by a graduate student named Bobby Henderson. He wrote an open letter that went viral to the Kansas state board of education (which was debating whether to allow the teaching of intelligent design alongside evolution), demanding that the board also give equal time in classrooms to the study of how the Flying Spaghetti Monster created the world. Soon, other “worshippers” in effect crowdsourced instructional texts...
- 5/21/2020
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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