In 1973 Texas cleaning woman Norma McCorvey became the most famous woman in America when her attempt to obtain an abortion became the impetus for the court case known as Roe v. Wade. The case is one that everyone has an opinion on and it is near impossible to divorce personal feelings from a given work, whether that be a book or documentary on the subject. So director Nick Sweeney’s attempt at neutrality with his documentary “Aka Jane Roe” is admirable, but at times impossibly baffling.
“Aka Jane Roe” sells itself as an attempt for Jane Roe herself, McCorvey, to set the record straight about her life. McCorvey was a poor woman who’d already had a child, had a second on the way, and became the face of the biggest court case to affect women since the 19th Amendment. After that, she became a born again Christian, working with...
“Aka Jane Roe” sells itself as an attempt for Jane Roe herself, McCorvey, to set the record straight about her life. McCorvey was a poor woman who’d already had a child, had a second on the way, and became the face of the biggest court case to affect women since the 19th Amendment. After that, she became a born again Christian, working with...
- 5/22/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
For obvious reasons, this Memorial Day weekend is going to be a bit different from previous years. But the good news is, you won’t have to experience Fomo for skipping out on the barbeque-and-beach days in order to stay inside and watch TV instead. That decision has been made for you. There will even be some live sports to watch, like a Nascar race and a socially-distanced golf match between Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Peyton Manning. So allow us to list out the best options for what to watch (or stream) on TV (or your laptop) this weekend.
Friday: “The Big Fib” on Disney+
This game show with kid contestants premieres Friday on Disney’s new streaming service. Hosted by Yvette Nicole Brown and featuring Rhys Darby as her robot sidekick, C.L.I.V.E., the kids must decide whether the information they’re being told is fact or fib.
Friday: “The Big Fib” on Disney+
This game show with kid contestants premieres Friday on Disney’s new streaming service. Hosted by Yvette Nicole Brown and featuring Rhys Darby as her robot sidekick, C.L.I.V.E., the kids must decide whether the information they’re being told is fact or fib.
- 5/22/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
This spring, FX’s “Mrs. America” has depicted the fiery intellectual battles among the modern feminist movement, with Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, and Bella Abzug ricocheting against one another and against a conservative backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly. These women are relentlessly articulate, strategic, with crystalline points of view about what they want to achieve for themselves and for all women. They comprise a group in which “Jane Roe” — at the center of perhaps the most crucial of victories for the 20th-century feminist movement — would have no place.
Norma McCorvey, the subject of the new documentary “Aka Jane Roe,” is a canny observer of her own experiences — which mainly consist of having been moved around the gameboard of American politics as a pawn. Speaking to director Nick Sweeney’s camera from her nursing home in the months before her 2017 death, McCorvey describes the experience of being drawn in...
Norma McCorvey, the subject of the new documentary “Aka Jane Roe,” is a canny observer of her own experiences — which mainly consist of having been moved around the gameboard of American politics as a pawn. Speaking to director Nick Sweeney’s camera from her nursing home in the months before her 2017 death, McCorvey describes the experience of being drawn in...
- 5/20/2020
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
The late Norma McCorvey, better known by her pseudonym “Jane Roe” which she used in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, has revealed that she was paid by anti-abortion groups to speak out against the law that her case created in an upcoming documentary.
Portions of “Aka Jane Roe,” which premieres Friday on FX, were filmed in the months prior to McCorvey’s death in February 2017. In it, McCorvey gives a “deathbed confession” saying she pivoted to speaking against abortion rights because she received payment from groups such as Operation Rescue.
“I was the big fish,” McCorvey says. “I think it was a mutual thing. I took their money and they’d put me out in front of the cameras and tell me what to say. That’s what I’d say… It was all an act. I did it well too. I am a good actress.
Portions of “Aka Jane Roe,” which premieres Friday on FX, were filmed in the months prior to McCorvey’s death in February 2017. In it, McCorvey gives a “deathbed confession” saying she pivoted to speaking against abortion rights because she received payment from groups such as Operation Rescue.
“I was the big fish,” McCorvey says. “I think it was a mutual thing. I took their money and they’d put me out in front of the cameras and tell me what to say. That’s what I’d say… It was all an act. I did it well too. I am a good actress.
- 5/19/2020
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Norma McCorvey, the once-anonymous “Jane Roe” in the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, revealed she only switched sides to oppose abortion rights because she was being paid by anti-abortion groups.
“I think it was a mutual thing. I took their money and they put me out in front of the cameras and told me what to say. That’s what I’d say,” McCorvey, who died in 2017, admitted in FX’s upcoming documentary “Aka Jane Roe.” “I did it well, too. I am a good actress. Of course, I’m not acting now.”
In 1970, McCorvey filed a lawsuit requesting that she have the right to safely and legally end a pregnancy in Texas. The case ultimately made it to the Supreme Court and, in 1973, the court ruled 7-2 that citizens had the constitutional right to an abortion.
Also Read: Mark Ruffalo Defends Abortion Rights in Poignant Video Honoring Roe v.
“I think it was a mutual thing. I took their money and they put me out in front of the cameras and told me what to say. That’s what I’d say,” McCorvey, who died in 2017, admitted in FX’s upcoming documentary “Aka Jane Roe.” “I did it well, too. I am a good actress. Of course, I’m not acting now.”
In 1970, McCorvey filed a lawsuit requesting that she have the right to safely and legally end a pregnancy in Texas. The case ultimately made it to the Supreme Court and, in 1973, the court ruled 7-2 that citizens had the constitutional right to an abortion.
Also Read: Mark Ruffalo Defends Abortion Rights in Poignant Video Honoring Roe v.
- 5/19/2020
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Wrap
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