The first look at the upcoming Nina Simone biopic is out, and it's reigniting objections to a light-skinned actress playing the dark-skinned civil rights activist and jazz singer. Criticism has dogged "Nina" since news broke in 2012 that actress Zoe If there was any doubt about how Nina Simone's family feels about the upcoming biopic … Read more
So when the powers that be decided they would create a biopic for the troubled, yet extremely talented and dark skin songstress, Nina Simone, we were excited. This means that Hollywood was confronting that threshold. But not so fast–because they cast Critics outraged that Zoe Saldana will play the late Nina Simone in an upcoming … Read more
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Actor Joseph Fiennes has reportedly been cast to play late superstar Michael Jackson in a British made-for-TV movie about a road trip Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando took after the September 11 attacks. Some Jackson fans are dismayed that a Movies about Amy Winehouse and Nina Simone are among five films vying for the … Read more
In this exclusive extract from his new biography, What Happened, Miss Simone?, Alan Light explains how the musician Nina Simone fell in love with her second husband, Andrew Stroud, in 1961. He became her manager and realised her dream of playing in How Eunice Waymon, an aspiring classical pianist, transformed herself into Nina Simone (the … Read more