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Apr. 20, 2021Hollywood MORE In “Godfather of Harlem,” Forest Whitaker plays Bumpy Johnson, a real-life crime boss from the 1960s. Photo by Myles Aronowitz/Epix.
Forest Whitaker has been in more than 75 movies including “Black Panther,” “Arrival,” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and he won an Oscar for playing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in “The Last King of Scotland.”
Now in the TV series “Godfather of Harlem,” he plays Bumpy Johnson, a real-life crime boss from the 1960s. The show follows his attempt to reclaim the power he lost to white Italian mob families while in jail. It also includes other real men of the era, such as Malcolm X, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, and Italian crime boss Vincent “the Chin” Gigante, who is Johnson’s nemesis.
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Aretha Franklin: Preacher’s Daughter
Aretha Franklin, born a musical prodigy, was nurtured by her father, Reverend C.L. Franklin, and his numerous houseguests of gospel and R&B renown.
Our recent glimpse of Tony Scherman’s biography in progress, I Gave My Heart and Soul to You: The Triumph of Aretha Franklin, told the story of how, when, where, and with whom one of 20th-century pop music’s towering geniuses recorded her signature song, “Respect”. This second excerpt takes us back to Genesis, as it were. “Aretha: Preacher’s Daughter” tells the story, in-depth, of a little girl’s immersion in the music of the Baptist Church.
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