Hollywood Mourns Cicely Tyson: One of Those Legends You d Hoped We Would Have Forever lmtonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lmtonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Viola Davis starred alongside Tyson in 2011 period drama The Help. Oscar-winner Davis said she was “devastated” by Tyson’s death.
“My heart is just broken,” she said alongside a picture of her hugging Tyson. “I loved you so much!! You were everything to me! You made me feel loved and seen and valued in a world where there is still a cloak of invisibility for us dark chocolate girls.
“You gave me permission to dream….because it was only in my dreams that I could see the possibilities in myself. I’m not ready for you to be my angel yet. But…I also understand that it’s only when the last person who has a memory of you dies, that you’ll truly be dead.
CICELY TYSON, probably best known for her pioneering role in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and credited for playing strong African American women, reportedly died on Thursday at the age of 96, the same week her memoir Just As I Am was published.
Gullak on SonyLIV belongs to TVF s new brand of soft nostalgia, family binge-watching, and small-town slowness Until recently, the binge was a necessarily solo activity. Now, however, we are in the middle of the ‘smart TV’ boom. Parents are looking for things they can watch at home, but with their children watching, too. Aditya Mani Jha January 27, 2021 08:02:31 IST Still from Gullak
Gullak is the Hindi word for a piggy bank but it is so much more than that. For middle-class, Hindi-speaking kids, the
gullak represents hope, the kind that is cobbled together through years of incremental optimism. In an era where flamboyant digital payment czars dance for their employees onstage, it may be difficult to imagine this degree of emotional significance attached to an innocuous coin box.
I have held my tongue for a long time, but nearly a month on and my feelings are still as strong as when this ridiculous show debuted. Except people are STILL talking about it. There is no respite for Bridgerton naysayers and I want to open up a safe space for us to finally breathe the words…Bridgerton sucks.
And yes, I watched the whole thing. With my mum. Which as you can imagine was particularly uncomfortable at times. But eight eps in and I was wincing at more than just the sex scenes. Everything that everyone else was dying for was making my skin crawl. Thank U Next but make it Regency. Make it post-racial (with a small line about race being all we need to explain this apparently) but entirely hinged on women’s oppression. Steal the main plot device of Gossip Girl and hope no one notices because it’s shrouded in a mahoosive budget and lots of lace and weird hairstyles. It just didn’t do it for me.