'The United States vs. Billie Holiday' Costumes Honor History With Contemporary Prada
Takashi Seida With her mesmerizing voice and powerful performance style, Billie Holiday’s enduring legacy stretches beyond her impact on jazz and popular music. Her song “ Strange Fruit,” based on a poem metaphorically describing a lynching, became a protest anthem in the years leading into the civil rights movement. But Holiday also battled substance addiction while dealing with a lifetime of abuse, and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI used this to relentlessly pursue and persecute her—as exemplified by the title of a new biopic about her life, Directed by Lee Daniels, the movie portrays th...
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