Viola Davis transforms into the Mother of the Blues for her award-winning role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — and while she delivers a powerhouse performance, former Ikette and soul singer Maxayn Lewis is the unsung hero of the film.

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That's right, the pop superstar who launched Bieber fever, spawned thousands of copycat swoopy-haired adolescent boys and wreaked havoc on the hormones of preteen girls everywhere has finally been ushered into adulthood as today marks his milestone 18th birthday. And obviously, we're not the only ones who have counting down. "Almost legal," Biebs himself tweeted yesterday. How will he celebrate? What will teenage hate symbol girlfriend Selena Gomez gift him? Will it be better than the gift from his manager?

Book of the dayPhilosophy booksReviewA bold new project reimagines freedom in the areas of art, drugs, sex and climate, forging a collective conversation about how to make freedom work for all Cancel culture jeopardises the freedom of art to disturb. #MeToo has stopped people experimenting with the erotics of passivity. Sobriety is freer than drug taking. It’s probably appropriate, in a book about freedom by one of our most radical and forward-looking thinkers, that the conclusions should be at once so adventurous and so unexpectedly old fashioned.

5/8 2019 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: David Owen Strongman Though they've been married sine 2008, Winter and Sanchez didn't share the screen until 2019's A Taste of Summer. And including their two children, Dylan and Sebella, was a major factor in their decision to work together for the first time. "We had talked about if and when we were going to act together," Winter told MediaVillage. "It had to be the right thing and something fun and cute that was a family affair, and that's what this was like.