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Breaking Baz: ‘The Holdovers’ Da’Vine Joy Randolph Pays Homage To Isabel Sanford’s ‘Weezy’; And How She Sacrificed Her Private Life To Her Career
Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers is set in the last weeks of 1970 and, if attention is paid, you’ll see Da’Vine Joy Randolph pay homage to Isabel Sanford, particularly how the tv legend wore her hai…
“She recently passed, but though it was New Orleans southern cuisine, she too ran her restaurant like a Michelin star and she wore starched whites because it said something to see a Black woman in this European chef’s uniform. What amuses so much about Mary Lamb is that here she is, working at this school of the “brightest of the bright” and she’s stuck with Hunham who’s into Latin and ancient civilizations; she had little education yet she’s the one who possesses common sense; She’s the one who sees Angus and Paul. And a person can just be,they can be messy and complicated.And so I have to be grateful for this to be a moment where I feel like people have always, in some way shape or form ,acknowledged the gift that i have and my ability to create these nuanced characters.”
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