The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
It is a real treat to have the vocal performances of Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey (Reading) in an audiobook. However, despite the promise of the subtitle "A Witness to History", this is not so much about the life of Eugene Allen, but rather the story of Wil Haygood meeting George and Helene Allen, researching the article eventually printed in the Washington Post, and the making of the movie eventually by Lee Daniels. Basically, we learn the movie is promising historical fiction, a bunch of cursory allusions to Allen's fascinating life, and how moved Haygood was by the personal meetings...
...in a way, it is so cursroy and discursive to almost feel like a money grab, like the "novelizations" that sometimes follow successful movies.
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