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Oak Cliff starlet to join Jennifer Hudson in new Aretha Franklin biopic, ‘Respect’

7/21/2021

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Respect, the upcoming musical biopic about the Queen of Soul, has a rising Oak Cliff star in its cast. Twelve-year-old Skye Turner will play a young Aretha Franklin in the film, due out Aug. 13.

The movie follows Franklin’s journey to find her voice in the turbulent social and political landscape of 1960s America. Jennifer Hudson picks up where Turner leaves off, taking over the screen as Franklin grows up


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#WASHED Director Jerod Couch Turned a 'Quarter Life Crisis' Into Emmy Nominated Series

7/19/2021

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Dallas writer and director Jerod Couch went from the start of a promising career at ESPN and the Texas Rangers to his lowest point in a short amount of time. He was still old enough to do something about it. He calls it his "quarter life crisis." 

If this sounds familiar to you, you're not alone. Millennials even have a term for it: "washed." The word comes from basketball great LeBron James, who once responded to a Twitter post from the L.A. Lakers announcing that he became the first Laker to score three straight triple-doubles in 32 years with the hashtag "#WashedKing."


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