Star

Last week, appearing on the talk show The Real, director Lee Daniels said he cast a white woman in the lead role of his new Fox show Star, which is more fascinating than it is enjoyable, because "I felt that the country--instinctively, I thought--needed to heal. I think that this white girl is so fabulous that black people will embrace her and white people will embrace her." Cocked eyebrows are the appropriate reaction to this statement, but then cocked eyebrows are the appropriate and intended ...