Feb. 26, 2017, 11 10 p.m. Naomie Harris was sitting in the Dolby Theatre near her "Moonlight" costars when the confusion surrounding Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway and the best picture winner broke out Sunday night.
Harold Ray Crews, a lawyer based near Kernersville, North Carolina, moonlights as the chairman of his state chapter's League of the South, a neo-Confederate network that wants the South to secede from the rest of the US and establish an "Anglo-Celtic" majority.
"Moonlight" drew near-universal acclaim and placed high on many critics' year-end lists.
Directed with superb control and insight by Jenkins, "Moonlight" achieves the near-impossible in film, which is to ground its story and characters in a place and time of granular specificity and simultaneously make them immediately relatable and universal.
(A proverb popular among scientists goes, "Pavilions near the water receive the most moonlight").
(A proverb popular among scientists goes, "Pavilions near the water receive the most moonlight"). When critics published their complaints in a Chinese-language supplement to the journal Nature, the government banned it.
When Shoma Uno completed his near-flawless performance to Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata," he kneeled on the ice at Honda Center as if he didn't have another breath or stride left in his body.
On most Friday and Saturday nights, there's drinking, dancing and good times at Moonlighting, a bar on Amsterdam Avenue near 85th Street that is popular with a young Latino crowd.
For a burlesque show called "Moonlight Follies," he unveiled a billboard near the casino showing a female posterior covered only by a G-string and beads.
Moonlight interference, but good detection.
