Jeffrey Wright News

The last thing anyone expects from an art fair in a resort town like Miami Beach is a shattering emotional experience.

What could have been a disaster - and what is a much vilified film in some circles - Julian Schnabel's Basquiat becomes a work of some fascination - precisely for the same reasons that could have been its downfall, and the reasons that fuel its detractors.

Meryl Streep shares a laugh with director Mike Nichols they pose with her trophies backstage during the 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, Sunday, September 19, 2004 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.

Set in the mid-1980s at the height of the AIDS epidemic, the plot follows characters ranging from an HIV-positive prophet to a Mormon housewife to the closeted lawyer Roy Cohn.

Jul. 14--ANY QUESTIONS that Jeffrey Wright may have had about the continued relevance of the NAACP were answered last year in a bar brawl in Shreveport, La.