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Lupita Superstar

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After reading an Entertainment Weekly article, “Black Star,   White Ceiling” about the lack of film roles for 2014 Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o I decided to add my two cents. I think it’s great that she’s got film roles in “Jungle Book” and now “Star Wars”. I love her modeling for Miu Miu. (I am hoping for her  a Vogue magazine cover too.) However following her Academy award win for “Twelve Years a Slave”, I just wish she had a starring role in a film worthy of her  talent and beauty. I think she’d be wonderful in a film of Pearl Cleage’s book, “What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day”, Toni Morrison’s book “Tar Baby”, Gloria Nayor’ s book ( she also wrote a screenplay at a Sundance Lab )“Mama Day”, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer prize winning play, “Ruined”. Or maybe a bio pic about a historical character like Hottentot Venus or Assata Shakur. If only someone in Hollywood could read… Upd