Colin Covert on Forest: Timber!
Posted on February 25th, 2007 – 11:12 PMBy Sara Glassman
Forest Whitaker collects the Oscar, the fourth African-American to win, following Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington and Jamie Foxx, and brings closer the day when we stop counting how many black actors have won the award. It was a towering performance, no question, but re-viewing the movie recently, I was struck how little screen time he actually had. His presence was so strong that even when he was offscreen, you felt that magnetism.
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