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Flesh and Blood in a Town of Vampires
By MARGY ROCHLIN
IN her first scene in HBO’s new vampire series, “True Blood,” Tara Thornton (Rutina Wesley) starts out reading while slumped on a patio chair at the Super Save-a-Bunch store, where she works, and then proceeds to dress down a petulant customer, slap her boss and warn him that her baby daddy would kick his teeth in once he got out of jail. “I’m not serious, you pathetic racist,” she says when naked terror floods her boss’s doughy face. “I know y’all are stupid. But do you have to be that stupid?” Then she makes her exit.
It isn’t a moment that cries out for subtlety. But Ms. Wesley manages to infuse it with some. ( Read more... )
Flesh and Blood in a Town of Vampires
By MARGY ROCHLIN
IN her first scene in HBO’s new vampire series, “True Blood,” Tara Thornton (Rutina Wesley) starts out reading while slumped on a patio chair at the Super Save-a-Bunch store, where she works, and then proceeds to dress down a petulant customer, slap her boss and warn him that her baby daddy would kick his teeth in once he got out of jail. “I’m not serious, you pathetic racist,” she says when naked terror floods her boss’s doughy face. “I know y’all are stupid. But do you have to be that stupid?” Then she makes her exit.
It isn’t a moment that cries out for subtlety. But Ms. Wesley manages to infuse it with some. ( Read more... )
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