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In service of The Butler

By 2014-01-31T12:00:00

Lee Daniels’ The Butler

Pulling together the financing for an epic about the civil-rights movement was not easy, but Lee Daniels’ box-office hit The Butler has challenged conventional wisdom about audiences for African-American and political stories. John Hazelton reports.

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