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PEOPLE & ARTSTuesday 15 March 2016
Queen Latifah, Paula Patton eager
to see Saldana as Simone
In this June 14, 2015 file photo, Zoe Saldana attends the Los An- NICOLE EVATT she shouldn’t get to play she said Monday. “Clear-
geles Premiere of “Infinitely Polar Bear” held at Regal Cinemas AP Entertainment Writer the role, you know. But I just ly someone thought she
L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES (AP) — want to see it — you know, was perfect for it. She’s
Queen Latifah and Paula get rid of the hype and let’s an amazing actress, she’s
Associated Press Patton are putting aside go watch the movie.” beautiful and you haven’t
the controversy surround- Simone’s daughter and even given her a chance
ing the Nina Simone biopic, others have decried Sal- and you haven’t seen it
“Nina,” and waiting to see dana’s casting since she yet...
how Zoe Saldana does in took the part in 2012. Her “Imagine being in her shoes
the title role. skin was apparently dark- and enduring that,” Patton
While critics say it was ened for the role, and she said. “It’s not cool and it’s
wrong of producers to cast wears a prosthetic nose. not right. I think we have
a lighter-skinned actress to The Simone estate, which to be in a place where we
portray Simone, who cel- cooperated in making the celebrate each other and
ebrated her dark skin and Oscar-nominated docu- are kind to one another
traditionally African fea- mentary “What Happened, and say there’s all different
tures, Latifah and Patton Miss Simone?”, recently versions of the story and
are reserving judgment tweeted: “Hopefully peo- versions of an idea.”
until the film’s release next ple begin to understand In “Nina,” Saldana plays
month. this is painful. Gut-wrench- the Grammy-winning singer
“I think Zoe Saldana’s a ing, heartbreaking, nause- and outspoken civil rights
great actress so I am looking ating, soul-crushing.” activist, who struggled with
forward to it,” Latifah said Patton, though, said she’s depression and alcoholism
Monday at the premiere “not into negativity like after finding fame. David
of “The Perfect Match,” that,” especially since the Oyelowo co-stars as her
which she produced. “And film has yet to be released. stalwart friend Clifton Hen-
you know she is of African “I think it’s a horrible thing derson, who helped her re-
descent. I don’t see why to put that on somebody,” turn to music.q
‘Deep Blue’ by Randy Wayne
White is fast-paced thriller
This book cover image re- him as a marine biologist kin’s Bay, Ford realizes his
leased by G.P. Putnam’s Sons who sells specimens to enemies have tracked him
shows “Deep Blue,” a release schools and laboratories. down and are out for re-
by Randy Wayne White. What most of them don’t venge.
Associated Press know is that he’s part of a A former Florida fishing
shadowy black ops agen- guide, White is no stranger
BRUCE DESILVA cy — the go-to guy when to a fish story, and every
Associated Press a threat to national secu- Doc Ford novel reads like
Since he first appeared rity needs to be gunned an old salt telling a whop-
in “Sanibel Flats” in 1990, down, blown up or “disap- per. In this one, he manag-
Doc Ford, the hero of a peared.” es to work in, among other
series of thrillers by Randy For a quarter century, Ford things, terrorist beheadings,
Wayne White, has been liv- has managed to keep his a great white shark, a clev-
ing a double life. His quirky, two worlds separate, but erly concealed bomb, an
fun-loving neighbors in the they finally collide in “Deep evil genius, a boat chase,
hamlet of Dinkin’s Bay on Blue,” endangering the a violent storm and a sub-
Florida’s Gulf Coast know lives of everyone in Dinkin’s marine.
Bay. As always, the story is pop-
The trouble starts when ulated by familiar Dinkin’s
Ford is dispatched to the Bay regulars including,
Yucatan to assassinate an most prominently, Ford’s
American Muslim convert hard-drinking, pot-smok-
turned terrorist. The assign- ing, Buddhist pal Tomlinson.
ment goes wrong from the And as with every Doc Ford
get-go. Somehow, the ter- story, the writing is tight and
rorist and his allies knew the story fast-paced.
Ford was coming and laid This series isn’t for readers
a trap for him. Ford figures who prefer their plots to be
that out in time, goes for at least a tad plausible, but
the kill anyway and botch- fans of far-fetched thriller
es the job. heroes from James Bond to
He slips away and returns Jason Bourne will find a lot
to his quiet life. But when to like.q
armed drones buzz Din-
