100000 dollars to formulate this bureau and within anslinger and his way he always had some ulterior motive that he was working on and then you know in a malicious sort of way and that became make an example out of. out of billie holiday i mean previous to him being the director of the federal bureau of narcotics and somebody had asked him about marijuana before and he said oh it's harmless doesn't do you know it's calls way worse and then once he became the director of the bureau changed his views completely and used mass media. alter you know the. citizens of the us is views on it he has like 30 doctors of their view on even marijuana $29.00 said it's harmless one said it's the devil's drug and he ran with that and you know put it out there in the press and that was the beginning of him you know trying to become pretty much like a world you know czar on the war on drugs except the money i mean his mob you know what he was doing and in you know it was a he was a guy was some tricks up his sleeve there's nothing on a holiday. hello can there be searches in jail. or the me for asking

..# believing her performances of the lynching—themed ballad strange fruit to be a call to arms, anslingerr on holiday's case, with instructions to infiltrate her inner circle and bring her down. you've heard those lyrics. they provoke people. # blood on the leaves # and blood at the root...# written by pulitzer prize—winner suzan—lori parks and directed by lee daniels, who made precious and the butler, this retelling of holiday's story imagines a relationship between the singer and the federal agent sent to spy on her, understandable when he's played by the broodingly handsome trevante rhodes, who made such an impact in moonlight. it reminds them that they're killing us. yet focusing on this speculative conflicted romance ironically undercuts the more powerful narrative about holiday's role as of a voice of civil rights activism and the authorities�* desire to silence her by any means necessary. # ..the twisted mouth... it doesn't help that daniels, who's always been a gleefully unruly director, throws the audience several stylistic curveballs, careening wildly from stagey interviews to h

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believing her performances of a lynching—themed ballad strange fruit to be a call to arms, anslinger heard those lyrics. they provoke people. # blood on the leaves and blood at the root. written by pulitzer prize winner suzan—lori parks and directed by lee daniels, who made precious and the butler, this retelling of holiday's story imagines a relationship between the singer and the federal agent sent to spy on her — understandable when he's played by the broodingly handsome trevante rhodes, who made such an impact in moonlight. it reminds them that they're killing us. yet focusing on their speculative conflicted romance ironically undercuts the more powerful narrative about holiday's role as of a voice of civil rights activism, and the authorities' desire to silence her by any means necessary. # ..twisted mouth... it doesn't help that daniels, who's always been a gleefully unruly director, throws the audience several stylistic curve balls, careening wildly from stagey interviews to hallucinatory horrors and audacious musical interludes, giving the drama a disjointed episodic air. # .