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    A fairy tale fit for a Queen of Soul

    Mar 19, 2021 4 minutes
    By Judy Berman

    “I AM A PRINCESS IN A FAIRY TALE,” ARETHA Franklin announces in the first episode of It’s not a statement of fact so much as an act of magical thinking. Aretha (played with sparkling intelligence by Cynthia Erivo) is talking with the boundary-busting talent agent Ruth Bowen (Kimberly Hébert Gregory) about the public image she wants to create. The reality, at that point in the mid-1960s, is that Franklin is juggling a troubled marriage, a controlling father, a fraught relationship with two sisters who envy her success, and her duties as a 20-something mom of three—the oldest, Clarence,

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