WE HAVEN’T HEARD AS MUCH about the Oscars being “so white” this year because Will Smith has been the favourite to win the Best Actor award for King Richard (the biopic about the father of Serena and Venus Williams, below) practically since its first screening, and because Denzel Washington shines in Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog scores heavily on the diversity meter for being directed by a woman and depicting repressed homosexuality.
But the trouble with the Diversity monster, a Broadway musical created by four Jews (Bernstein, Sondheim, Laurents, Robbins), when it was first performed in 1957.
