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Cord Jefferson’s insightful satire of race and media, ‘American Fiction,’ lights up TIFF

By Jake CoyleAP Film Writer TORONTO (AP) — Fifty pages into Percival Everett’s “Erasure” Cord Jefferson knew he wanted to adapt it into a movie script. Halfway through, he began to see Jeffrey Wright playing the book’s academic protagonist, Thelonious “Monk” Ellison. By the time he was finished, he knew he wanted to direct it, […]

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