Post by Admin on Jan 8, 2015 19:57:23 GMT -4
Last night, the ambitious drama/musical ‘Empire’ debuted on FOX. In one of the flashback scenes, Lucious Lyon (played by Terrence Howard) beats his 6-year-old son for wearing his mother’s feminine things. The flashback was based on ‘Empire’ writer and director Lee Daniels’ emotionally troubled childhood.
In an interview with former CNN host Larry King last year, Daniels explained how his police officer father beat him and dumped in a garbage can after he wore his mother’s shoes and wobbled into the room where his father was playing cards with his cop buddies.
Daniels said the beatings had no affect on him. He said he came downstairs the next Sunday wearing his mother’s shoes and carrying her purse.
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