![]() ![]() "Queen" is not "Roots," and it sure isn't "Malcolm X" its scrappy heroine, black dialect and dialogue actually owe more to "Gone With the Wind." (Mammy tells Scarlett: "What gentlemens says and what they thinks is two different things. Both villains and victims come in all colors in this production: Queen, who calls herself Little Miss In-Between, is abused by blacks as well as whites, and a white character mouths anti-Semitism. Their affair is no secret to Colonel Jackson's wife, Lizzie. James Jackson Jr., professes undying love to Easter even as he prepares to leave the plantation to join the Confederate Army. In a startlingly romantic presentation of a relationship between a slave and her master, the slaveholder, Col. "This is your home it always will be," he tells the slave Easter, who later gives birth to his child, Queen. The opening scene of the CBS miniseries "Queen," based on the life of Alex Haley's half-Irish grandmother, shows a reluctant slaveowner protecting the woman he loves - a woman he also happens to own - from the condescension of his white friends. ![]()
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