Happy Birthday to Cherry Jones...
When I saw "Doubt" on opening night of the AFI Fest several weeks back, I was raving about how great Meryl Streep was in the role to anyone who would listen. Well, a ,lot of those people I told had seen the show on Broadway and the performance of Cherry Jones who had won a Tony for the role of as nun who accuses a priest of child molestation. They all said: "Nobody will ever be better than Cherry Jones!"
Well, even though Cherry didn't get to do her role in the film, she did get the part of the President of the United States in the long-awaited seventh season of "24" which we get a preview of in a two-hour film this Sunday.
Cherry is an out lesbian who has been in a long-term relationship with actress Sarah Paulsen (who will ever forget their terrific televised smooch when Jones won the Tony for "Doubt"?).
She turns 52 today.
Happy birthday to this great talent.
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Greg Hernandez authored Out In Hollywood for the Daily News from June 2006 to February 2009. He can now be found at Greg In Hollywood: www.greginhollywood.com
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