The Color Purple

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For Danielle Brooks, best known as Taystee from ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ her debut Broadway role in ‘The Color Purple’ was a dream worth not sleeping for.

In her frantic final hours on network TV, the talk queen is mending fences with ex-friends (Whoopi, Roseanne). In this week’s Newsweek, Allison Samuels says it’s great television, but is it genuine?