The color purple has long been a symbol of royalty, creativity, and mystery. But according to science, it's also something else: a figment of our imaginations. While it looks just as real as red or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steven Spielberg’s “The Color Purple” celebrates its 35th anniversary this year. The film remains a cultural touchstone for ...

Maybe it was required reading in high school, perhaps you watched the Steven Speilberg-directed film in theaters or it's possible you became smitten with the story when you saw it as a Broadway ...

Image Credit: Steven Spielberg, Whoopi Goldberg in 'The Color Purple' (1985) (Image: Unilad, Warner Bros.) At the height of ...

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The Color Purple is an American masterpiece. “This story lives forever,” says Taraji P. Henson, quite emphatically. “It’s like Shakespeare. It’s never going to go away.” Henson, who plays Shug Avery ...

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The movie is based on the musical but still includes some very important themes. Lynnette is a culture expert, children's media consultant, on-camera host, and certified film critic covering the ...

A new take on The Color Purple comes to theaters on Christmas Day. This new adaptation is a musical drama that takes from both Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the subsequent Broadway ...

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