HBO's Bessie, the biopic about blues singer Bessie Smith starring Queen Latifah and Boardwalk Empire's Michael K. Williams, is set to air Saturday, May 16th, and since the Emmy race for TV Movie is so dire this year, I think it's safe to presume that a classy HBO production can and will walk away with every award it comes up for in this category- which will be quite a lot, based on this trailer. Once again, I hate, hate, hate that a movie telling a true story taking place in the past has to use modern music in its advertizing- would it be so out of place to hear maybe a Bessie Smith song in the trailer for a movie about her life, and not a Lupe Fiasco one? Would it?
