If I Could Turn Back Time

Roberto Acosta of MLive reports:

"A Thursday, Jan. 5 article by The Hollywood Reporter states Cher will serve as an executive producer in the TV movie "Flint" along with Katie Couric, Neil Meron, and Craig Zadan.

"Meron and Zedon have worked on "The Wiz Live!" and "The Sound of Music Live!" as well as a "Steel Magnolias" remake on Lifetime. Barbara Stepansky has been chosen to write the script."

Flint Water Crisis: Crime and Sin

"As truckload after truckload of bottled water pours in; after the National Guard goes door-to-door; after Cher and Pearl Jam do their part; after Michael Moore tells it like it is to Larry O’Donnell; after thousands of parents take their kids in for lead testing; after Rachel Maddow and her crew pull up their equipment; after plumbers estimate and politicians fulminate, we still are left with one gigantic mess, and at the heart of it is a grave crime and sin."
— Jan Worth-Nelson, East Village Magazine

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Flint Water Crisis: What Took You So Long?

"The national media, along with various activists and celebrities, are suddenly obsessed with my beleaguered hometown of Flint, Michigan, after it emerged that state officials ignored clear signs of lead poisoning in the city’s water supply. Rachel Maddow is outraged. Erin Brockovich is on the case. Jesse Jackson is there to offer spiritual guidance. Cher—yes, Cher—called Michigan’s Republican Gov. Rick Snyder a “murderer” on Twitter for his alleged crimes against the former factory town that Michael Moore put on the map with Roger & Me.

"I don’t blame them and the rest of the country for being angry. I’m angry, too. Who wouldn’t be? But I have to ask: What took you so long?"

Read the rest here in Politico Magazine.