Sightings
That was Nicole Beharie and Bill Haney, the star and screenwriter, respectively, of the upcoming film “American Violet,” attending an advance screening Thursday in the library of Woodrow Wilson High School.
Why Wilson High? For the answer, we turned to at-large D.C. Councilman Kwame Brown, who helped organize the screening. A spokesman tells us that as chairman of the Committee on Economic Development, which oversees the Office of Motion Picture Development, Brown was contacted to help arrange the screening and promote the film.
This is the third screening Brown has hosted for students, but the first at a high school. The others, “The Pursuit of Happyness” and “The Great Debaters,” were held at the Gallery Place theaters.
“American Violet,” which also stars Alfre Woodward, Will Patton and Tim Blake Nelson, tells the story of a mother falsely accused of being a drug dealer in Texas. It opens locally next week.
Also spotted recently: Gen. David Petraeus dining at Sam & Harry’s steakhouse downtown Wednesday night.
