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RIP Cicely Tyson


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Legendary actress Cicely Tyson passed away today at the age of 96.

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In the mid 1970s, when I was about 12 and pretty naïve about television, I saw Cicely Tyson in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" and vividly remember her wrinkled face as the elderly Pittman.

Later that year I saw her win the Emmy for that performance, and when she got up to accept the award, I was startled to see she was actually a young(ish) woman!  I was completely fooled by the makeup...

Of course I saw her again a few years later in "Roots" but I don't recall if I was aware at the time she was the same actress as I'd seen before.

I've not been much for movies or tv in recent decades so it's possible those are the only two times I saw her.

RIP

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